| A | B |
|---|
| Carpet Bagger | A northerner that traveled to the South |
| Freedmen | Name given to freed slaves |
| Grandfather Clause | A law giving you the same rights as your grandfather |
| Poll Taxes | A fee people had to pay to be able to vote |
| The Reconstruction | The rebuilding of the South by the North and its rejoining the North |
| Sharecropping | A system where Freedmen would rent the land of their former masters, work that land, then give a percentage of their money made to their former masters. |
| Agrarian | Farmland or land outside cities |
| Urban | Dealing or having to do with a city or cities. |
| Economic | Having to do with money |
| Muckraker | An investigative journalist whose uncovering of terrible practices led to the reform of those practices. |
| Vertical Integration | Buying all companies involved in production of one type of product |
| Horizontal Integration | Buying competing companies |
| Monopoly | Another name for horizontal integration |
| Alliances | When two or more countries agree to come to each other’s aid if one of them is attacked. |
| Imperialism | Where one country takes over other countries so that it can use their resources to make itself richer and more powerful. |
| M.A.I.N. | An acronym used to remember the four background causes for World War I: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. |
| Militarism | The belief that countries should maintain a strong military and that they should use that military to exert control or influence over other countries. |
| Nationalism | The belief that people from one country/nation are better than all other countries/nations. |
| Territorial | Having to do with land or lands. |
| Trench | A long hole dug in the ground to protect soldiers from enemy gunfire and bombs. |
| World War I (WWI) | Also known as the Great War and the War to end all Wars, it was the first war to involve dozens of different countries all over the world. |
