A | B |
Jane Addams | founder of Hull House |
Samuel Gompers | founder of American Federation of Labor |
Ida B. Wells | civil rights leader |
The Wright Brothers | pioneers in aviation |
John D. Rockefeller | founder of Standard Oil Company |
Andrew Carnegie | steel industry |
Thomas Edison | inventor of phonograph and improved light bulb |
Henry Ford | assembly line and Model T |
Theodore Roosevelt | the Square Deal; Panama Canal |
Ellis Island | immigrant check-in station in New York |
Angel Island | immigrant check-in station in California |
tenement | poorly built apartment often used by immigrants |
settlement house | a community center offering services for low income families |
Alexander Graham Bell | telephone |
Joseph Pultizer | journalist; newspaper |