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 |