Social Studies AG

A community center where people can 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 discuss and agree to 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

Standford,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 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 an efficient way to produce it

A skilled heralist who came from China to California where he opened an herb shop