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Booker t. washington Was a American Educator. From 1890-1915 in the African Anerican Community in the U.S. He was supporting blacks who couldn't vote.

Alex. G. Bell Was a eminent scientist, who became known for the first u.s. telephone in 1876. He's one of the most influential figures in human history.

Andrew Carnegie A scottish american who led the enormous expansion of the American Steel Industry in the late 19th century. He built a fortune.

Edwin Drake Was an American Oil Driller. Populary credited for being the first to drill out oil in the United States. He's also known as Colonel Drake. (We have the same birthday might i had)

Christopher Sholes Was a American Inventor who invented the first Typewriter in 1714, and the practical QWERTY typewriter that's still in use today. Eugene Debs Was a American Union Leader. He also is one of the founders of the International Labor Union. In 1897 he became the best known specialist in the U.S. Chester Arthur Was the 21st president of the U.S.!881-1885. He is best known for signing the Pendleton Act into law.

George Eastman Was a American Inventor, he ivented the first Eastman Kodak Company and roll film, helping to bring photography into the mainstream in 1888.

George Pullman Was a American industrialist. He is known as the inventer of the sleeping pullman car in 1860.

Granville Woods Was a African American inventor who hel more than 60 patents. Most of his work was on trains and street cars. He also invented the multiplex telegraph.

Grover Cleveland Was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, and is the only president to be counted twice. Also was the only democrat to be elected in a republican era.

James Garfield Served as the 20th president of the United States. He also managed a national debt crisis without having to call a congress meeting.

John D. Rockefeller Was an oil magnate. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company in 1870, he ran that company until he retired in 1897. Joseph Pulitzer He was a newspaper publisher. He introduced the new techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he aquired in 1880.

Lewis Latimer Lewis Latimer was a slave who ran to freedom in 1842. Also he was a very intelligent draftsman, earning $20.00 a week after becoming head draftsman.

Mama "said knock you out" Was a prominent American Labor and community organizer. she lost her whole family to yellow fever and her workshop in 1871.

thomas Edison an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the major invention the light bulb.

Samuel Gompers was the American Cigar inventor, who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. He also founded the AFL.

Uriah Stephens Was a U.S. labor leader, he led 9 garments to found the knights of labor in 1869.

was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.


 * Angel Island** is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais


 * The American Railway Union** (ARU), was the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. It was founded on June 20, 1893, by railway workers gathered in Chicago, Illinois.

The **Chinese Exclusion Act** was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. A **corporation** is a legal entity that is created under the laws of a state designed to establish the entity as a separate legal entity having its own privileges and liabilities distinct from those of its members . A **gentlemen's agreement** is an informal agreement between two or more parties. It may be written, oral, or simply understood as part of an unspoken agreement by convention or through mutually beneficial etiquette.
 * Ellis Island** is known best as the historical gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. This site was the nation's busiest immigrant inspection //station// from 1892 to 1954.

In American history, the **Gilded Age**refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. A monopoly is be distinguished from monopsony, for which there is only one buyer of a product or service a monopoly may also have monopsony control of a sector of a market.

The NAACP bestows the annual Image Awards for achievement in the arts and entertainment, and the annual Spingarn Medals. for outstanding positive achievement of any kind, on deserving African Americans.