Era's Tour
The name given to the era following the American Civil War was dedicated to rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This invention revoltionized transportation creating new cities in America.
What are the Railroads?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Ida B. Wells was a founding member of the NAACP and wrote about violence in the south known by this name.
What is lynching?
A group of workers who organized to gain rights, negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
What is a labor union?
What name was given to the time period when the 13 Colonies rejected the English crown and formed a new nation?
What is the American Revolution?
Thomas Edison is credited for this invention in 1879.
What is the light bulb?
This man made his fortune in black gold gaining a monopoly through the Standard Oil Company.
Who is J. D. Rockefeller?
Uptin Sinclair wrote this book exposing the horrors of the meat packing industry.
What is the Jungle?
What is a strike?
Name given to the era in American History following WWII, where people fought to end segregation and demanded equality for all in America.
What is the Civil Rights Era?
Jack and Jill no longer need to go up the hill to fetch a paleof water with the invention of indoor.
What is plumbing?
This man was born wealthy and expanded his wealth through banking, insurance, and a Wall Street firm bearing his name.
Who is JP Morgan?
What are cartoons?
When a labor union uses signs to protest working conditions.
What is picketing?
Name given to a period in history where America faced tremendous economic hardships, leading to high unemployment, homelessness, and tough times for most.
What is the Great Depression?
William Randolf Hearst made his fortune through selling sensational headlines known as Yellow Journalism in this form of media.
Jacob Riis's book 'How the Other Half Lives' helped to push for reforms of living conditions in this type of housing.
What is Tenement Housing?
Name given to when companies gobble up other companies reducing competition in the industry.
What is a monopoly?
Time in American History marked by many great inventions, extreme wealth inequality, immigration, and legal protections to help protect workers.
What is the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?
The Bessemer Process allowed for the creation of the skyscraper smelting this metal.
What is steal?
This man made his vast fortune in the Railroad industry and spent lavishly.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbuilt?
This Harvard educated man wrote the book Souls of the Black Folk, was a founding member of the NAACP, and was critical towards Booker T. Washington's industrial schooling.
This form of labor was outlawed and the public school system created to expand future opportunities.
What is child labor?