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A commuunity 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
skyscrapers
A group of workers who join together to improve working
labor union
An economic system in which people are free to start adn 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 discuss 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 Philip Sousa
A Chinese girl whose fight to attend public school led to a s separate school for Chinese children in San Francisco
Mamie Tape
An engineer who believed in the idea of building the Transcontinential Railroad
Theordore Judah
Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker
Big Four
Built oil refineries adn owne Standard Oil Company
John D. Rocketfeller
Used steel cables and beams to build suspended bridges
John Roebling
Invented the first practical light bulb
Thomas Edison
Started Full House, a settlement house in Chicago
Ellen Gates Starr
Labor leaded who helped start the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Samuel Gompers
Improved an air brake system to stop trains mroe effectively
Granville T. Woods
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Built steel mills and became very wealthy
Andrew Carnegie
Used streel frames to construct much taller buildings
William Jenney
Invented improved light bulb filament and an efficient way to product it
Lewis Lattimer
A skilled herbalist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop
Yee Fung Cheung
Author
Anonymous
ID
188585
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Updated
2012-12-11T00:55:08Z
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