Immigration
Inventions
Big Business
Growing Cities
Reform
100
Many immigrants came to the United States to escape this.
What is persecution?
100
This person invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
A business that pays part of its profits to its shareholders.
What is a corporation?
100
A poor, crowded part of a city.
What is a slum?
100
Another name for reformers.
What are progressives?
200
Immigrants who arrived in the United States at the New York Harbor went through this immigration station.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This person invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
An organization of workers that tries to improve pay and working conditions for its members.
What is a labor union?
200
A very tall building.
What is a skyscraper?
200
Someone who points out unpleasant truths.
What is a muckraker?
300
Immigrants who arrived in the United States at the San Francisco bay went through this immigration station.
What is Angel Island?
300
This person invented the oil cup.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
300
A company that has no competition.
What is a monopoly?
300
A system pf trains used to move people around cities.
What is rapid transit?
300
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
A poorly built apartment building where many immigrants lived.
What is a tenement?
400
These allowed productivity to increase in businesses in the 1800s.
What are inventions?
400
The use of machines to do work.
What is mechanization?
400
Two important technologies that changed cities.
What are steel frames and electric wires?
400
This organization was founded in 1909 to work for the equality of African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
500
Many immigrants faced this from people who were afraid of their unfamiliar languages and customs.
What is prejudice?
500
This person invented a paper-bag-making machine.
Who is Margaret Knight?
500
An example of a corporation in the 1800s.
What is Standard Oil?
500
A community center for people in cities.
What is a settlement house?
500
This book by Upton Sinclair was based on his observations of dirty conditions in meatpacking plants and led to new food laws.
What is The Jungle?
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