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Industry & Immigration
Question | Answer |
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slum | poor,crowded section of a city with run-down and unsafe housing |
tenement | building that is divided up into small apartments |
Ellis Island | where European immigrants entered the United States |
Angel Island | where Asian immigrants entered the United States |
settlement house | a community center that provides child care,education and other services to the poor |
Jane Addams | founded the first settlement house |
Andrew Carnegie | businessman who built the steel industry |
John D. Rockefeller | businessman who built the oil industry |
corporations | large business owned by people who invest money in that company |
shareholders | investors in a company |
sweatshops | small factories that are in unsafe buildings and unhealthy working conditions |
labor unions | organization formed by workers to fight for better wages and conditions |
strike | refuse to work |
Mary Harris Jones | labor union leader that protested child labor |
Samuel Gompers | founded the AFL, American Federation of Labor |
federation | organization of several groups |