The Rise of Big Businesses
Immigrants in America
Growing Cities
Time of Reform
Random!
100
This person invented the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
unfair treatment or punishment.
What is persecution?
100
a fenced area where large numbers of animals, such as pigs and cattle, are kept until they are used as food or moved to another place.
What is a stockyard?
100
another term for reformers
What are progressives?
100
this association was founded in 1909 to work for equality for African Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
workers refuse to work.
What is a strike?
200
a group of people who share a culture or a language.
What is an ethnic group?
200
very tall building that was first built in the United States in Chicago in 1885.
What is a skyscraper?
200
someone who "rakes up," or points out, unpleasant truths.
What is a muckraker?
200
Once immigrants arrived in the United States, they went through immigration stations, such as the one in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
300
a business in which many people own shares, or parts, of the business.
What is a corporation?
300
a poorly built apartment building.
What is a tenement?
300
a system of trains used to move people around cities.
What is rapid transit?
300
this muckracker published his book, The Jungle, in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
John D. Rockefeller's corporation manufactured what types of products?
What is oil?
400
an organization of workers that tries to improve pay and working conditions for its members.
What is a labor union?
400
Congress limited immigration in 1882 that kept out almost all new Chinese immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
a community center for people in cities.
What is a settlement house?
400
This President worked with Congress to pass laws in 1906 to make food safer.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened this settlement house in 1889 to help people learn English, get medical care or find jobs.
What is the Hull House?
500
two inventions created by Thomas Edison.
What is (lightbulb, phonograph, record player, etc)?
500
about 25 million of them moved to the United States in the years between 1880 and 1924.
What are immigrants?
500
a poor, crowded part of a city?
What is a slum?
500
an African American leader that started a school to educate and give job training to southern African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
In 1856, this British Scientist created a process to make steel. This process made steel much less expensive to produce.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
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