| A | B |
|---|
| rural | the countryside |
| urban | city-like |
| labor unions | a group of workers who push for better working conditions |
| suspension bridge | structure that connected Brooklyn and NYC that is suspended over water |
| Ellis Island | place where immigrants stopped before entering America |
| tenements | poorly built apartment buildings |
| sweatshops | places where workers were paid poor wages and worked in unhealthy conditions |
| strike | when workers stop working and say they will not start until they get what they want |
| Lewis Latimer | improved Edison's light bulb |
| J.P. Morgan | banker who made money by lending money to big companies and by buying and selling stocks |
| Samuel Gompers | helped form one of the first labor unions |
| Theodore Roosevelt | supported laws to protect workers from dangerous conditions, and became governor of NY |
| Lillian Wald | nurse who went to tenements to help sick people |
| Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | designed the Statue of Liberty |
| Emily Roebling | would give instructions to the workers on the Brooklyn Bridge because her husband was hurt |
| John Roebling | prepared plans for the Brooklyn Bridge |
| Hetty Green | made a fortune buying and selling stocks and land |
