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settlement house
A community
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strike
Workers refusing to work until employers meet their demands.
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Entrepreneur
A person who sets up and runs a business
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Transcontinental railroad
A railroad that crossed the entire continent
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Sky Scraper
Very tall buildings
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Labor Union
A group of workers who join together to improve working conditions
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Free Enterprise
An economic system in which people are free to start and run their own businesses with limited government control
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Tenements
Poorly built apartment buildings
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Regulation
Government controls that were placed to limit immigration
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Collective bargaining
This allows workers and employers to discuss and agree on working conditions
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Advertisement
A public announcement that tells people about a product or opportunity
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John Philip Sousa
Immigrant who wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
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Mamie Tape
A Chinese girl whose fight to attend public school led to a separate school for Chinese children in San Francisco
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Theodore Judah
An engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinenal Railroad
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Big Four
Stanford, Huntington,Hopkins and Crocker
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John D. Rockefella
Built oil refineries and owned Standard Oil Company
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John Roebling
Used steel cables and beams to build suspended bridges
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Thomas A. Edison
Invented the first practical light bulb
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Jane Addams
Started Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
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Samuel Gompers
Labor leader who helped start the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
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Granville T. Woods
Improved an air brake system to stop trains more effectively
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Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
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Andrew Carnegie
Built steel mills and became very weatlthy
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William Jenney
Used steel frames to construct much taller buildings
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Lewis Lattimer
Invented imporoved light bulb filament and an efficient way to produce it
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Yee Fung Cheung
A skilled herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop
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