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Ellis Island |
the entry point for United States immigrants where they were inspected and marked, papers were checked, and where they entered the United States |
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William Tweed |
political boss of New York who used corruption to cheat the city out of over 100 million; he was later arrested and died in jail |
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Samuel Gompers |
organized the American Federation of Labor or AFL |
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JD Rockefeller |
owner of the Standard Oil monopoly and trust |
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Andrew Carnegie |
man who formed a steel empire and controlled all phases of steel production, became one of the world's richest men |
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Thomas Edison |
industrial age inventor who improved the lives of many people by improving the stock ticker and inventing the lightbulb |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt |
man who changed all the railroad tracks to the same gauge and created a mass of railroad called the New York Central |
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Web Dubois |
"breaking the color line" ; he was forceful and wanted the people to be forceful too; started the NAACP |
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William Jennings Bryan |
made the "Cross of Gold" speech to let people know that farmers were important |
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Jacob Riis |
wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to describe the horrible conditions of the tenements |
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Jane Addams |
founded the Hull House to help people help themselves |
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Ida Tarbell |
wrote about the evils of Standard Oil by using and enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Law |
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Upton Sinclair |
wrote "The Jungle" to describe the horrible conditions of meatpacking; forced the Pure Food and Drug Act to be passed |
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Ida B Wells |
wrote the "Red Record" to describe illegal hangings or lynchings |
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George Goethals |
an Army engineer with experience building locks; took over after Stevens resigned |
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William Gorgas |
doctor who helped to eradicate yellow fever by killing the mosquitoes that carried it. ; he directed sanitation efforts in Panama |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
took on the Panama Canal project after the French ran out of money; he was a politician who later became president; also a big conservationist who helped to conserve forests |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps |
builder of the Suez canal, led the Panama Canal project; wanted a sea level canal but had to stop because he ran out of money |
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Franz Ferdinand |
archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause for World War I |
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Woodrow Wilson |
president during World War I; made the Fourteen Points and the Versailles Treaty |
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John J Pershing |
commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) |
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Article 10 |
part of the League of Nations that said that if any nation was attacked, the other countries in the treaty would defend them; the US did not join the League of Nations because of it |
