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Angel Island

The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese, gained admission to the U.S. from 1910 to 1940.

Chinatown

A district in a non-Chinese town where the population is predominantly of Chinese origin.

Look Tin Eli

The person who rebuilt Chinatown after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 and created the first Chinese owned bank.

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president known for conservationism, trust-busting, and clean food and drug policies.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president of the United States who passed the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments to the Constitution.

William Howard Taft

27th president who created the 8 hour work day and eliminated child labor in the U.S.

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote.

Progressivism

The movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of corporations.

Muckrakers

Journalists who exposed corruption or wrongdoing in industries to the public.

Pull Factors

Factors that induce people to move to a new location.

Ellis Island

An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination.

Railroads

Essential infrastructure for westward expansion, making travel and living in the west easier.

Electricity

A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s and for lighting and industrial motors beginning in the 1880s.

Bessemer Process

A method to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron.

Assembly Line

Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks.

Telephone

Allowed Americans to communicate over large distances using electric lines.

Coal

A combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground deposits and widely used as fuel.

Monopoly

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group.

Vertical Integration

Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution.

Horizontal Integration

Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller

Push factor

A factor that induces people to move out of their present location