| Term | Definition |
|---|
| thomas edison | inventor of the lightbulb |
| corporation | an organization owned by many people but treated by law as if it were a single person |
| bessemer process | a new process for making steel cheaper and more efficiently |
| tenements | dark and crowded multi-family apartments |
| political machine | an informal political group formed to gain and keep power in a specific area |
| tammany hall | the New York democratic political machine |
| NAWSA | the organizaion created to help women gain the right to vote |
| temperance movement | the movement dedicated to banning alcoholic consumption and production |
| northern securities | a major holding company that was controlled by a few big time railroad owners |
| united mine workers | the union formed coal miners becase they were upset with their working conditions |
| the jungle | a book written by Upton Sinclair about the slaughterhouses and their awful conditions and manufacturing styles |
| newlands reclamation act | the act that was federal funds that paid for irrigation and land developement projects in the western states |
| dollar diplomacy | a way to increase business in Latin America and help Latin America out of poverty |
| roosevelt corollary | an address to congress to prevent european troops from going to the Carribean or Central America |
| USS Maine | a naval ship docked at a harbor in havana that exploded |
| yellow journalism | propoganda presented by large newspapers to sway people opinions |
| rough riders | the voluntary cavalry in the spanish american war ( Roosevelt used to be in it) |
| anglo saxonism | the belief that english culture should and will control the world |
| Alfred T. Mahan | the naval officer who wrote a book to try and achieve a larger naval force |
| bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI |
| fourteen points | a plan proposed by President Wilson post WWI to uphold global peace and justice |
| League of Nations | an organization to preserve peace thrughout the world it was the only one of the fourteen points plan that made it into the treaty of versailles |
| irreconcilables | US lawmakers and senators that were totally against the treaty of versailles |
| reservationists | the group of senators that was pro treaty of versailles only if article ten was taken out |
| Lusitania | a passanger ship that was sunk by U-boats passing through a warzone |
| war industries board | the board that coordinated the production of raw war materials |
| victory bonds | special donations sent directly to the war funds contributed by american people during WWI |
| national war labor board | the board that prevented strikes from workers that could disrupt the war effort |
| great migration | the migration of African Americans and Hispanics to the northern cities in search of work while the White men were at war |
| vertical integration | a way of producing products more efficiently and cheaper by owning every aspect of production leading up the the final product |
| horizontal integration | many firms engaged in the same type of business combined into one big coorporation |
| trust | a new way of merging businesses that did not violate the laws against owning other companies and creating monopolies.(a legal way of allowing one person to manage another person business |
| sharecroppers | landless farmers who gave up land to afford neccesities |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws created to seperate African Americans and Whites and to keep Whites in power and in charge |
| Ida B. Wells | an African American woman that lead the charge into stop lynching |
| Booker T. Washington | a man that tried to insist it was mor eimportant to achieveing economic goals rather than achieveing political ones |
| WEB Dubois | a man who believed that it was more important to achieve political goals than economic ones and used the procces of agitation to achieve this |
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