| A | B |
| John Spargo | wrote 'Bitter Cry of Children' |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote 'History of Standard Oil Company' |
| The Grange | union of farmers |
| Jane Addams | founder of Hull House |
| Lincoln Steffens | wrote 'Shame of the Cities' |
| Carry Nation | fought for temperance with bible & ax |
| Jacob Riis | wrote 'How the other half lives' |
| William Jennings Bryan | Cross of Gold Speech |
| William McKinley | won election of 1896 |
| Susan B. Anthony | fought for women's suffrage |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote 'The Jungle' |
| Free & unlimited coinage of silver | platform of 1896 Democratic Party |
| American Federation of Labor | labor union founded by Samuel Gompers |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Hull House | helped immigrants & poor living in slums |
| temperance movement | fight to ban sale & distribution of alcohol |
| 'History of Standard Oil Company' | exposed Rockefellar corruption |
| 'Bitter Cry of Children' | exposed young boys working in coal mines |
| 'Shame of the Cities' | exposed government and voting corruption |
| 'How the other half Lives' | exposed tenement conditions |
| 'The Jungle' | exposed horrible meatpacking conditions |
| looked out for the farmers | Populist Party |
| reasons for low wages | depression, immigrants, competetive market, power of employers |
| decline of Knights of Labor | loss of RR strike, Haymarket riot, mismanagement, AFL |
| American Federation of Labor | wanted shorter hours, higher wages, child labor laws, better conditions |
| barbed wire | invented by Joseph Glidden |
| oil drilling methods | invented by Edwin Drake |
| air brakes on trains | invented by George Westinghouse |
| Telegraph | invented by Samuel Morse |
| 'What hath God wrought?' | first morse code message |
| telephone | invented by Alexander Grahamn Bell |
| Bessemer process | made it possible to produce large amounts of steel |
| vacuum cleaner | James Murray Spangler |