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Angel Island

The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 and 1940 50k Chinese immigrants entered through Angel Island. Questioning and conditions at Angel Island were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

Chinatown

A district of any non-Chinese town, especially a city or seaport, in which the population is predominantly of Chinese origin.

Look Tin Eli

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

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, and creating clean food and drugs for Americans

Woodrow Wilson

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

William Howard Taft

27th president of the U.S.; created the 8 hour work day and eliminated child labor in the United States

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 the corporation.

Muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it 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 and only allowed in if they were healthy

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 and only allowed in if they were healthy

Railroads

Were essential to westward expansion because they made it easier to travel to and live in the west

Electricity

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

Bessemer Process

A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.

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