Test review for Big Business & Immigration
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| New Immigrants | Catholics and Jews who came from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 1800's and early 1900's
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| Old Immigrants | Protestants or Catholics who came from Northern and Western Europe in the early and mid-1800's
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| Chinese Exclusion Act | Law banning Chinese Immigration
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| Settlement House | place in cities immigrants could go to take English classes, get job training, day care facilities and get help assimilating into American culture
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| Tenement | overcrowded, run-down apartment buildings
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| Sweatshop | factory where people labor long hours, for low wages in often dangerous working conditions
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| Urbanization | growth of cities due to industrialization
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| Industrialization | growth of factories
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| Hull House | settlement house in Chicago opened by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr
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| stock | share in a company
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| Thomas Edison | invented the 1st practical lightbulb
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| Philanthropist | person who gives away large sums of money to charity
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| Assimilation | process of blending into society
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| Nativism | belief that America should be preserved for Americans, immigrants take jobs from native born Americans and cause crime and violence
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| corporation | business owned by investors
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| Andrew Carnegie | Steel tycoon
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| John Rockefeller | Oil tycoon
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| tycoon | wealthy and powerful business owner
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| monopoly | company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry
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| trust | legal body created to hold stock in many companies often in the same industry
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| strike | when workers refuse to work until their demands are met
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| Labor Union | organization of workers who fight for better working conditions
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| patent | legal government document giving an inventor exclusive rights to his/her invention for a certain number of years
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| Knights of Labor | 1st labor union, comprised of workers from many different trades
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| Haymarket Riot | violent labor dispute in Chicago in 1886, striking workers rallied, a bomb exploded, 7 police killed, police fired into crowd and public opinion turned against unions as a result of this violent event
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