Vocabulary
Growth of cities resulting from industrialization.
Urbanization
founded the hull house
Jane Adams
president of the U.S during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
type of music that blended African-American songs and European musical forms
Ragtime
World War II allies
the alliance of Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and others
process of blending into society by adopting the dominant culture
Assimilation
Mexican workers hired to perform farm labor during World War II
braceros
democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression
Franklin R. Roosevelt
business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock
Corporation
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II
Winston Churchill
development of industries in a country of region on a wide scale
Industrialization
built the U.S. steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
New York harbor immigration station for European immigrants
Ellis Island
Italian Fascist dictator
Benito Mussolini
live entertainment that featured song, dance, and comedy
Vaudeville
founder of the Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller
inventor of the famous light bulb and many other devices
Thomas Edison
international peacekeeping body founded by 50 nations in April 1945
United Nations
system of government that is centralized and dictatorial
communism
settlement house founded by Jane Adams in Chicago
Hull House
powerful railroad and bank owner
J.P. Morgan
American Railway Union leader jailed in the Pullman strike in 1894
Eugene V. Debs
October 29th, 1929; millions of Americans went bankrupt
Black Tuesday
Japanese city that was hit with the second atomic bomb on August 6th, 1945
Nagasaki