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A community center where people could learn new skills and get help such as food and medicine
Settlement house
Workers refusing to work until employers meet their demands
Strike
A person who sets up and runs a business
Entrepreneur
Oil
Petroleum
A railroad that crossed the entire continent
Transcontinental Railroad
Very tall buildings
Sky scrapers
A group of workers who join together to improve working conditions
Labor union
An economic system in which people are free to start and run their own businesses with limited government control
Free enterprise
Poorly built apartment buildings
Tenements
Government controls that were placed to limit immigration
Regulations
This allows workers and employers to dicuss and agree on working conditions
Collective bargaining
A public announcement that tells people about a product or opportunity
Advertisement
Immigrant who wrote “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
John Phillip Sousa
A Chinese girl whose fight to attend public school led to a separate school for Chinese children in San Francisco
Mamie Tape
An engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinental Railroad
Theodore Judah
Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, and Crocker
The Big Four
Built oil refineries and owned Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Invented the first practical light bulb
Thomas A. Edison
Started hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
Jane Addams
Labor leader who helped start the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Samuel Gompers
Improved an air brake system to stop trains more effectively
Grantville T. Woods
Invented the telephone
Alexander Gram Bell
Built steel mills and became very wealthy
Andrew Carnegie
Used steel frames to construct much taller buildings
Williams Jenny
Invented improved light bulb filament and efficient way to produced it
Lewis Lattimer
A skill herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop
Yee Fung Chenng
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Study Guide Chapter 5
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