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He came to the USA as a teacher of the deaf and is also known for inviting the telephone.
Who was Alexander G. Bell?
The process of making an area more urban.
What is Urbanization?
Voluntary organized efforts intended for social useful purposes.
What was Philanthropy?
She was a Settlement Activist, Reformer, Social Worker, Sociologist, Public Administrator and Author.
Who was Jade Addams?
A federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
What was Sherman Antitrust Act?
He was an American inventor who invented the Typewriter.
Who was Christopher Sholes?
An organizations that protects workers economic status and also working conditions.
What was Labor Union?
Crosses a continental land mass.
What was Transcontinental Railroad?
American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the world.
Who was Eugene Debs?
The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to immigrant workers.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This founder of the Standard Oil Company invested in a Cleveland, Ohio refinery in 1863.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
American businessman from the 19th century who where extremely wealthy and also very powerful. Made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trust.
Who was Robber Barons?
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
What was Bessemer Process?
Organize skilled workers into national unions consisting of others in the same trade.
What was American Federation of Labor?
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
What was the Hay-market Affair?
He was a Scottish American who led the expansion of the steel industry in the 19th century.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Railroad changed time by moving standardized time arrangement.
What is the Railroad time?
People who are weak let them die and not help them out because there weak and sick.
What was Social Darwinism?
An organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their craft.
Who was Labor Union?
A massacre, or Battle of Homestead was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle a between strikes and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
What was Homestead Strike?
He was an American business man who built his wealth in Railroads, and Shipping.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The Pennsylvanian was against Andrew Carnegie and steel. Known as the steel strike is a massacre, that lasted 5 months.
What is Homestead Strike?
March 25, 1911 a factory in New York city burned down killing 146 workers who were all Woman.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
He shifted the primary goal American Unionism away from social issues.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
A cowered workplace with very poor, socially unacceptable or illegal working conditions. Some illegal working conditions include poor ventilation, little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting, or uncomfortably high temperatures.
What was the Sweatshop?