| A | B |
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| Patronage | government jobs or favors are given out to political allies and friends |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | made sure the railroads charged fair rates for all |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forming trusts |
| Inflation | an economic situation where there is ore money of less value |
| Deflation | a decline in the volume of available money or credit that results in lower prices, and therefore, increases the buying power of money |
| Grange | the organization formed in 1867 to fight the loneliness of farm life and improve farming methods |
| Panic of 1893 | an economic crisis that began after the Philadelphia and Reading Railroads declared bankruptcy |
| Sharecropper | a person who grows crops on someone else's land, then pays a part of that crop to the owner |
| Poll Tax | money tht must be paid in order to vote |
| Segregation | the practice of keeping different races or groups of people apart |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws made by southern governments to promote segregation |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | a Supreme Court decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." |
| W.E.B. DuBois | one of the major founders of the NAACP; believed in equality of the races |
| Populism | a 19th century political movement seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers |
| William Jennings Bryan | a Congressman from Nebraska; three-time presidential candidate |
