| A | B |
|---|
| suburb | Residential community surrounding a city |
| tenement | A low-cost apartment building that often has porr standardsof sanitation, safety, and comfort and is designed to house as many families as possible |
| dumbbell tenement | A tenement building that narrowed in the middle forming air shafts on either side, and allowed light and air into the rooms |
| political machine | An unofficial city organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power and usually headed by a single, powerful boss |
| graft | Use of one's job to gain profit; a major source of income for political machines |
| social gospel movement | A social reform movement that developed within religious institutions and sought to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society |
| settlement house | Community center organized to provide various services to the urban poor |
| sociology | Term coined by philosopher Auguste Comte to describe the study of how people interact with one another in a society |
| nativism | A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants |
| temperance movement | An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption |
| prohibition | A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| vice | Immoral or corrupt behavior |
