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| African American inventor who played a key role in improving pratical electrical lighting. He was employed by Thomas Edison as an assistant. |
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| Inventor of the electric lighbulb and many other devices |
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| Inventor of the telephone |
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| Founder of the Standard Oil Trust. He was known as a robber baron, and the head of a monopoly. |
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| Founder of the Standard Oil Trust. He was known as a robber baron, and the head of a monopoly. |
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| a business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
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| built the US Steel industry by making the best and cheapest product. |
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| Late 1800s era of fabulous wealth. |
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| governemnt 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 investors who buy part of it through shares of stock. |
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| a 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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| urban reformer and suffrage leader who founded Hull House |
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| settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago |
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| reforms based on Christian values |
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| New York political machine |
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| growth of cities resulting from industrialization |
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| Place where workers labor long hours under poor conditions for low wages |
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| run-down and overcrowded apartment houses |
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| neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing |
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| neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing |
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| organization that controls a local government |
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| laws enacted in Southern states designed to separate white and black people |
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| African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching |
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| 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the legality of segregation |
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| African-American leader who did not believe in challenging segregation |
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