| A | B |
| 17th Amendment | State senators are elected by the voters instead of state legislatures |
| 19th Amendment | Women's’ right to vote |
| Segregation | Enforced separation of racial groups in schooling, housing, and other public areas. |
| Federal Trade Commission | Set up to control unfair business practices under Wilson. It was not very powerful |
| Booker T. Washington | Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education. He accepted social separation of races. |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African-Americans |
| The Jungle | Book by Upton Sinclair revealing the practices in the meatpacking industry |
| 16th Amendment | Gave the government the right to tax income |
| 18th Amendment | Outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| "Jim Crow" Laws | Regulations passed in the South to institutionalize a system of legal segregation to discriminate against African-Americans. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Passed under Roosevelt to regulate the food and medicine industries. Companies had to list ingredients on packages |
| Reserve Act | Passed under Wilson to regulate the banking industry. Created the Federal Reserve system. |
| Tammany Hall | The name of meeting place of New York’s political machine under "Boss" William M. Tweed |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote The Jungle, a book about the practices in the meatpacking industry |
| Boss William Tweed | He ran the political machine in New york City and was a very corrupt politician |