Famous People
Famous Inventor given credit for the invention of the light bulb.
Thomas Edison
The East Coast Island many European Immigrants were processed through.
Ellis Island
Term used to describe the overtaking of an entire industry by one company.
(Also a board game)
Monopoly
The country in which the Industrial Revolution started.
England
The addition to the US Constitution that gave Women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Billionaire and owner of the most prominent Steel Company of this time.
Andrew Carnegie
The West Coast Island that processed immigrants off the coast of San Francisco.
Angel Island
The term used to describe the billionaire business owners during the Industrial Revolution.
Robber Baron(s)
Due to population growth many American cities started "building up" which eventually led to the creation of these in major cities such as New York and Chicago.
Skyscrapers
The term used to describe the outlawing of Alcohol in the United States.
Prohibition
26th President of the United States known for his efforts in the era of Progressivism.
Theodore Roosevelt
The large oil company owned by John Rockefeller.
Standard Oil
An organization built with the goal of protecting the rights of workers.
Labor Union
One of the major accomplishments during the industrial revolution. This was the largest transportation network in the US and connected from Iowa to California.
Transcontinental Railroad
Inventors must get these in order to keep other people from making the same product.
Patent
Famous Journalist known for his novel "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
A widespread and significant Chicago railroad strike in 1894. Workers walked off the job and eventually disrupted mail delivery.
Pullman Strike
The movement towards the end of the Industrial Revolution that pushed for political and social justice reform.
Progressivism
The term used for journalists during the Progressive Era that worked to expose social injustice in the United States.
Muckrackers
An immigration law that greatly limited the type of immigrants coming into the US specifically from China.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Overshadowed Inventor who created the original designs for the Telephone and discovered a better material for the filament of a light bulb.
Lewis Latimer
Name one of the two major worker unions we discussed in class.
Knights of Labor or American Federation of Labor.
The theory that people and groups of people are under the same laws of natural selection.
Social Darwanism
A gift from another country to America, this structure is given the title "Mother of Exiles" in the poem The New Colossus.
The Statue of Liberty
A law that banned any trust/company from restricting interstate trade. Also used to break up and prevent monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act