social_studies
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sallypearl on February 22, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 McCoy | oil cup |
| Knight | flat-bott0med paper bags |
| Bell | Telephone |
| Edison | Electric light bulb, phonograph |
| Corporation | a business in which many people own shares, or parts, of the business |
| monopoly | a company that has no competition |
| Philanthropist | a person who gives money to projects that help other people |
| strike | the stopping of work by workers |
| American Federal of Labor | an organization of workers originally headed by Sameul Gompers that tried to improve pay and working conditions for its members |
| Immigrants | Millions of these people came to United States for jobs, to escape war or persecution, and to find greater political freedom |
| Ellis Island in New York City | Immigrants were processed when entering from the East |
| Angel Island in San Francisco | Immigrants were processed when entering from the West |
| dangerous, noisy and dirty | Conditions that immigrants had to work in with long hours and little pay |
| Newcomers | lived in crowed and unsafe tenements |
| prejudice | Immigrants faced this due to their race |
| Immigrants helped the U.S. grow by | constructing railroad tracks, digging in the coal mines, and working in factories |
| Statue of Liberty | the friendship between nations, hope for immigrants, and freedom for all. Located in New York Harbor |
| Urbanization | Growth of cities |
| Reformers | Jane Addams helped city people find jobs and places to live. She founded Hull House, community center. |
| Industrialization | Growth of Industry |
| Austin Peay | create Tennessee's first state park and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park |
| Anne Dallas Dudley | Tennessean who was a leader in the women's suffrage movement |
| NAACP | founded to work for equality for African Americans |
| Great Migration | movement of millions of African-Americans from the South to the North for jobs. |
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