| A | B |
|---|
| urbanization | The growth of cities that resulted from increased numbers of factory jobs. |
| tenements | Apartment buildings in crowded city slums |
| Jane Addams | Founder of Hull House (settlement house) |
| Boss Tweed | Corrupt NYC official |
| new immigrants | Immigrated from Eastern and Southern Europe |
| assimilation | The process of blending into a society |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that kept freed blacks in the jSouth segregated in public facilities. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Court case that allowed states to provide separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. |
| Booker T. Washington | African American who felt the focus should be on education and employment. |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Felt that African Americans whould reject segregation. Founded the NAACP |
| Progressivism | A movement that focused on political and economic reforms |
| muckrackers | Authors who wrote about the evils in American society |
| direct primary | Where voters choose the candidates to run for public joffice |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | It legalized strikes. |
| Federal Reserve Act | Improved the banking system |
| 17th Amendment | Provided for the direct electin of senators |
| 18th Amendment | Ban on alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women suffragist |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Law passed that made it illegal for corporations to from trusts and monopolies |
