| A | B |
|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that create "separate but equal" public facilities after Reconstruction |
| segregation | vocab word that means "separation" |
| 13th, 14th, 15th amendments | gave African Americans rights after the Civil War |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court law - "separate but equal" is allowed in public facilities |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | law passed by Congress that controls big business |
| transcontinental railroad | new form of transportation that moves Americans to the west |
| Plains Indians | this group was greatly impacted by the transcontinental railroad and killing of buffalo |
| Triangle Shirtwaist fire | created safer working conditions after 146 killed in fire |
| quota system in the 1920s | limited the number of immigrants from certain nations |
| Progressive Era | women gain right to vote during this historical period |
| Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" | a book about the meatpacking industry |
| yellow journalism | sensational headlines |
| Spain | yellow journalism encouraged the U.S. to go to war against this European country |
| spark that started WWI | assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
| reparations | payment for war damages |
| Germany | this country in Europe lost WWI and had to pay war reparations |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended World War I |
| jazz music | new music style during the Roaring Twenties |
| Harlem Renaissance | In the 1920s artists brought attention to African American culture |
| stock market crash | this event begins the Great Depression |
