Vocabulary
Inventor of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
San Francisco Bay immigration station for Asian immigration
Angel Island
Neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing.
Slum
This person learned how to make a safe, steady light bulb and invested a system to deliver electricity to buildings.
Thomas Edison.
Industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s produced an American what? (Initials are MC)
mass culture
Ability to read and write.
Literacy
Labor leader, founder of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gomper.
Person who buys something
Consumer
This was a national organization of unions that used negotiations, strikes, and boycotts to achieve its goals.
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Booker T. Washington founded this institute to teach African Americans that would help them achieve economic security.
Tuskegee Institute
People who believes in a society that has no government at all.
Anarchist.
New York Harbor immigration station for European immigrants
Ellis Island
Live entertainment that featured song, dance, and comedy.
Vaudeville
This person gained control of the oil industry by putting his competitors out of business.
John D. Rockefeller
Political machines such as this hall demanded bribes and used threats to affect government actions.
Tammany Hall
A business that gains control of an industry by eliminating other competitors.
Monopoly
Freedom form time-consuming duties
Leisure.
Growth of cities resulting from industrialization.
Urbanization
What did Jim Crow laws do?
The separated white and black people in public places.
How did Jane Addams improve urban life?
She founded a settlement house in Chicago to help the needy.
Lynch
Laws enacted in Southern states designed to separate white and black people.
Jim Crow
Type of music that blended African-American songs and European musical forms.
Ragtime
How do monopolies harm the consumer?
The eliminate competition and allow for higher prices.
What happened as a result of the Haymarket affair