StudyGuideChapter5

A community center where people could learn new skills and get help such as food and medicine

Workers refusing to work until employers meet their demands

A person who sets up and runs a business

Oil

A railroad that crossed the entire continent

Very tall buildings

A group of workers who join together to improve working conditions

An economic system in which people are free to start and run their own businesses with limited government control

Poorly built apartment buildings

Government controls that were placed to limit immigration

This allows workers and employers to dicuss and agree on working conditions

A public announcement that tells people about a product or opportunity

Immigrant who wrote “The Stars and Stripes Forever”

A Chinese girl whose fight to attend public school led to a separate school for Chinese children in San Francisco

An engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinental Railroad

Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, and Crocker

Built oil refineries and owned Standard Oil Company

Invented the first practical light bulb

Started hull House, a settlement house in Chicago

Labor leader who helped start the AFL (American Federation of Labor)

Improved an air brake system to stop trains more effectively

Invented the telephone

Built steel mills and became very wealthy

Used steel frames to construct much taller buildings

Invented improved light bulb filament and efficient way to produced it

A skill herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop