Newspapers In The 1800's

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an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb

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Thomas Edison ( Light Bulb )

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a Canadian American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891

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James Naismith ( Basketball )

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schools that required children to attend school for a certain amount of hours

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Compulsory schools

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journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

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Yellow Journalism

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A fire that started from a sewing machine and quickly grew, killing over 150 people

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Triangle Fire

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two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903

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Wright Brothers ( Airplane )

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Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell ( Telephone )

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a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk

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Entrepenur

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playing basketball for money

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Professional Basketball

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an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream

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George Eastman ( Kodak Camera )

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an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

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Cyrus Field ( Transantlantic underwater telegraph cable )

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an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, safety standards, and better working conditions.

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Labor Union

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a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

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Strike

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an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated

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Ellis island/Angel island

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an African-American inventor in the shoe industry.

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Jan Matzleger ( Shoe-making machine )

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an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today

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Christopher Sholes ( Typewriter )

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an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production

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Henry Ford ( Assembly line )

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the combining of two different things

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Assimilation

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the increasing number of people that migrate from rural to urban areas

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Urbanization

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the lowest deck of a ship

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Steerage

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a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

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Jane Addams

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a person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy

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Anarchist

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the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.

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Nativist

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a Hungarian-American Jewish newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s

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Joseph Pulitzer

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freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance

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Free Enterprise

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an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "the Great American Novel".

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Mark Twain

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a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people

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American Realism Literature

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a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention

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Patent

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. This idea soon started a popular board game.

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Monopoly

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an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

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Settlement house

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confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others.

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Trust

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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law

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Corporation

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a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

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Tenement

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the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855.

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Bessemer Process

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an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

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John D. Rockefeller

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an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time

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JP Morgan

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a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

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Andrew Carnegie

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an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world

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Standard Oil

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an English-born American cigar maker who became a Georgist labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history

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Samuel Gompers

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the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.

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Knights of Labor

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an Irish-American politician and labor union leader, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s.

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Terence Powderly

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the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

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Haymarket Riot

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an American magazine featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery serve as co-editors

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Mother Jones

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a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.

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Pullman Strike

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a partial refund to someone who has paid too much money for tax, rent, or a utility.

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Rebates

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a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

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Hull House

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a process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements to regulate working conditions.

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Collective bargaining

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the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies

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Vertical integration

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the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

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Yellow Kid

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a very tall building of many stories

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Skyscrapers