Vocabulary
What is a share of a company?
Stock
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What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telephone
What is an apartment shared by families?
Tenement
Who were often blamed for poverty, crime, overcrowding, and violence?
What is a company that has control of an entire industry? Example, Standard Oil Company
Monopoly
What is when workers refuse to work to try to force business owners to meet their demands?
What did Thomas Edison invent?
Lightbulb
Who is known for building a huge steel empire?
Andrew Carnegie
Immigrands stopped at ___________________ when they came to New York Harbour in the early 1900s.
Ellis Island
What is a group of workers who join together to fight for imporoved working conditions and better wages?
What is an unfair negative opinion about a group of people?
Prejudice
What did George Washington Carver invent?
Immigrants stopped at _________________ when they came to San Francisco in the Early 1900s.
Angel Island
Who founded Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
What is a person who gives money to a business to project hoping to gain a profit?
Investor
What is a business that is owned by investors?
Corporation
Who invented the airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Why did immigrants often live in communities with others from their home country?
It was a way to help make the adjustment to the United States easier.
What was the most common reason for people to move to the United States?
To find political and religious freedom.
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What is a hot, cramped workshop?
Sweatshop
Who invented the automobile?
Frank and Charles Duryea
What were the 3 main goals of labor unions?
1. get higher pay
2. shorter working hours
3. safer working conditions
How did Angel Island differ from Ellis Island?