| A | B |
| Andrew Carnegie | became a mult-millionaire in the steel industry |
| John D. Rockeffelar | became a millionaire in the oil business |
| Jay Gould | known as a robber baron in the railroad industry |
| Terrence Powderly | President of the Knights of Labor |
| Samuel Gompers | President of the American Federation of Labor |
| scabs | workers brought in to break strikes |
| Pinkertons | detective/police force used to break strikes |
| Eugene V. Debs | leader of the American Railway Union during the Pullman strike |
| anarchists | people who oppose governmental rule |
| Henry Frick | He cut worker's wages which lead to the Homestead strike |
| George Custer | "Indian Killer" |
| Chief Sitting Bull | Sioux leader in the Black Hills of South Dakota |
| Chief Joseph | leader of the Nez Perce |
| Geronimo | Apache leader of the desert southwest |
| Populists | the "Peoples Party" |
| William Tweed | political boss of the Tammany Hall |
| Grover Cleveland | first and only President to serve two non-consecutive terms |
| James Garfield | killed by a deranged lawyer named Charles Guiteau |
| William McKinley | assassinated by Leon Czolgosz |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | His first act as President was to remove military forces from the South |