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Industry & Immigration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| slum | poor,crowded section of a city with run-down and unsafe housing |
| tenement | building that is divided up into small apartments |
| Ellis Island | where European immigrants entered the United States |
| Angel Island | where Asian immigrants entered the United States |
| settlement house | a community center that provides child care,education and other services to the poor |
| Jane Addams | founded the first settlement house |
| Andrew Carnegie | businessman who built the steel industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | businessman who built the oil industry |
| corporations | large business owned by people who invest money in that company |
| shareholders | investors in a company |
| sweatshops | small factories that are in unsafe buildings and unhealthy working conditions |
| labor unions | organization formed by workers to fight for better wages and conditions |
| strike | refuse to work |
| Mary Harris Jones | labor union leader that protested child labor |
| Samuel Gompers | founded the AFL, American Federation of Labor |
| federation | organization of several groups |