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Soc St Ch 9/Part 1
Campbell Ch. 9 Test Review/Part 1
Vocabulary Terms/Concepts | Definition |
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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 |