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| tenement | a run-down, unsafe apartment house in a poor neighborhood |
| sweatshop | a factory where workers are employed for long hours with little pay and dangerous conditions |
| captain of industry | a business leader whose means of getting rich results in a benefit to the country or society |
| industrialization | the process by which a country changes from mostly farming to machine-produced goods |
| monopoly | a company having exclusive control over the supply of a good or service |
| robber baron | a business leader who uses dishonest means to get rich |
| urbanization | the process by which more and more people come to live in cities |
| skyscraper | multi-story building made possible at the Turn of the Century by the invention of elevator brakes, cheaper steel and water pressure |
| corporation | a company partly owned by regular people who invest in it through stocks and shares |
| Turn of the Century | time period of booming industrialization in the United States, between approximately 1885-1915. |
| gilded | something covered with a thin layer of gold to give an expensive, deceiving appearance |
| push factors | reasons people feel forced out of their countries, such as war, poverty, and lack of space |
| pull factors | reasons that immigrants are attracted to the United States, such as jobs, freedom and space. |
| labor union | organization formed to protect workers' rights and bargain for better working conditions |
| the Gilded Age | nickname for the U.S. at the Turn of the Century, based on the illusion of wealth, jobs, opportunities and conveniences |
| Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the telephone |
| Andrew Carnegie | businessman who dominated the steel industry |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the safe, steady electric lightbulb |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | businessman who dominated the shipping and railroad industries |
| J.P. Morgan | businessman who dominated the banking and finance industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | businessman who dominated the oil industry |
| Homer Plessy | he challenged the Separate Car Act of Louisiana in 1892 |
| Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegraph |
