Vocabulary Chapter 4
exclusive right to make or sell something
patent
area below a ship's deck where most people made the journey from Europe to the US
steerage
Americans called _____________ believed that immigrants could not learn American customs and should not be allowed into the country.
nativists
How do you think telephones and automobiles changed the lives of Americans during the late 1800s/early 1900s?
answer varies
first national labor union
Knights of Labor
a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply
Bessemer process
old immigrants
Why did immigrants come to the United States
answer varies
______________________ built a lightweight airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Wright Brothers
labor Union led by Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
a period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s
Second Industrial Revolution
poorly built, overcrowded apartments
tenements
What immigration processing center was in New York City?
Ellis Island
The automobile became more widespread after ____________ introduced the Model T in 1908.
Henry Ford
Violent strike at Carnegie’s Homestead steel factory
Homestead Strike
patented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
act banning Chinese people from immigrating to the US for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
What immigration processing center was in California?
Angel Island
By the end of 1879, ______________ had invented the lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
Event that stopped traffic on many railroad lines
Pullman Strike
businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
corporations
the most famous settlement house
Hull House
______________________________ offer immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death.
benevolent societies
____________________ was the creator of Standard Oil Company.
Leland Stanford
riot where eight police officers were killed