| A | B |
| Marxism | Workers will eventually revolt against factories and take control of the government to redistribute wealth |
| Social Darwinism | Those who can’t adapt to the environment do not succeed in America |
| Realism | Writing about the everyday people in reaction to industrialism to draw attention to dramatic social changes and class differences |
| Free Enterprise | Citizens make business decisions as they see fit |
| Lassie faire | Government has little interference in businesses and economy |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Captains of Industry | Those who accumulated great wealth from the industrial revolution and gilded age |
| Robber Barons | Criticism of those who accumulated great wealth from the industrial revolution and gilded age because it seemed to be at the expense of their workers. |
| Sweatshops | Dangerous factory job with poor conditions that often used children, women and immigrants |
| Newsies | Dangerous job selling newspapers with poor conditions that employed children |
| OSHA | Government department in charge of safety regulations in the workplace. Eventually created many years later due to dangerous work environments such as the triangle shirt factory. |
| Communism | Ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, stateless and revolutionary socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production. |
| Nativists | Political group that was anti-immigration |
| Muckrakers | Journalists that sought to open societies eyes to corruption in business and problems in society |
| Temperance | Movement for prohibition of alcohol to rid society of its evil effects t |
| Populism | Farmers or workers party that was anti big business and immigration. |