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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| patents | government documents giving inventors the sole right to make or sell their invention for a certain time |
| Thomas Edison | the inventor who found many ways to use electricity and he received more than 1000 US patents. invented the electric light bulb |
| Plessy V Ferguson | 1896 supreme court case that supported racial segregation and public institutions |
| John Rockefeller | he controlled the oil industry in the late 18000s through the standard oil trust |
| Andrew Carnegie | he controlled the steel industry in the 1800s by purchasing the means of steel production and selling it cheaper |
| monopoly | a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry |
| trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry |
| the gilded age | term for the 1800s era of wealth, corrupt politics, and widespread poverty |
| socialism | economic system where work and profit is shared and the members of a society are equal owners of the businesses |
| Eugene V Debs | president of the American Railway Union jailed over the 1894 Pullman Strike |
| AFL | national organization of labor unions founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers |
| social gospel movement | reform movement led by Protestant ministers to abolish child labor and improve the lives of the poor |
| Jane Addams | co-founder of a Chicago settlement house and maker of laws to protect women and workers and outlaw child labor |
| Ellis Island | the first stop in the US for most immigrants coming from Europe |
| Angel Island | the first stop in the US fro most immigrants coming from Asia |
| WEB Du Bois | 1909 Harvard scholar helped found the NAACP with the Talented Tenth led a fight against segregation |
| NAACP | organization that played a major role in the ending of segregation in the 20th century |
| mass culture | a common culture experienced by large numbers of people which education helped create |
| ragtime | new music of 20th century was a blend of African American and European music, influenced jazz and blues |
| Alexander Bell | invented the telephone |
| Ida B Wells | journalist who worked to stop lynching |
| Homer Plessy | challenged Louisiana's separate cars act |
| Haymarket Affair | 1886 union protest |
| development of new inventions | What was a major cause of rapid growth of industry? |
| cut the cost of steel | Why was the development of the Bessemer process ? |
| corporation | was a business owned by shareholders |
| to end competition | why would a robber baron form a trust? |
| to find jobs | what was the main reason people moved to cities ? |
| eastern and western europe | Where did most of the immigrants come from? |
| take their jobs | What did native born factory workers fear about new immigrants? |
| corruption | what were political machines known for? |
| jim crow laws | What were african american rights restricted by? |
| the Ku Klux Klan | African amercians still faced violence from who? |
| 1) schaffer ignoring fire 2) schaffer calling wrong switchbox 3) brown refusing to call right switchbox 4) firetrucks going around the whole city to find the fire 5) hose of old truck couldnt reach the fire, people getting singed 6) waterrunningoutin | name 6 mistakes made in the Chicago fire |
| 1891 edison invents kinetoscope 1911 movie business moves to hollywood 1915 people gained respect for motion pictures 1914-1918 hollywood started to support american effort of WW1 1927 soundproof studios built | know what happened in 1891 1911 1915 1914-1918 1927 |
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