Social Studies Chp. 18
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- Mark Twain pen name
- Samuel Clemens
- monopoly
- a company that controls all buisnesses in a particular industry
- by 1900
- half the newspapers in the world were printed in U.S.
- Alexander Bell
- invented the telephone
- assimilation
- becoming part of another culture
- Joseph Pulitzer
- created the first modern mass-circulation newspaper, New York World
- 2/3 immigrants
- settled in cities
- In ethnic neighborhoods
- immigrants could speak their language and celebrate traditional holidays
- Westward Expansion
- made raw materials readily avaliable
- bridges and public transportation
- helped speed up the growth of suburbss
- Bessemer process
- allowed people to make stronger steel at a lower cost
- corporation
- buisnesses owned by many investors
- nativists
- sought to preserve the country for native born Americans
- John Rockefeller
- created a trust in the oil industry
- by 1918
- all children had to go to school
- altruism
- giving to others
- entrepreneur
- someone who sets up a buisness to make a profit
- yellow journalism
- writing style originated from New York Times
- spread of education and urbanization
- caused the nespaper boom
- jobs, industry, excitement
- people were attracted to cities because of
- Andrew Carnegie
- steel magnate, donated money to charities
- Thomas Edison
- opened first electrical power palnt in NYC, 1882
- Mark Twain
- captured dialect of south through his stories
- Jane Addams
- opended the Hull House
- realists
- writers that try to show life as it is
- 1917 law
- Congress passed a law that denied entry to immigrants who could not read their own language
- Russian Jews suffered from
- religious presecution form government
- states improved schools
- because of heed of educated workforce
- urbanization
- the rapid growth of city populations
- bleak
- tentament life was
- patent
- documents giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
- The Chautauqua Society
- offered summer school for Bible teachers and gave lectures to the public
- Many Americans associated
- imigrants with anarchy, violence, crime
- universities
- offered low-cost or free higher education
- collective barganing
- unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
- tentaments
- buildings divided into many tiny apartments
- many bestsellers were
- paper backs about the "Wild West" or fairytales
- trust
- a group of corporations run by a single board of directors
- employment opportunities
- a reason for migration
- police, fire station, sanitary station
- cities provided
- compulsory education
- have to go to school untill age 16
- Many Mexicans
- were driven from heir homes because of political unrest (revolution)
- Eastern and Western Europeans
- were the largest population of immigrants
- oil refining methods
- crude oil refined into lubricants for machines and gas to power engines and cars
- wealthy citizens funded
- the building of libraries in cities and towns
- hospitals, clinics, food
- religious groups provided
- government policies
- congress gave land grants and other subsidies to railroads / kept tariffs high made foreign goods expensive
- settlement houses
- reformers provided/centers for offereing help to the urban poor