Industry and Railroads
Rise of Big Business
Workers Organize
Age of Invention
The 2000s
100
On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed. What continent does it cross?
What is North America?
100
Andrew Carnegie was a leader in which industry?
What is the steel industry?
100
Cramp workshops set up in shabby tenement businesses.
What are sweat shops?
100
These brothers had the first flight of an airplane?
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
He was elected President in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
What are wildcatters' jobs in the oil industry
What are oil prospectors?
200
The owner and founder of Standard Oil was?
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
The fear of foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
200
These are public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people and make regular stops along established routes.
What is mass transit?
200
The city lost its twin towers on September 11, 2001
Where is New York?
300
The Bessemer process of iron ore produced what?
What is steel?
300
What is a trust gains complete control over an industry?
What is a monopoly?
300
A union that accepted unskilled workers, women, African Americans, and even employers as members
Who are the Knights of Labor?
300
In 1837, Samuel Morse patented his method of communicating by sending messages over wires with electricity.
What is the telegraph?
300
The United States invaded this country in 2003/
Where is Iraq?
400
Who was the first American to discover oil?
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
400
A large company that acquires companies that supplies their business?
What is vertical integration?
400
In 1890 Congress passed an act, which made it illegal to form trusts that interfered with free trade.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Today, he is known as the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
Hurricane Katrina flooded this city?
Where is New Orleans?
500
How did steel change Chicago?
Any of these questions will be fine. What are skyscrapers? What was the meatpacking industry? What are suburbs?
500
The philosophy that believes stronger businesses, people, and nations would prosper.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
In 1892 workers at the Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania protested when the manager wanted to step up production.
What is the Homestead Strike?
500
They built the first practical motorcar in the United States.
Who are Charles and J. Frank Duryea?
500
Global economic downturn occurred in this year
When was 2007?
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