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| African-American inventor who played a key role in improving practical electrical lighting |
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| Inventor of the electric light bulb and many other devices |
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| Inventor of the telephone |
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| Founder of the Standard Oil Trust |
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| A business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
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| built U.S. steel industry |
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| late 1800s era of fabulous wealth |
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| Government documents giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a specific number of years |
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| A business owned by investoers who buy part if it through shares of stock |
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| Business that gains control of an industry by eliminating other competitors |
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| A legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often within an industry |
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| The pattern of good and bad economic times |
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| An investor who buys part of a company through shares of stock |
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| A period of low economic activity |
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| New York Harbor immigration station for European immigrants |
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| San Francisco Bay immigration station for Asian immigrants |
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| A place where cultures blend |
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| Process of blending into society by adopting the dominant culture |
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| 1882 law which banned Chinese immigration |
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| settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago |
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