Monopoly
A company that controls an entire industry
Corporation
A business that is owned by individuals who invest in that company
Sweatshop
A small, crowded factory where people work in unsafe conditions
Labor union
A group of workers united to gain better wages and working conditions
Strike
A refusal of all the workers in a business to work until the owners meet their demands
Andrew Carnegie
Business leader who developed the steel industry and philanthropist who established many charities
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor of lightbulb in 1879, the phonograph, and more than 1000 inventions
Alexander G. Bell
Inventor who built the first working telephone in 1876
Lewis Latiner
African American inventor who assisted the invention of Bell's lightbulb and Edison's lightbulb/process for making carbon for electric lamps
Elijah McCoy
Inventor of the oil cup called "the real McCoy" in 1872
John D. Rockefeller
Business leader who started the Standard Oil Company
Samuel Gompers
Labor union leader who founded the American Federation of Labor in 1866
Mary Harris Jones
American Labor union leader who fought against child labor and was known as "Mother Jones
Gail Borden
Invented condensed milk in 1856, and concentrated fruit juice in 1862
George Washington Carver
Invented uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes in 1918
Elisha Graves Otis
Invented elevator with emergency brakes in 1852
George Westinghouse Jr.
Inventor of air brakes for locomotive in 1868
slum
a poor crowded section of a city with a rundown and unsafe housing
tenement
an apartment building divided into many small, cramped apartments
Great Chicago Fire
a fire in 1871 that destroyed one third of the city in 24 hours
settlement house
in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a community center for the poor immigrants, and others in need for child care, education, and many more
Jane Adams
reformer who founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889, the first settlement house in the U.S.
Rough Riders
one of Theodore Roosevelt's friends who voluteered to fight in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
Buffalo Soldiers
The name given to the African American Calvary unit that fought in the Plain Wars and Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War
The war in which the U.S. gained control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain in 1898
James Cook
British sea captin and explorer who reached the Hawaiian Islands in 1898
Queen Liliuokalani
Was queen of Hawaii from 1891-1893 who was overthrown by American planters
William McKinley
The 25th president of the U.S. from 1897-1901
George Dewey
U.S. admiral who defwater the Spanish in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the U.S. from 1901-1909 and led the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War
reform
A change to make government or businesses work better
Trust
A secret agreement by leaders of an industry to fix process and end competition
Assembly line
A method of mass production in which th h predict is carried on a moving belt passed workers who remain in place
Conservationists
Person who works to preserve the environment national park
Upton Sinclair
Writer who wrote "The Jungle" in 1906, exposed unsafe practices in the meat-packing industry
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker and writer whose articles described the unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company in 1903
William Gorges
U.S. Army doctor who helped control the spread of Malaria during the building of the Panama Canal from 1904-1914
Orville Wright
Inventor who, with his brother Wilbur, made the world's first successful airplane flight in 1903
Wilbur Wright
Inventor who, with his brother Orville, made the world's first successful flight in 1903
Henry Ford
Automaker who introduced assembly line mass production top the auto industry
John Muir
Conservation who worked to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890
Nikolai Tesla
Discovered radio and electric currents (1892)