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593501446 | Sherman Antitrust Act: | An anti-monopoly law that was made by Senator John Sherman | |
593501447 | John Roebling: | The first person to make the steel wire. He helped invent the suspension bridge. | |
593501448 | Elisha Graves Otis: | Invented the elevator. | |
593501449 | Frederick Law Olmstead: | The natural architect who made Central Park in New York | |
593501450 | Louis Sullivan: | First architect of skyscraper | |
593501451 | Frank Lloyd Wright: | Architect who designed the Guggenheim Art Museum, designed progressive, modernist buildings | |
593501452 | James Eads: | Civil War engineer and inventor | |
593501453 | Brooklyn Bridge: | A bridge that was a huge invention in America, one of a kind at the time | |
593501454 | Flat Iron Building: | The first skyscraper that had steel instead of bricks and concrete for a base | |
593501455 | Statue of Liberty: | A gift from France honoring our Democratic society | |
593501456 | Panama Canal: | A canal that allowed boats and ships less time to get from sides of the country | |
593501457 | Frederic Bartholdi: | The architect for the Statue of Liberty from France | |
593501458 | Gustav Eiffel: | Designed skeleton of Statue of Liberty | |
593501459 | Joseph Pulitzer: | Raised money in NYC for the base of the Statue of Liberty in NY | |
593501460 | Emma Lazarus: | Wrote the inscription on the Statue of Liberty | |
593501461 | Andrew Carnegie: | Had a monopoly over steel and was one of the biggest business owners and powerful men in the US, he gave away lots of his money when he became older | |
593501464 | Homestead Steel Mill: | One of the first steel mills created in America, had very hard working conditions for workers and little pay | |
593501466 | Pinkerton Detectives: | Were hired by McCormick to protect him against unions and riots from unsatisfied workers, they shot some of the workers. Rent-a-cops. | |
593501468 | Rockefeller: | The owner of Standard Oil and monopolized the oil industry | |
593501469 | Lyman Frank Baum: | Was an unsuccessful man until he wrote the Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
593501472 | J. P. Morgan: | A very wealthy banker who was leant the US Treasury money so the US wouldn't go into bankruptcy | |
593501474 | Monopoly: | Complete control over certain industry by one company or individual | |
593501475 | Trusts: | When competing companies join together to have control over an industry | |
593501477 | Capitalism: | Not caring about anything but money | |
593501479 | Tom Watson: | Started the people party and was skilled lawyer, was bigot and a white supremist in later life | |
593501481 | People's party: | Political Party started by Tom Watson, that wanted rights and equality | |
593501483 | Populists: | Represents individual people, same thing as the People's Party | |
593501485 | William Jennings Bryan | Was a dominant force in the Liberal (evil) party | |
593501487 | KKK (connected to Tom Watson how?) | A white supremacist group hate group that committed many lynches, T. Watson became affiliated with them in later life | |
593501488 | Montgomery Ward | Sent out the first mail-order catalog | |
593501490 | Cyrus McCormick | Invented the reaper which helped small time farmer, was a good guy but not after he got big | |
593501492 | Haymarket Riot | Was working conditions riot, in which there was bombing | |
593501494 | Strikes | When worker refuse to work | |
593501496 | Unions | groups of worker that will act together for larger and more effective strikes | |
593501498 | Sam Gompers | Cigar maker and founder of the Cigarmaker's Union, and the AF of L or American Federation of Laborers | |
593501499 | AFL (American Federation of Laborers) | A group that Sam Gompers helped create to fight against bad working conditions (only skilled workers) | |
593501502 | The Everglades | An area in florida that is a rain forest in is protected by national park status but was mostly destroyed before | |
593501504 | Mother Jones | Had hard times in previous life which made her fearless, mother jones fought for childrens rights and eventually helped get laws passed so that kids had to go to school. | |
593501505 | Chicago Fire | A fire started by a cow kicking over a lantern and burned almost all of Chicago, started fire safety laws | |
593501507 | Bread & Roses strike | A strike that wanted higher wages so they could buy what they needed and have a little more | |
593501509 | Wobblies/ IWW | A union that fought for working conditions not only for the skilled workers, but also for the non-skilled workers (unlike the A.F. of L) | |
593501512 | Big Bill Hayward | founder(ish) of the wobblies | |
593501513 | Margret Sanger | Birth control activist | |
593501514 | 4th Estate | The media which was considered a fourth political party because it had a say in everything | |
593501515 | Ida Tarbell | A Muckraker, hired by Sam Gompers | |
593501516 | Muckrakers | Reporters who exposed that bad that the US would (sometimes) try to hide by writing for magazines and such | |
593501517 | Sam McClure | A muckraker who | |
593501518 | Upton Sinclair | Wrote "the jungle" about the meat packing industry | |
593501519 | Lincoln Stevens | Muckraker | |
593501520 | John Muir | A nature guy, who helped start national park formation | |
593501521 | Jacob Riis | Another muckraker | |
593501522 | Spanish-American War | A war with spain over the islands near Jamaica | |
593501523 | Jane Addams | Would move into the slums of Chicago to see the conditions people there were living and opened a house that sheltered and fed the homeless and needy..Later won nobel peace award | |
593501524 | Henry Ford | Made the first affordable car to the general public called the Model T. Helped industrialization with cars for quicker transportation | |
593501525 | Wright Brothers | Invented the first "flying machine" | |
593501526 | Teddy Roosevelt | A very good president who helped build national parks |