VOCAB

BIG BUSINESS
IMMIGRATION
PROGRESSIVES
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
The term for a company that has no competition.
What is a monopoly?
100
The best choice of words describing factory work: clean, dangerous, safe, fun.
What is dangerous?
100
The reason employers liked hiring immigrants.
What is because they would work for low wages and in poor conditions?
100
What progressives wanted for society?
What is change?
100
Finish this popular phrase written on the base of the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, _______ _______."
What is "...your poor."
200
When workers refuse to work they do this.
What is a strike?
200
*****DAILY DOUBLE**** The invention that allowed factories to stay open longer.
What is the lightbulb?
200
The name of the most popular immigrant processing center on the east coast?
What is Ellis Island?
200
The issue Carrie Chapman Catt fought for.
What is the right to vote for women.
300
The name of the poorly built apartment buildings where many immigrants were forced to live.
What are tenements?
300
Correctly match the inventor with the invention: McCoy phonograph Bell oil cup Edison telephone
What is McCoy-oil cup Bell-telephone Edison-phonograph
300
*****DAILY DOUBLE**** The number of immigrants going through Ellis Island daily according to the web quest.
What is between 5000-7000?
300
****DAILY DOUBLE**** This was started by Booker T. Washington in the South.
What is a school for African Americans?
400
A group of people who shre a culture or a language.
What is an ethnic group?
400
The business in which John D. Rockefeller created a monopoly.
What is the oil business?
400
The name of the popular immigrant processing center on the west coast.
What is Angel Island?
400
The name of Upton Sinclair's book, describing unsafe and dirty working conditions in meatpacking plants.
What is "The Jungle"?
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