1. Steel IndustryTranscontinental Railroad Impact of railroads on west John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company Trust MonopolyThomas Edison Ellis IslandImmigration American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers

2. Sitting BullWounded KneePullman StrikeThe Jungle Upton SinclairProgressive EraJane AddamsHull House Jim Crow LawsPlessy v. FergusonNAACPIda Tarbell

3. InitiativeReferendum Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Recall Muckraker17th Amendment

5. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Steel Industry – An industry that grew to support railroads. (SSUSH11a) Transcontinental Railroad – Connected the West Coast to the rest of the nation. (SSUSH11a) Impact of railroads on the West:(1) Connected the West Coast to the rest of the nation (2) transported settlers west and goods back east (3) railroad companies sold land for farming. (SSUSH11a) John D. Rockefeller: He created a monopoly and the trust and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company. (SSUSH11c)

6. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Standard Oil Company: Founded by John D. Rockefeller; became a monopoly. (SSUSH11c) Trust – A corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned. (SSUSH11c) Monopoly: A market in which one company has complete control over an industry’s production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged. (SSUSH11c) Thomas Edison: Inventor; light bulb, motion pictures and phonograph. (SSUSH11d)

7. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Ellis Island: New York harbor; Statue of Liberty; location where 19th century eastern European immigrants most likely to pass before gaining entry into the United States? (SSUSH12a) Immigration: Those immigrants coming to America tended to live together in ghettos, along with other immigrants with whom they shared the same language and cultural background. American Federation of Labor (AFL): Organization stared by Samuel Gompers that focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic. (SSUSH12b)

8. Unit #6 Vocab & Study Guide Samuel Gompers: Leader/founder of the American Federation of Labor. (SSUSH12b) Sitting Bull: Native American Sioux Chief; never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. He defeated the US Army at the Little Bighorn; encouraged the Ghost Dance movement, and was eventually killed during an attempt by reservation police to arrest him. (SSUSH12c) Wounded Knee : called a massacre; marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians. (SSUSH12c)

9. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Pullman Strike: Example of industrial unrest among factory & railroad workers concerning hours, pay and benefits. (SSUSH12d) The Jungle: Written by Upton Sinclair; Pres. Teddy Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a commission to investigate the meatpacking industry. (SSUSH13a) Progressive Era: Period of time when many reforms in society were made by the government. (SSUSH11a)

10. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Jane Addams: Early 20 th century reformer opened Hull House as a settlement house to help the poor and immigrants. (SSUSH13b) Hull House: Settlement house to help immigrants settle into the big cities and the U.S. Started by Jane Addams. (SSUSH13b) Jim Crow Laws: Laws adopted by some southern states to enforce legal segregation. (SSUSH13c)

11. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Plessy v Ferguson: The Supreme Court decision ruled that separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. It established the principle of “separate but equal” (SSUSH13c) NAACP: Primary goal was to achieve equality among the races.(SSUSH13c) Ida Tarbell: A muckraker who wrote about John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company and the problems with big businesses becoming monopolies. (SSUSH13d)

12. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Initiative: This is a process in which citizen put proposed new law directly on the ballot. (SSUSH13e) Referendum: A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature (voting on an initiative). (SSUSH13e) Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - Decreased greatly or stop the flow of all Chinese immigrants into the US.

13. Unit #6 – Vocab & Study Guide Recall: Enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it. (SSUSH13e) Muckraker: Journalists and authors who uncovered corruption in big business. Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell and Jane Addams. (SSUSH13) 17 th Amendment: Progressive reform that enabled voters to directly elect senators. (SSUSH13e)