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Industrial Revolutio

TermDefinition
Big Business Businesses that grew very large and powerful --> owners became filthy rich, workers stayed poor/made little to no income
Vanderbilt Leader of the railroad industry
John D. Rockefeller Leader of the oil industry (standard oil)
Andrew Carnegie Leader of the steel industry (kinder than the other two)
Monopoly when someone or a company controls the entire market or a good/product
Transcontinental Railroad helped get material like steel moved west for cities -Chinese (west) and Irish (east) -connects the east and west
Massacre at wounded knee u.s. killed 3600 Sioux Indians
Nations infrastructure roads, bridges, railroads, communication, canals
Thomas Edison created the electric light bulb -resulted in a 24 hour economy
Samuel Morse Created the telegraph
Alexander Graham Bell Created the telephone
Urban Slums horrid living conditions in the cities -20+ people in one place -poorly lit
1st wave Irish and Scottish, Americans loved them, spoke English, same religion/beliefs
2nd wave Italian and polish, not popular with Americans, spoke broken to little English, not entire religious/beliefs agreed upon
working conditions overcrowded -12 hour shifts, 6 days a week -children up to the age of five had to work, (women and children had to work) long hours and low pay. dangerous working conditions sweatshops
labor unions AFL- American federation of labor - Samuel Gompers fought for workers rights and better pay/less hours/better work conditions
The progressive era time period where people wanted to improve problems in society
Muckrakers journalists who exposed problems in society
Upton Sinclair Wrote 'The Jungle'
Jacob Riis Published 'How the other half lives'
Ida Tarbell Exposed John D. Rockefeller's corrupt business deals.
Plessy v Ferguson 'separate but equal' 1896 court case that legalized segregation in facilities as long as they were equal
Jim crow laws laws that set up segregated facilities between whites and blacks
NAACP organization that started to fight against segregation and racial discrimination progressive era reforms -D.E.B. Dubois
Initiative if enough citizens sign petitions or male their voices heard, they could force a vote on an issue
Referendum the people get to directly elect/vote on an issue/candidate rather than party leaders
Recall people have the power to remove a public official that is corrupt
16th amendment income taxes
17th amendment direct election of senators by the people
Nellie Bly went undercover as a mental institution patient to see how truly bad it was in there
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