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Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor. He is know for the invention of the telephone. Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 25th November, 1835. Most People know him as a 'robber baron' and to others as a 'captain of industry', Carnegie founded the Carnegie Steel Company in the Progressive Era. Booker T. Washington was born a mulatto slave in Franklin Country on 5th April, 1856. He was put in charge of Tuskegee Institute on July 4th,1888. Edwin Drake was born in Greensville, Greene County , New York on March 29, 1819, the son of Lyman and Laura Drake. Edwin Drake was know for being an american oil driller. Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers Of The World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party Of America for President Of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled devices. He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor". George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman. James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) served as a President Of The United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House Of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, energizing U.S. naval power, and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.

Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an African American inventor and draftsman. In 1874, he copatented (with Charles W. Brown) an improved toilet system for railroad cars called the //Water Closet for Railroad Cars//. Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who 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.Edison is the third most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. 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 entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, and is administered by California State Park. 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. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. 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. The Gilded Age is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy. Nativism typically means oppisiton 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.According to Fetzer, opposition to immigration is common in many countries because of issues of national, cultural or religious identity.