yo
define assimilation
Individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
who created the telephone
**BONUS** - what did he want people to say once they answered the phone
Alexander Graham Bell
Ahoy hoy!
define isolationism
Policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
who created the assemnbly line
Henry ford
define philanthropist
Someone who gives money away to charity
define eugenics
Belief in the possibility of improving the human population
who created the Bessmer Procces (a.k.a. - steel)
Henry Bessmer
define lynching
Informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgresser, or intimidate
what two things did garret Morgan create
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gas mask and traffic light
define redlining
Refuse a loan to someone because they live in an area “deemed to be poor”
define gild
Cover thinly with gold
who created the light bulb
and whoever created the lightbulb filament
Thomas Edison
Lewis Latimer
**DAILY DOUBLE**
define muckraker
Journalist who is exposed to social and political wrongs
what is the second thing Henry ford created
Model T
define sharecropping
Landowner allows tenant to use land in return for shares of profit
define imperilaism
Policy of extending a country’s powers and influence through diplomacy or military force
what else did Thomas Edison create
the phonograph
define nationalism
Identification with one's own nation and support for itself
who created cosmetics
Madame CJ Walker
***DAILY WAGER***
define union
Association of workers
define Coup d'etat
Seizure and removal of a government and its powers
who created the airplane
wright brothers
define Laizze - Faire Capitalism
Leave it alone capitalism
who is the richest person in all of history... ever
John D. Rockefeller
define yellow journalism
Style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over fact