Alex Karlsson

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 buisness

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 buisnesses with limited government control

poorly built apartment buildings

government controls that were placed to limit immigration

this allows workers and employers to discuss and agree on working conditions

a public announcment that tells people about a product or oppertunity

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

used steel cables and beams to build suspended bridges

invented the first practical lightbulb

started Hull House, a settlment house in Chicago

labor leader who helped start the AFL ( American Fedoration 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 conduct much taller buildings

invented improved light bulb filament and an efficiant way to improve it

a skilled herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop