Lifestyles
Rich & The Famous
Complaining
Money
100
By 1910, at least half of Americans were living in these
What is a city?
100
Ruthless businessmen who cared more about money than the health and welfare of their workers.
What is a robber baron?
100
Many industrial workers were exploited and worked long hours in working conditions in this establishment that would be highly illegal today.
What is a sweatshop?
100
New technologies became cheaper once they adopted this method of production, invented by Henry Ford.
What is the assembly line?
200
This type of variety show featured live acts, like comedy, musicals, dancing, and animal performances.
What is vaudeville?
200
These people made a lot of money (potentially) by purchasing small shares of successful companies...just don't tell them about what happened in 1929...
What is a stock holder?
200
When one entity/company or person owns the majority (or all) of the market on a specific product or service.
What is a monopoly?
200
The negotiating tool that unions used as a last resort; originally, they were often incredibly violent.
What is a strike?
300
This group of Americans enjoyed unprecedented free time for the first time in world history, and were able to begin expanding their education or joined social activism.
Who are women?
300
These businessmen, although incredibly wealthy, chose to give back to the community.
What is a captain of industry?
300
This is the unequal treatment of a person based on their religion, race, background or birthplace.
What is discrimination?
300
When workers who organized to discuss health, safety, and wage concerns for workers, they joined these...
What is a labor union?
400
This popular movement advocated that alcohol was the root of most of society's problems.
What is temperance?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This oil tycoon made his money through horizontal integration.
400
This is when politicians hired friends or political supporters in government offices. It was incredibly corrupt.
What is the spoils system?
400
Hey, are you free Saturday night? There's a new Charlie Chaplin film we should go see at the _____________.
What is a nickelodeon?
500
Hope you don't need to go to the bathroom! This popular type of building was unsanitary and overcrowded; people were packed in like sardines.
What is a tenement building?
500
This self-made man from Scotland utilized vertical integration to own a significant share of the US Steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
This highly publicized and now controversial 1896 Supreme Court case allowed public segregation so long as facilities were separate, but "equal." It was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Ed in 1954.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
This amendment created the federal income tax in 1913 under President William Taft.