| A | B |
|---|
| Abolitionist Movement | Sought the end to slavery |
| Temperance Movement | This wanted to make alcohol illegal |
| 13th amendment | outlawed slavery after the Civil War |
| 19th amendment | This granted suffrage to women |
| Frederick Douglass | A leading African American abolitionist |
| Emancipation Proclamation | This decree freed the slaves in the Confederate States during the Civil War |
| 17th amendment | allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators |
| 16th amendment | This created the income tax |
| Jacob Riis | published photos and stories about the urban poor |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | passed as a result of the book The Jungle |
| Pendleton Act | This created Civil Service |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Wrote A Century of Dishonor about the poor treatment of Native Americans |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | This law said that business combinations "in restraint of trade" were illegal |
| Brown v. the Board of Education | This declared school segregation unconstitutional |
| 24th amendment | This made poll taxes unconstitutional |
| Margaret Sanger | Founder of the birth control movement in the U.S. |
| 14th amendment | This said that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen |
| Horace Mann | Helped to create free public schools in America |
| Jane Addams | Founder of the settlement house movement |
| Wagner Act | Gave unions the right to collective bargaining |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Established a federal minimum wage |
| Rachel Carson | Wrote Silent Spring to promote awareness of the dangers of pesticides |
| FDIC | Created to insure people's bank deposits |
| Betty Friedan | Wrote The Feminine Mystique and promoted more rights for women |
| 26th amendment | Gave 18 year olds the vote |
| Roe v. Wade | This legalized abortion in the U.S. |
| Rosa Parks | Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Executive Order #8802 | Issued by Truman, this desegregated the armed forces |
| FICA | The official name for Social Security which gave pensions to retired people |
| Interstate Commerce Commisson (ICC) | Originally created to allow the federal government to regulate railroads rates |
