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100
Andrew Carnegie
What business leader developed the steel industry?
100
Jane Addams
Who founded the first settlement house in the United States?
100
Upton sinclair
Whose novel The Jungle exposed unsafe practices in the meat packing industry?
100
monopoly
What is a company that controls an entire industry?
100
primary source
What is a firsthand account of an event?
200
Thomas Alva Edison
Who invented the light bulb?
200
Queen Liluokalani
Who was the last Queen of Hawaii overthrown by American planters?
200
Ida Tarbell
Whose magazine articles described unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company?
200
corporation
What is a business owned by individuals who invest in that company?
200
Seward's Ice Box
What was the nickname given to the United States purchase of Alaska?
300
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the telephone?
300
James Cook
Who reached the Hawaiian Islands in 1778?
300
William Gorgas
What army doctor helped control the spread of malaria during the building of the Panama Canal?
300
strike
What is a refusal of all workers in a business to work until the owners meet their demands?
300
Panama Canal
What is the human made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
400
John D. Rockefeller
Who started the Standard Oil Company?
400
William McKinley
Who sent the USS Maine to Havana, Cuba?
400
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Who made the world's first successful airplane flight?
400
sweatshop
What is a small, crowded factory where people work in unsafe conditions?
400
Spanish American War
What war made the United States gain control of Puerto Rico, Guam & the Philippines from Spain?
500
Mary Harris Jones
Who fought against child labor?
500
Theodore Roosevelt
Who led the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War?
500
John Muir
Who worked to establish Yosemite National Park?
500
tenement
What is an apartment building divided into many small, cramped apartments?
500
assembly line
What is a method of mass production in which the product is carried on a moving belt past workers who remain in place?
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