Terms
People
Inventions
Unions
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100
A workshop set up in a tenement.
What is a sweatshop?
100
Inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
The place the first cable car was created in 1873.
What is San Francisco?
100
The number of hours a day did unskilled workers worked in factories during the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is 10 hours per day?
100
He was called the Wizard of Menlo Park.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
A list of workers thought to be troublemakers.
What is A blacklist?
200
Inventors and pilots who made the first successful airplane flight.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
200
Underground trains powered by electricity that were first built in Boston and New York.
What is subways?
200
Three conditions workers faced that led them to join unions.
What is 10 hour days, 6 day work week, no sick time, no vacation time, no help if injured on the job.
200
The state that was "first in flight."
What is North Carolina? Kitty Hawk was where the Wright Brothers had their first flight.
300
A machine for sending messages over wires with electricity.
What is a telegraph?
300
Leader of the Knights of Labor. By 1886 this group had over 700,000 members.
Who is Terence V. Powderly?
300
He invented the light bulb, phonograph, and first research laboratory.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
Two demands of the Knights of Labor.
What is an 8 hr work day, an end to child labor, and equal pay for equal work?
300
In 1882 Edison put in a lighting system in this city near this famous street.
What is New York, Wall Street?
400
Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people and make regular stops upon established routes.
What is mass transit?
400
He was the founder of the American Federation of Labor. Skilled workers only only could join!
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
He patented the telegraph. Operators would use a code to send messages.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
400
This union used strikes and other tactics to eventually get wage increases and shorter work weeks.
What is the Anerican Federation of Labor?
400
Kids as young as this worked in factories during the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is 5 years old?
500
A fear of foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
500
He led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike president Cleveland sent in troops to break up this strike.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
500
The reason the QWERTY keyboard was created.
What is to prevent the jamming of keys.
500
This happened when workers were protesting police violence at an earlier strike. Someone there a bomb. There was gunfire. Eleven people died.
What is The Haymarket Riot?
500
At age 20, Thomas Edison vowed this when his electric voting machine did not do well.
What is only to make things people would buy.
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