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- Edwin L. Drake
- the man who drilled the first oil well in the U.S.; located in Titusville, Pennsylvania
- Bessemer Process
- new way to make steel; developed in the 1850s that led to a dramatic increasing in steel productivity
- Thomas Edison
- self-educated inventor who patented over 1,000 items
- Christopher Sholes
- inventor of the typewriter
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor of the telephone
- Transcontinental Railroad
- a railroad line which stretched across the U.S.
- George M. Pullman
- the man who invented the sleeping car on railroads
- Interstate Commerce Act
- established the right of the federal gov't to supervise railroad activities
- Andrew Carnegie
- Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the railroad
- Vertical Integration
- when a company buys the raw materials, transportation systems, and suppliers needed to manufacture and transport its product
- Ellis Island
- the main immigration station in the U.S. from 1892-1924
- Angel Island
- the primary west coast immigration station
- Nativism
- favoritism given to people born in the U.S.
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- virtually stopped Chinese immigration
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- an agreement in which Japan limited emigration of unskilled workers into the U.S.
- Social Gospel Movement
- an early reform movement which preached salvation through service to the poor
- Jane Addams
- an influential member of the settlement house movement
- Political Machine
- an organized group which controlled a political party in a city
- Graft
- the illegal use of political influence for personal gain
- Boss Tweed
- became head of Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic political machine
- The Gilded Age
- a term used to describe the 1870s-1890s when life was shiny and bright on the outside but corrupt and ugly on the inside
- Progressive Movement
- a movement of the late 19th and early 20th century that sought to correct the social and political ills of the time
- Prohibition
- to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol
- Muckrakers
- journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life
- Robert M. La Follette
- Republican governor from Wisconsin who led progressive reforms against business
- Seventeenth Amendment
- passed in 1913 that allowed the people to elect their state senators
- Susan B. Anthony
- a leader in the suffrage movement
- Upton Sinclair
- wrote The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry
- Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
- became president in 1901 when McKinley was assassinated and was the first progressive president
- Suffrage
- the right to vote
- Square Deal
- president Teddy Roosevelt's plan to see that common people were not victimized by business and politicians
- Meat Inspection Act
- part of Roosevelt's Square Deal that set cleanliness and inspection requirements for meatpackers
- John Muir
- conservationist who persuaded Roosevelt to begin the National Park System
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909 and its goal was full equality among races
- W.E.B Dubois
- helped establish the NAACP and was in favor of voluntary segregation