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SS vocabulary
| Term | Deffinition |
|---|---|
| sweat shop | a place where people work long hours for low pay in poor conditions |
| labor union | an organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members |
| entrepreneur | person who starts a business to make a profit |
| textile | a woven or knit cloth |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. |
| John D. Rockefeller | founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877) |
| Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) |
| Gilded Age | time when economy was expanding |
| Frank Sprague | inventor of the first electric streetcars |
| Frank and Charles Duryea | built first working car |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) |
| William Randolph Hearst | founder of leading newspaper chain in the U.S. |
| J.P. Morgan | banker who invested in railroads and steel mills |
| Samuel Gompers | founded American Federation of Labor |
| Henry Frick | American indust. finacier |
| Homestead Strike | strike for higher wages |
| George Westinghouse | inventor and entrepreneur |
| assimilate | adopt the ways of another culture |
| detain | keep/prevent from leaving or arriving when expected |
| naturalize | foreign to citizen |
| quota system | limited amout of immigrants allowed in U.S. |
| green card | says foriegn person can work/live in the U.S. |
| tenement | large building with rooms for rent |
| etnic group | group with the same culture religion or language |
| Immigration and Naturilization Service | enforced laws for add. of a foriegn born |
| prejudice | unfair feeling of dislike for group/person |
| angla saxon | peson whose ancestors are english |
| new immigrants | immigrants from europe |
| old immigrants | immigrants from N and W europe |
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