Vocabulary
A person who moves from another country
Immigrant
This inventor used dots and dashes to send messages via telegraph.
Samuel Morse
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Name the four reasons immigrants would come to America
A term that would be used if a person spoke badly against their company and couldn't get a job because of it.
Blacklisted
This man had a monopoly on oil and founded Standard Oil Company.
John D. Rockefeller
To be bribed to do something wrong or illegal
This inventor created over 500 ways to use the peanut, as well as a way to save crop soil by rotating crops.
George Washington Carver
Why did immigrants often live in communities with others from their home country?
A labor group that did not allow African Americans, unskilled workers, or women.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Laws that restricted companies from selling shares to their friends to lower prices and beat out competition.
Anti-trust laws
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A hot, cramped workshop
This inventor created the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
Name the place an immigrant would go first when they arrive in New York City during the 1800s.
Ellis Island
The labor union that allowed all races/genders and unskilled/skilled workers.
Knights of Labor (KoL)
This business owner had a monopoly on steel.
Andrew Carnegie
To stop working or doing something to force a superior to negotiate with people
Strike
Thomas Edison
Name the type of living quarters an immigrant in the city was most likely to live in with many other people. A crowded, broken-down apartment.
Tenement
This labor union got Congress to pass labor laws that shortened work days to 8 hours.
National Labor Union (NLU)
This business owner was so rich from banking that the US Government borrowed money from him.
J. P. Morgan
A group of workers banding together to fight for their rights
Union
This pair of brothers is credited with creating the first airplane. (First and Last Names)
Orville and Wilbur Wright
This group of people often faced prejudice and were wrongfully blamed for poverty, crime, and lack of jobs.
Immigrants
Children (child labor)
This business owner had a monopoly on steamboats and ferries at first, but later had a railroad monopoly.
Cornelius Vanderbilt