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UShist Ch 2 Review 1
UShist Ch 2 Test Review, part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb |
| Jane Addams | Founded the Hull House |
| John D. Rockefeller | Controlled the Oil Industry and established a trust that monopolized the oil-refining industry |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor of the telephone |
| Ida B. Wells | Led an anti-lynching campaign |
| WEB Du Boise | Founded NAACP and challenged discrimination by using the courts |
| Samuel Gomper | President of AFL for 37 years |
| Eugene Debs | Led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike |
| Andrew Carnegie | Dominated the steel industry |
| Booker T. Washington | founded the Tuskegee Institute and advocated for African Americans by encouraging education and training |
| Jim Crow | Laws that separated whites and blacks |
| Haymarket Affair | bombing at a labor demonstration in Chicago in 1886 |
| Department Stores | where people began shopping in the 1800's |
| Homestead Strike | Caused by Carnegie cutting wages |
| Chinese Exclusion | prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. |
| Vaudeville | popular form of entertainment during the American Revolution |