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=History=

People


Edwin L. Drake Edwin Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County, New York on March 29, 1819, the son of Lyman and Laura (née Lee) Drake. He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. He came from Green county newyork. Time period: 1859 Impact: Resulted in the Pennsylvania oil rush which lasted from 1859 to the 1870’s.

Thomas Edison Was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. Invented the light bulb. Time Period: 1876 From Milan, Ohio. Impact: He invented the light bulb which transformed everything we do today.

Christopher Sholes Was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter. Invented The first practical typewriter. Time period: 1819 Impact: Made it easier to communicate.

Alexander Graham Bell Was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Invented The first telephone. From: Scottland, UK Time period: 1847 Made it easier to communicate with people all around the world.

George Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. The inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created. From: Brocton, Newyork. Time Period: 1897 Impact: Now, people could sleep and eat on a train.

Andrew Carnegie. was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. From: United Kingdom. Time period: 1913 Impact: Impacted American society.

was an American oil magnate and philanthropist.

founder of the Standard Oil Company and the six-generation family dynasty, and the richest person in history. From: Newyork. Time Period: 1839 Impacted oil industry.

Samuel Gompers.  was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. He was the person that founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL). From: London, England. Time Period: 1850 Impact: It affected him by becoming conscious about the exploitation of workers by the industrialists and thus he became a union organizer

Eugene Debs Was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Debs educated himself about socialism in prison and emerged to launch his career as the nation's most prominent socialist in the first decades of the 20th century. From: Indiana. Time Period: 1885 Impact: Eugene Debs helped motivate the American Left as a measure of political opposition to corporations and World War I

Marry Harris "Mother" jones Was a prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. She organized a Children's March from Philadelphia to the home of then president Theodore Roosevelt in New York. From: Ireland. Impact: She released her own account of her experiences in the labor movement as //The Autobiography of Mother Jones//

=Terms=

Corperation 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. Time period: 1866

Poll Tax In U.S. practice, a **poll tax** was used as a de facto or implicit pre-condition of the exercise of the ability to vote. This tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late 19th century as part of the Jim Crow laws. Time period: 1937

Urbanization is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. Time period: 1900

Nativism Nativism typically means opposition to immigration or efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot be assimilated. Time period:1762

Ragtime
 * Ragtime** (alternatively spelled **rag-time**) is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918

Progressivism Time period: 19th 20th century
 * Progressivism** is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.

Ellis Island
 * 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.

Gilded Age 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.

Monopoly 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. Likewise, a monopoly should be distinguished from a (a form of oligopoly), for which several providers act together to coordinate services, prices or sale of goods.

Grandfather Clause
 * Grandfather clause** is a legal term used to describe a situation in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations, while a new rule will apply to all future situations.