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settlement house
A community
strike
Workers refusing to work until employers meet their demands.
Entrepreneur
A person who sets up and runs a business
Petroleum
Oil
Transcontinental railroad
A railroad that crossed the entire continent
Sky Scraper
Very tall buildings
Labor Union
A group of workers who join together to improve working conditions
Free Enterprise
An economic system in which people are free to start and run their own businesses with limited government control
Tenements
Poorly built apartment buildings
Regulation
Government controls that were placed to limit immigration
Collective bargaining
This allows workers and employers to discuss and agree on working conditions
Advertisement
A public announcement that tells people about a product or opportunity
John Philip Sousa
Immigrant who wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Mamie Tape
A Chinese girl whose fight to attend public school led to a separate school for Chinese children in San Francisco
Theodore Judah
An engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinenal Railroad
Big Four
Stanford, Huntington,Hopkins and Crocker
John D. Rockefella
Built oil refineries and owned Standard Oil Company
John Roebling
Used steel cables and beams to build suspended bridges
Thomas A. Edison
Invented the first practical light bulb
Jane Addams
Started Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
Samuel Gompers
Labor leader who helped start the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Granville T. Woods
Improved an air brake system to stop trains more effectively
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
Andrew Carnegie
Built steel mills and became very weatlthy
William Jenney
Used steel frames to construct much taller buildings
Lewis Lattimer
Invented imporoved light bulb filament and an efficient way to produce it
Yee Fung Cheung
A skilled herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop
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chapter 5
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