UShist Ch 2 Review 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb |
Jane Addams | Founded the Hull House |
John D. Rockefeller | Controlled the Oil Industry and established a trust that monopolized the oil-refining industry |
Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor of the telephone |
Ida B. Wells | Led an anti-lynching campaign |
WEB Du Boise | Founded NAACP and challenged discrimination by using the courts |
Samuel Gomper | President of AFL for 37 years |
Eugene Debs | Led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike |
Andrew Carnegie | Dominated the steel industry |
Booker T. Washington | founded the Tuskegee Institute and advocated for African Americans by encouraging education and training |
Jim Crow | Laws that separated whites and blacks |
Haymarket Affair | bombing at a labor demonstration in Chicago in 1886 |
Department Stores | where people began shopping in the 1800's |
Homestead Strike | Caused by Carnegie cutting wages |
Chinese Exclusion | prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. |
Vaudeville | popular form of entertainment during the American Revolution |
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