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| New invention to make steel. Cut down costs and increased production |
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| Purifies the oil in the oil making process |
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| Invented the steady light bulb |
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| He improved the sewing machine to increase clothing production |
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| Invented the model T 4 wheeled car and came up with the idea for an assembly line production factory |
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| Wilbur and Orville Wright |
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| Made first piloted flight in a gas powered plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
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| Scottish immigrant who started Carnegie steel and bought out competitors |
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| Started standard oil and was successful at combining and consolidating businesses and eliminating competition |
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| The pattern of good and bad times in the economy |
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| A business leader who became wealthy though dishonest methods |
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| A business owned by investors who buy a part of the company through shares of stock |
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| A company that wipes out its competitors and controls the industry |
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| A combo of corps. For the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices of an industry |
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| Person who gives away large sums of money to charity's or the community |
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| Period of late 1800s and early 1900s that was a time of wealth but also increasing number of poor |
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| Places where workers labored long hours under poor conditions and low wages |
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| All members of a society are equal owners of all businesses. Share work and profits |
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| Producing large quantities of goods at a rapid pace |
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| The growth of cities due to the increasing numbers of factory jobs |
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| An apartment house that is usually rundown and overcrowded |
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| Theory that stated that if government left businesses alone and unregulated, they would benefit the nation financially |
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| Outlawed trusts that restrained trade. Was difficult to enforce because it was not clearly written. |
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| Conditions that drive people to leave their country. (bad things) |
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| Conditions that attract people to a new country. (Good things) |
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| Organized massacre of Jews. (Took place in Russia at this time) |
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| Poet who wrote the "New Collossus" at the base of the Statue of Liberty. |
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| Blending into other culture. |
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| Immigrants in the early 1800's from Northern and Western Europe. Easily assimilated because of similar language, religion and race to Americans. |
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| Arrived in late 1800's early 1900's from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia. Difficulty assimilating due to a variety of languages, religions and ethnic backgrounds. |
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| A group of people that share a common culture. |
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| American Protective Association |
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| Group that campaigned to ban immigration if the person was illiterate in their own native language. |
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| Boys that worked in the coal mines for low pay and under dangerous conditions. |
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| Photographed and documented child labor in the early 1900's. |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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| March 25, 1911 - Fire that killed 125 young women in a factory with unsafe conditions and no safety features. |
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| Founded the American Federation of Labor. |
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| Hired to replace striking workers. |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Union for workers that fought for better wages and conditions. Did not allow minorities or women. |
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| Union for workers that allowed women, minorities and unskilled workers. Will eventually fail due to many failed and violent strikes. |
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| Violent railroad strike when wages were cut. State militia brought in to end strike. |
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| Bombing at Haymarket Square |
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| 5 anarchists charged with throwing bomb into a crowd at an 8 hour workday. |
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| State militia in Pennsylvania that broke up the Homestead Strike |
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| List of names passed around by employers warning them not to hire workers that had previously caused a strike. |
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| Court order that bans communication between workers and the union. |
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| When the union workers and employers negotiate and agree upon wages, hours and conditions. |
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| Mix of African - American and European music. |
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| William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer |
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| Leading publishers of newspapers and magazines. |
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| Tax on African Americans to prevent blacks from voting. |
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| Test given to African Americans to see if they could read or write in order to vote. |
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| If ancestor was able to vote then you could vote. |
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| Laws in south to enforce segregation. |
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| Supreme Court case that legalized segregation. |
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| Created Tuskegee Institute to advance blacks economically. |
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| Co-founder of NAACP to reject segregation. |
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