Definitions
Work conditions
Inventions
Immigrants
Cities
100
A business in which many people own shares or part of a business
What is a corporation?
100
Someone who "rakes up" unpleasant truths.
What is a muckraker?
100
This device created by Remington saved writing time and made letters neater.
What is a typewrite?
100
Many immigrants moved to the United States to escape this.
What is persecution?
100
These new arrivals to the country often moved to cities like New York City or Chicago.
Who are immigrants?
200
An organization of workers trying to improve conditions and pay.
What is a labor union
200
A muckraker who wrote The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
200
This gentleman created over 1,000 inventions, and his most famous was probably the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Ireland, Germany, England, Sweden, and Denmark before 1880.
What are the places most immigrants came from to the United States?
200
This city grew quickly due to its proximity to resources and Lake Michigan.
What is Chicago?
300
The unfair treatment or punishment of people.
What is persecution?
300
This was the setting for The Jungle.
What is an unsafe meatpacking plant?
300
Alexander Graham Bell invented this communication device in 1876.
What is the telephone?
300
Italy, Russia, Hungary, Greece, and Poland after 1880.
What are the places most immigrants moved from into the United States?
300
The first type of this building was built in Chicago in 1885.
What is a skyscraper?
400
Reformers wanting protection for workers and improved conditions and life in the United States.
What are progressives?
400
These acts by the government made food safer.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
400
This invention by Elijah McCoy kept trains and machines running longer by dripping oil over moving parts.
What is an oil cup?
400
A group of people who share a culture or language.
What is an ethnic group?
400
These reformers opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
Who were Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr?
500
The poor, crowded part of the city.
What are the slums?
500
Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt worked together to create this national park.
What is Yosemite National Park?
500
This addition to paper bags by Margaret Knight helped them hold more stuff.
What is a flat bottom?
500
A poorly built apartment building for immigrants.
What is a tenement?
500
A system of trains used to move people around cities.
What is rapid transit?
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