civil rights
basic legal political and social privileges, such as the right to a fair trial
Great Migration
Between 1916 and 1970, the mass movement of about 6 million African Americans from Southern farming areas to northern cities
diversity
variety within a group
prejudice
unfair, negative opinions about a group of people
oppression
unfair treatment of a person or group by a government
tenement
a building that has been divided into many small apartments
monopoly
a company that has control of an entire industry
labor union
a group of workers, usually in the same type of job, who have united to demand better wages and working conditions
melting pot
a place where Europeans could "melt" old ideas and prejudices and be molded into a new people called Americans
Industrial Revolution
the change from an economy based on agriculture and trade to one based on the manufacturing of goods
mass production
large scale product manufacturing
assembly line
A factory system in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers, each of whom does part of the whole job.
Bessemer process
A method of mass production in which steel is produced.