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Industrialization: When workers and immigrants from other countries moved into urban areas(cites) and began to work in the factories. The Began in the US in the 1870's.

Rural: pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas

Urban: City Area

Suburban: Area located on the outskirts of the cities.

Housing: Tenement houses crowded apartment building where many people loved during the industrial Revolution

Entrepreneur: A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.

Corporation: New businesses needed money to start up.

Monoply: No competition in a busines.

J.P. Morgan: Great business man, Bought many businesses.

Andrew Carnegie: Poor, Educated himself, became a millionaire. Steel Monopoly.

John Rockefeller: Ambitious. Great organizer. Cleveland is where he started his all oil business.

Laissez-Faire: Government is hands-off.

Transcontinental railroad: 1869- railroads that stetched all the way across the U.SA.

Labor Union: Group of workers who get together to collectively bargain better wages and working conditions

Strike: Work stoppage.

Strikebreakers: They were hired to take the place of the striking workers.

The Knights of labor: Began in 1869 by Uniah Stephens.
It started off small, but then grew.

Terrence V. Powdery: This union included any workers who wanted to be in it.
This union grew to be over 700,000 members.

The American Federation of labor: Started in 1886 by Sammual Gompers. For skilled workers only.
Skilled workers were ccanpenters, bricklayers, etc.

Samuel Gompers: Formed The American Federation of Labor in 1869, For skilled workers only.
Skilled workers were carpenters, bricklayers,etc.

The Haymarket Square Riots: -Chicago
-80,000 workers went on strike.
-Fights broke out
-Police were called in
-Police killed a couple of the strikers.
-Someone threw a bomb into a crowd and others were killed.

Great Migration: ~Many African-Americans began to move to the cities of the North for
-A. Better jobs
-B. Avoid the racism that existed in the South.

Harlem Renaissance: A. An area in New York City called Harlem.
B. In Harlem, many African-Americans became great writers, poets, musicians entertainers, and scholars.

Henry Ford: Invented the assembly line and Model-T

Jim Crow Laws: Laws passed after the Civil War to segregate whites and blacks in the southern states.

Literacy Tests: Had to pass a reading/writing test in order to vote.

Poll Tax: Pay money to vote.

Grandfather Clause: You could only vote if your grandfather had that right.

Piessy v. Ferguson: A Court case decided in 1896 that said that separate, but equal facilities was Constitutional.

Ku Klux Klan: Formed in the South and West, this was a group that used terror and violence against blacks, Jews, Roman Catholic and all "Foreigners".

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