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Soc St Ch 9/Part 1

Campbell Ch. 9 Test Review/Part 1

Vocabulary Terms/ConceptsDefinition
Thomas Edison invented lightbulb
Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone
Wright Brothers 1st airplane flight
Andrew Carnegie built steel mill and made steel using a new process
"Mother Jones" fought to end child labor
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
monopoly a company that controls an entire industry
John D. Rockefeller started an oil-refining business
shareholders investors who own a share of a company
sweatshop small, crowded factory where people work in unsafe conditions
Ellis Island Immigration station in New York
Angel Island Immigration station in San Francisco
tenement apartment building divided into many small, cramped apartments
settlement house a community center that provides a variety of services to the poor
Jane Addams founded the first settlement house in 1889
Reasons immigrants came to America religious freedom; escape poverty; flee disease; escape economic problems; flee war
slums a poor, crowded section of a city with run-down and unsafe housing
Last two territories to gain statehood Alaska and Hawaii
Some Americans thought the purchase of Alaska was foolish and referred to it as ______________ "Seward's folly"
Three resources found in Alaska fish, lumber, and oil
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