| A | B |
|---|
| free enterprise | system in which people are able to start and run their own businesses |
| capital resources | money needed to run a business |
| invest | to buy shares of a business |
| stocks | shares of a business |
| corporation | business that sells shares of stock to investors |
| refinery | a factory where crude or raw oil is made into useable products |
| entrepreneur | person who takes a chance by opening up a business |
| human resource | workers; the labor force |
| strike | stop work as a way to get factory owners to listen |
| prejudice | a negative feeling some people have toward others because of race or culture |
| barrio | a city neighborhood of Spanish-speaking people |
| tenement | poorly built housing in big cities |
| naturalization | way for immigrants to become US citizens |
| jobs | what many people born in America feared |
| skyscrapers | steel framed buildings that helped cities grow upward |
| Ellis Island | entry place into the US for most immigrants from Europe |
| trolley car | invention that helped make it possible for more people to move to suburbs |
| federation | organization made up of many groups |
| railroad | what made many inland cities important centers of industry |
| settlement houses | community centers in cities that helped immigrants learn skills |
| labor union | group of workers who take action to improve their working conditions |
| prejudice, language, low pay | hardships that faced immigrants |
| medical problems | when immigrants arrived, they were sent back because of this |
| better life and jobs | why immigrants came to the US |
| overcrowding | living too close together |
| George Westinghouse | an American inventor who designed an airbrake for stopping trains |
| Granville T. Woods | an African American who improved the airbrake and developed a telegraph system for trains |
| John D. Rockefeller | an American Entrepreneur who joined refineries into the Standard Oil Company |
| Andrew Carnegie | an entrepreneur who helped the steel industry grow in the United States |
| Samuel Gompers | an early labor union leader who formed the American Federation of Labor |
| Henry Bessemer | a British inventor who came up with a new process of making steel |
| transcontinental railroad | a railroad that went across the continent, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts |
| iron | what was used to build bridges, buildings, and railroads into he early part of the Industrial Revolution |
| steel | harder and lasted longer, but it was also more expensive |
| monopoly | almost complete control; Rockefeller had this over the oil business |
| six | the number of time zones in the US |
| Central | The time zone Minnesota is in |
| low wages | the result of so many people looking for work; factory owners hired people for this |
| regulate | to control by law |
| crimes and overcrowding | two problems people faced living in the cities |
| how an immigrant became a US citizen | live in the US for 5 years and pass a test |
| trolley cars and skyscrapers | two inventions that helped the cities grow upward and outward |
| Labor Day | celebrated the 1st Monday in September to honor all working people |
| long hours, no school, and injury | problems working children faced |
| Andrew Carnegie and John De. Rockefeller | important business leaders in the steel and oil industries |
