| A | B |
| Jane Addams | She and Ellen Gates Starr founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889. |
| Janie Porter Barrett | founded the Locust Street Social Settlement in Hampton, Virginia for African-Americans |
| Mark Twain | ollaborated with Charles Dudley Warner to write a satirical novel called The Gilded Age |
| Boss Tweed | another name for William M. Tweed |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican elected president in 1876 |
| James A. Garfield | this independent candidate and reformer ran for president in 1880 and won |
| Chester A. Arthur | he was nominated as vice-president for James Garfield because he was a Republican and not a reformer |
| Charles Guiteau | he was a mentally unbalanced lawyer who assassinated president Garfield |
| Grover Cleveland | in 1884 he became the first Democrat to win the presidency in 28 years |
| Benjamin Harrison | his grandfather was a president, and he was supported by people who wanted higher tariffs when he became president in 1888 |
| Grover Cleveland | he won the presidency in 1892 and is the only president ever elected for two non-consecutive terms |
| James Pendergast (p. 268) | "Big Jim" was a saloonkeeper who became a powerful politician in Kansas City |
| Thomas Nast (p. 269) | he was a cartoonist who brought down the Tweed Ring and its leader |
| Denis Kearney (p. 259) | he was the founder of the Workingmen's Party and headed the anti-Chinese movement in California |
| Theodore Roosevelt | it was under this president that the Gentlemen's Agreement was developed |
| Prescott F. Hall (p. 258) | founder in 1894 of the Immigration Restriction League |
| Jacob Riis | he was a Danish photographer who became a police reporter and helped uncover horrible living conditions in crowded city tenements |