| A | B |
| Andrew Carnegie | started a very profitable steel business |
| John D. Rockefeller | own a very profitable oil business |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | accumulated great wealth from railroads and shipping |
| Strike | a work stoppage |
| AFL | American Federation of Labor |
| Henry Ford | invented assembly line for the Model T |
| Booker T. Washington | believed equality could be achieved through vocational |
| W.E.B. DuBois | believed in full rights for African Am. |
| Thomas Edison | invented lighting and uses of electricity |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone service |
| anti-semitism | hatred and persecution of the Jewish people |
| ethnic neighborhood | areas where people shared the same languages and Culture |
| tenement | apartment houses where large families shared one or two rooms often without |
| Political machines | an organization of a political party that granted favors in return for votes |
| Leisure | due to some inventions there was more time for activities of your choice or |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | banned Chinese laborers from coming to the US |
| Assimilation | to slowly lose your own culture and gain the culture of the mainstream population. |
| Urbanization | the movement of people into the cities |
| settlement house | a community center providing services for the poor |
| steerage | the lowest deck of a ship |
| genocide | the deliberate destruction of a racial |
| Emma Lazarus | wrote the poem called the New Colossus |
| Jane Addams | started the Hull Houses in Chicago for the poor |
| Immigration Restriction League | a group that demanded that all immigrants prove their |