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settlement house
community center where people could learn new skills and get help such as food and medicine
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strike
workers refusing to work until employer meet their demands
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transcontinental railroad
a railroad that crossed the entire continent
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skyscraper
very tall buildings
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labor union
group of workers who join together to improve working conditions
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entrepreneur
person who sets up and runs a business
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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 building
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regulations
government controls that were to limit
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collective bagaining
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 childrenn in San Francisco
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Theodore Judah
an engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinental Railroad
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The Big Four
Staford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker
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John D Rockefeller
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 Alva Edison
Invented the first practial light bulb
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Jane Adams
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
Improvd an air brake system to stop trains more effectively
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Alexander Gram Bell
Invented the telephone
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Andrew Carnegie
Built steel mills and became very wealthy
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William Jenney
Used steel frames to construct much taller buildings
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Lewis Lattimer
Invented improved light bulb filament and an efficient way to produce it
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Yee Fung Cheung
a skilled herbalist who cam from China to California where he opened an herb shop
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