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Industrialization: When workers and immigrants from other countries moved into urban areas (cities) and began to work in the factories. This began in the U.S in the 1870's.

rural: farm area

urban: city area

suburban: area on the outskirts of the cities

tenement houses: Crowded apartment buildings where many people lived during the industrial revolution

entrepreneur: someone who owns their own business

corporation: new businesses needed money, a corporation was one way to get money,the corporation sell shares of their company called stocks and if they do well the share owners make profit

laissez faire: the government allows business owner to do as they choose

Jp Morgan: bought carnegie steel from Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie: owner of carnegie steel

John Rockefeller: Owner of Standard oil Company

Transcontinental Railroad: A railroad that crossed all the way across the U.S

labor union: a group of workers who bargain for better wages and working conditions

strike: a work stoppage

strikebreakers: people hired to take place of the workers on strike

The Knights of labor: Began in 1896 by Uriah Stephans

The american federation of labor: started in 1886 by Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers: an american labor union leader

the haymarket square bombing: Chicago, 80,000 people went on strike, Fights broke out, police were called, police killed some people, a person through a bomb and killed more people

The Great Migration: When many african americans began to move into the cities in the north for jobs and avoid the racism that was given to them in the south

Harlem Renaissance: in Harlem many African americans became very talented writers poets musicians, entertainers and scholars

Henry Ford: invented model t and assembly line

Jim Crow laws: laws set after the cold war to segregate whites and blacks mostly in the south,

plessy v. ferguson: separated but equal was constitutional

union: the state of being united or joined together

Banking Mogul: an important and powerful person in banking

steel monopoly: not having any competition in steel

Pittsburgh: got its nickname from andrew carnegie its called the steel state

Monopolies in oil refinerys: when there's no more competition in the oil refinery business

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