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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Angel Island | a processing center for immigrants on the West Coast (many Chinese went through here) |
| assembly line | method of mass production in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers |
| Ellis Island | A processing center for immigrants on the East Coast (mostly immigrants from Europe) |
| Food and Drug Administration | The government agency formed during the Industrial Revolution that tests & monitors all food and drugs for safe consumption. |
| mass production | making a large number of goods that are exactly alike |
| monopoly | a company that has total control of a product or service |
| Progressives | reformers who believed that society's problems could be solved by passing laws |
| Samuel Morse | Invented the telegraph, created Morse Code for sending messages on it. |
| tenements | building, especially in a poor section of a city, divided into small apartments with 1 or 2 rooms |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb |
| urbanization | Movement of people from rural areas to cities. |
| Wright Brothers | Invented the airplane (tested at Kitty Hawk, NC) |
| alliance | Agreement between countries to defend one another. |
| Allied Powers | United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia - aka the Good Guys during WWI |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire aka the Bad Guys during WWI |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI |
| Imperialism | A foreign policy where one country extends their rule over foreign countries. |
| Isolationism | Only being concerned or focused on your own country, staying out of political issues between other countries |
| League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson's idea for various nations to come together and work things out peacefully |
| militarism | building and keeping a strong army and navy |
| nationalism | a sense of pride in one's country (patriotism) |
| Panama Canal | Canal through the Isthmus of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - made travel by ship faster. |
| propaganda | systematic effort to spread opinions or belief |
| Spanish-American War | War between United States and Spain in 1898 to free Cuba. The United Stated gained Spanish territories - Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. |
| Treaty of Versailles | A post-World War I treaty that made Germany pay large sums of money to the allies for causing WWI |
| Yellow Journalism | false or exaggerated reporting, designed to sell papers |
| Andrew Carnegie | held a monopoly on steel during the Gilded Age |
| John Rockefeller | held a monopoly on oil during the Gilded Age |
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