| A | B |
|---|
| famine | shortage of food |
| Industrial Revolution | farm to factory; hand made to machine made |
| typhoid & cholera | diseases caused by dirty water |
| tenement | run-down apartment building immigrants lived in |
| settlement houses | set up to help immigrants |
| nativists | people who wanted to limit immigration |
| pogrom | massacre of a specific ethnic group |
| Where cities were located | 3 R's; rivers, resources, railroads |
| sanitation | keeping things clean |
| Jacob Riis | wrote about life in the slum in HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES |
| Jane Addams | established the Hull House in Chicago |
| architect | someone who designs buildings |
| no competition does what to prices? | go up |
| conditions in factories | BAD; long hours; low pay; unsafe; no benefits |
| Samuel Gompers | believed in unions; formed the AFof L |
| boycott | refusing to buy a particular product |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | broke up trusts and increased competition |
| labor unions | workers join together to bargain for higher pay and better conditions |
| injunction | court order telling someone not to do something |
| collective bargaining | owners and unions negotiate |
| arbitration | 3rd party helps owners and workers reach an agreement |
| Populist Party | people's party made up of farmers, union members, and reformers |
| Gap between rich and poor | grew during the late 1800's |
| Grangers | farmers' union |
