| A | B |
|---|
| Booker T Washington | founder of Tuskegee Institute |
| scabs | nickname given to people that crossed picket lines to take striking workers’ jobs |
| spoils system | practice of “repaying” political supporters with government jobs |
| Gilded Age | name given the late 1800s because greed and poverty lay just below a surface of wealth and prosperity |
| W. E. B. duBois | believed African Americans should strive toward higher education and political participation to achieve equality |
| Horatio Alger | wrote popular “rags to riches” stories in dime novels |
| steerage | cheap accommodations on steamships where many immigrants traveled |
| tenements | dark crowded apartments that provided housing for immigrants and industrial workers |
| Jim Crow laws | laws in the South enforcing racial segregation |
| graft | using one’s political office or connections to get money dishonestly |
| Ellis Island | immigrantion processing center in New York |
| Angel Island | processing center in San Francisco |
| nativism | favoring those born in the US over immigrants |
| xenophobia | overwhelming fear or paranoia of immigrants |
| vice | immoral or sinful activities |
| Pendelton Act | established a system for hiring government workers based on experience & merit |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | said that "seperate but equal" facilities were constitutional |
| dime novels | cheap paperback books |
| ghettos | ethnic neighborhoods |
| vaudeville | popular family-friendly variety shows |
