| A | B |
|---|
| segregation | the forced seperation of people of different races in public places |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendment | gives full rights of citizenship to all people born in the US |
| 15th Amendment | gave African American men the right to vote |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that enforced segregation in the southern states |
| monopolies | a complete control over the entire supply of goods or a service in a particular market |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | law passed by Congress that banned Chinese from immigrating to the US for 10 years |
| Federal Reserve Act | law that created a national banking system that would regulate the economy |
| muckrakers | termed coined for journalists who raked up and exposed corruption and problems of society |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| Progressive Movement | prorams that tried to institute social reform |
| yellow journalism | the reporting of exaggerated stories in newspapers to increase sales |
| Open Door Policy | established by the US to promote equal access for all nations to trade in China |
| League of Nations | coalition of governments designed to find peaceful solutions to disagreements, proposed by Woodrow Wilson |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of artistic achievement during the 1920s |
| FDIC | insures funds that are deposited in case of bank failure |
| Red Scare | a widespread fear of communism and Communists |
| FDR New Deal | Roosevelt's legislative plan to end the Great Depression that included dramatic reforms of government agencies and powers |
| Poll taxes | a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote |
| The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | exposed unsanitary practices in the meat processing industry |
