Cram Jam Session

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Chapter 5

• Cram Jam Session

Sherry Woods, Caywood Elementary School
Lexington, TN
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Free Enterprise

• An economic system in which businesses have the
  freedom to offer for sale many kinds of goods and
  services.

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Capital Resources

• Money needed to run a business.

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Entrepreneur

• Person who takes a chance by opening up a business

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hub

• City where many trains and planes make stops on
  their way to different destinations

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prejudice

• Feeling some people have that makes them dislike
  members of a different race or culture

no more Chinese
White's Only
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invest

• To buy stock in a company in hopes of making a
  profit

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tenements

• Crowded and poorly built apartment house

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monopoly

• Nearly complete control of an industry

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Ellis Island

• Entry place into the United States for most
  immigrants from Europe

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naturalization

• Steps that immigrants take to become United
  States citizens

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Angel Island

• Entry place into the United States for most
  immigrants from Asia

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Jane Addams

• Founded a settlement house that helped people
  living in Chicago

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Andrew Carnegie

• Made the production of steel a major industry in
  the United States.

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John D. Rockefeller

• Formed the Standard Oil Company and gained almost
  complete control of the oil business.

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Samuel Gompers

• Organized groups of skilled workers into the
  American Federation of Labor AFL

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Jacob Lawrence

• wrote a book about African Americans moving from
  northern cities from the South.

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Jacob Riis

• Wrote a book about poor living conditions in New
  York City tenements.

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William Jenney

• Built the worlds first skyscraper, in Chicago.

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Samuel F.B. Morse

• Invented the telegraph, a way of carrying
  messages along wires

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