Inventions/Industrialists
Who perfected the lightbulb and a system for generating and distributing electric power?
Thomas Edison
What is the term for a law that distributed public land. This law turned over vast amounts of the public land to private citizens?
Homestead Act
This era was also known as _____, which lasted from the late 1800s to the early 1900s and was characterized by economic growth for the wealthy and extreme poverty for the working classes.
Gilded Age
What is an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work?
Labor Union
What is the political philosophy that expresses anti-government beliefs?
Anarchism
What is the term that describes a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices?
Robber Baron
Which animal was systematically killed by the US Army in order to destroy the way of life for Plains tribes of Native Americans?
Buffalo
Where did immigrants during this time period primarily come from?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What is the term for workers who take the jobs of striking workers?
Scabs
What is the political theory that advocates that the community as a whole should control the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services?
Socialism
What is the term for a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way?
Captain of Industry
What was the religious revitalization campaign in which Native leaders foretold a day when Native Americans could once again practice their ancestral customs "free from misery, death, and disease.
Ghost Dancess
What is the term for small rental units that often consisted of only one room?
Tenements
Name at least 2 unions that formed during this time.
Farmer's Alliance, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (AFL), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
What photographer captured pictures of child labor?
Lewis Hines
Who ran the Standard Oil Company, which controlled 90% of the nation's oil supply?
John D. Rockefller
What invention/system that connected the country, but destroyed the way of life for Native Americans?
Transcontinental Railroad
Name at least one reason why children were hired in factories.
Many poor families had no choice but to send their children to work in order to help the family survive.
Children were small enough to fit easily among the machines
Could be hired for simple work for a fraction of an adult man’s pay. Would not unionize.
What is the belief that ordinary people should control government rather than a small group of wealthy, elite politicians?
Populism
Name at least 2 starting pitchers for the Dodgers during this year's playoffs.
What is the term for the type of company that is controlled at every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
Vertical Integration
What was the name of the reservation in which soldiers opened fire Native Americans encamped in South Dakota, killing between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children.
Wounded Knee
What is the name of the photographer who captured photos of people living in extreme poverty, sometimes by bursting into their homes without warning?
Jacob Riis
Who was a popular Populist leader who delivered a speech in which they declared farmers should "raise less corn and more hell."
Mary E. Lease
Which 2017 Astros player is currently on the Blue Jays?
George Springer