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When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
Monopolies
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
progressive era
where most immigrants coming from Europe were processed when coming to America
Ellis Island
Chinese immigrants were processed through what island when they came to America.
Angel Island
someone who has moved from one nation to another with the intention of living there permanently
immigrant
Monopolized the Steel industry in the 1800s
Andrew Carnegie
Monopolized the oil industry in the 1800s
John D. Rockefeller
The 1st invention that made communication easier and faster
Telegraph
Inventor of the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
This tool made it easier to raise/keep cattle in the west
barb wire
They fought and negotiated for better working conditions and better wages for workers.
labor unions
They fought and negotiated for better working conditions and better wages for workers.
strike
Infrastructure that connected the US from east to west
Transcontinental Railroad
The invention revolutionized how we communicate with each other over long distances and who created it
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This tool made it easier to cultivate the soil in the west for farming
The Plow
Created to aid immigrants with resources like housing and education in Chicago
Hull House
the names given to journalists who attempted to expose government corruption
Mudracker
Name of the organization that help fight racial discrimination in the early days of Jim Crow by challenging the system through the courts
NAACP
Which two groups are credited for building the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese and Irish immigrants
This massacre resulted in the final fight of resistance from Native Americans against westward expansion
Wounded Knee
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
open answer
Which company did Ida Tarbell expose?
The Standard Oil Company
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed
The Pure Food and Drug Act
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
US Supreme Court Case that legalized segregation and explain
Plessy V. Ferguson and created the legal precedent of separate but equal which meant that it was legal to segregate the races in public spaces as long as those spaces are equal