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History Block 1A
By Kylie Sommer-Kohrt
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History
7th Grade
12/02/2014

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Reasons for Increase in Immigration
Definition
1) Hope for better opportunities
2) Desire for religious freedom
3) Escape from oppressive governments
4) Desire for adventure
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Reasons Why Cities Grew and Developed
Definition
1) Specialized industries
2) Immigration to America from other countries
3) Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities
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Challenges for Industrialization and Urbanization
Definition
1) Overcrowded immigrant ghettos and tenements
2) Political corruption (political machines)
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Efforts to Solve Immigration Problems
Definition
1) Settlement houses such as the Hull house founded by Jane Addams
2) Political machines that gained power by attending to the needs of immigrants (such as jobs and housing)
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Groups of New Immigrants
Definition
Chinese and Irish
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Reasons for the Rise of Big Business
Definition
1)National markets created by transportation (mail order)
2)Captains of industry
3)New inventions
4)Advertising
5)Lower cost production
6)Access to raw materials and energy
7) Availability of work force due to immigration
8) Financial Resources
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John D. Rockefeller
Definition
Captain of the oil industry
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Definition
Captain of the shipping industry
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Captain of the steel industry
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Alexander Graham Bell
Definition
Invented telephones
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Thomas Edison
Definition
Electricity and Innovated the light bulb
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Nikolai Tesla
Definition
Original Inventor of the light bulb
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Mechanization
Definition
Reduced labor needs and increased production
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Effects of Industrialization
Definition
1)Low wages, long hours, child labor, and unsafe working conditions
2)American Federation of Labor and other unions
3)Homestead strike caused a dislike of unions
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
Suffrage leader
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Susan B. Anthony
Definition
Suffrage leader
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The 19th Amendment
Definition
It gave women the right to vote
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Temperance
Definition
It wanted to ban the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States.
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The 18th Amendment
Definition
The time when the shipping, production, and consumption of alcohol illegal called prohibition
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
He believed equality could be achieved by vocational education
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W.E.B. Dubois
Definition
He believed in political, social, and civil rights for African Americans
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Urban
Definition
City
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Rural
Definition
Country
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Ghetto
Definition
Crowded immigrant neighborhood
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Tenements
Definition
Crowded, dirty, unsafe, apartments for immigrants
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Mechanization
Definition
To be done by machine
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Temperance
Definition
Ban on alcohol
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Suffrage
Definition
The right to vote
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Segregation
Definition
Separation by race
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Vocational Education
Definition
Education in trade such as farming
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