Industrial Revelution and Immigration

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Industrial Revelution

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Time period in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation occurred

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Samuel morse

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Inventor who helped develop morse code, which was used to send messages by telegraph

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented the telephone in 1876

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor who had thousands of inventions, but is well known because of phonograph, electric lightbulb, and microphone

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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Brothers who built the first successful airplane in 1903

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Henry Ford

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Entrepreneur and inventor who invented the model T, the first car to be widely used in the U.S.A

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Assembly line

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Method of mass production in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers

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Albert Einstein

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This scientist made most of the important contributions of the 20th century. He warned the president about the possibility of atomic bombs

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Atomic bomb

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Bomb built during WWII that was more powerful than any bomb built before it

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Mechanization

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Using machines to do work

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Monopoly

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A company that has control over a entire industry

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Corporation

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Business owned by investors

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Stocks

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A share of an company that is sold to a investor

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Ellis island

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Island in New York Harbor that was the entry point for European immigrants

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Angel island

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Island in California that was the entry point for Asian immigrants

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Tenements

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Small apartments in a poor section of a city

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Sweatshops

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Factory or workshop where people work under poor conditions

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Prejudice

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Unfair negative opinion about a group of people

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Diversity

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Variety

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Jane Addams

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Founded the country’s first settlement house

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Settlement house

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Community center that offered food, clothing, and basic needs for the poor

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Andrew Carnegie

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Industrialist who made steel a major industry in the United States

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John D. Rockefeller

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Business leader who started the standard oil company, one of the largest monopolies in the United States

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Free enterprise

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Economic system in which people are free to start their own businesses and own their own property

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Urbanization

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Movement of people from rural areas to cities

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Strike

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Refusal of workers to work until business owners meet their demands

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Great Migration

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Movement of millions of African Americans to the northern United States between 1915 and the 1940’s in search of work and fair treatment

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Progressives

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Reformers who worked to start unfair practices by businesses and improve the way the government works

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Muckrakers

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Writer or journalist of the early 1900’s who uncovered shameful conditions in business in other areas of American life

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Meat inspection act

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A progressive reform that allowed government inspectors to check meat and make sure it was safe to eat

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Pure food and drug act

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A progressive reform that helped make medicine safer by requiring companies to tell the truth about their products

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Blue laws

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Laws introduced by progressives in the early 1900’s designed to solve social problems, such as alcohol abuse

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John muir

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Writer and naturalist who wrote hundreds of articles about protecting nature and worked to establish several national parks