| A | B |
|---|
| nativism | Anti-immigration feelings by Americans |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision that made segregation legal |
| Monroe Doctrine | Foreign policy created by President Monroe in 1823 |
| Monroe Doctrine | Foreign policy that stated Europe was to stay out of the Western Hemisphere |
| suburbs | Smaller towns surrounding large cities |
| unwritten Constitution | Customs and traditions in the government, ex: presidential Cabinet, political parties |
| separation of powers | principle that gives the powers of making, enforcing, and interpreting laws to separate branches of government |
| emancipation | The act of setting a person or people free |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Decree by President Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states in 1863 |
| elastic clause | As society advances and changes, the Constitution must be flexible and change |
| isolationism | government policy of staying out of foreign affairs |
| tenement | Extremely poor apartments that were built in cities during the Industrial Revolution |
| suffrage | women fighting for their right to vote |
| Upton Sinclair | Muckraker who exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry |
| popular sovereignty | Votes by people in new territories will determine if new states will be slave or free states |
| imperialism | Stronger nation dominating a weaker nation politically and economically |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Foreign policy created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Foreign policy that made the U.S. the policing power in the Western Hemisphere |
| muckrakers | Journalists such as Jacob Riis who exposed political corruption, health hazards, and other social problems |
| monopoly | Complete control or dominance by a single company |
| trust | group of corporations run by a single board to eliminate competition and control prices |
| trustbuster | person who wants to break up trusts and monopolies |
| anti-trust legislation | laws that break up trusts and monopolies and support competition among businesses |
| laissez-faire | French for "allow to do" |
| laissez-faire | the government will not interfere in the economic affairs of individuals |
| regulations | laws or rules that control businesses and economic affairs |
| urbanization | the movement of people to cities to work in factories |
| rural | living in the country or countryside |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws in the South after the Civil that forced the segregation of the races |
| segregation | forced separation of the races |
