| A | B |
| Louis Sullivan | Early leader of Architecture--skyscraper |
| Daniel Burnham | Chicago architect--Flatiron building |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | Developer of Central Park |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | Brothers who flew the first airplane |
| George Eastman | Inventor of the camera |
| Booker T. Washington | Prominent African-American educator |
| Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute | School headed by Booker T. Washington |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | First African American to receive Ph.D from Harvard |
| Niagara Movement | Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education |
| Ida B. Wells | African-American reformer who tried to end lynching |
| poll tax | Money one had to pay in order to vote |
| grandfather clause | Clause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote |
| segregation | The word used to describe racial separation |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws that helped keep whites and blacks separate |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws |
| debt peonage | A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Owner of the New York World newspaper |
| William Randolph Hearst | Owner of the New York Morning Journal & the San Francisco Examiner |
| Ashcan school | A school of painting that featured urban life and working people with gritty realism |
| Mark Twain | Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| rural free delivery (RFD) | System that brought packages directly to homes |