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| A buyer of goods and services |
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| The ability to read and write |
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| A system of labor where people are forced to work to repay debts |
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| Higher than another in rank, nature or kind |
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| Helped immigrants to find jobs and homes, but were often corrupt. |
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| Usually the first stop for many immigrants arriving in america From Asia |
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| A supreme court decision that allowed Southern states to maintain segregated facilities. |
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| An African American leader who encouraged African Americans to reject segregation. |
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| where consumers could buy everything from clothing to furniture |
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| A type of apartment with minimum standards of sanitation or safety |
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| A movement that aimed to improve the lives of the urban poor |
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| A famous political machine |
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| Term describing those immigrants who came to America after 1900 |
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| Measure that banned Chinese immigration for ten years |
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| Laws that enforced segregation in public places-- schools, trolleys, restaurants etc. |
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| Organization aimed at ending segregation |
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| African-American journalist who led a crusade against lynching |
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| A common culture experienced by many people |
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| A new type of music that emerged around 1900 that mixed african-American and European sounds |
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| Reformers tried to solve what problems? |
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| Problems of poverty and living in slums. Also labor reform |
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| Northern and Western Europe |
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Mostly Southern and Eastern Europe--Jews, Italian, Slavs, Poles, Russians.
Chinese, Mexicans faced severe discrimination-lower wages, peonage |
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| made it easier for people to receive goods by having them brought directly to homes, especially in rural areas. |
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