Ch. 5 People
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- Nelly Bly
- She was an undercover reporter that wrote of unfair conditions to women, children, and the mentally handicapped
- Alexander G. Bell
- He invented the telephone
- Ellis Island
- Place where European immigrants entered the U.S.
- John D. Rockefeller
- He set up an oil refinery, bought forests, barrel factories, ships, and railroads
- Chinese
- Group of immigrants that entered the U.S. through California during the Gold Rush and stayed to work on the railroads
- Samuel Morse
- He invented a code system in which dots and dashes stand for letters
- Jacob Lawrence
- Described the movement of African Americans north to industrial cities
- Andrew Carnegie
- He was an entrepreneur that built steel mills and even bought coal mines and ships to make more steel at a lower cost than anyone else
- Westinghouse
- He created air brakes that made train travel safer
- Bessemer
- English inventor who found a way of making steel stronger
- Thomas Edison
- He invented the light bulb and many other things
- Jane Addams
- She started the Hull House to help those living in tenements.