The main city that made steel and the name of the process that produced steel stronger at a lower cost.
What is Pittsburgh and the Bessemer process.
100
One of the most hated and richest business giants that created an oil industry by forming the Standard Oil Trust.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
Rapid growth of city populations.
What is Urbanization?
100
The part of the ship that would hold large amounts of immigrants headed to the United States. This part of the ship was tight and airless and was originally designed to hold cattle.
What is the steerage.
100
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education.
200
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
What is a patent.
200
Businesses owned by many investors.
What are corporations?
200
The founder of the Hull House, a settlement house in the slums of Chicago.
Who was Jane Addams?
200
These were set up when immigrants came to New York and San Francisco. Immigrants would move to areas where other immigrants from the same countries lived.
What are immigrant neighborhoods.
200
The most widely used textbooks where students memorized and recited lessons about moral values and the Christian religion.
What is McGuffey's Eclectic Readers.
300
The place where Thomas Edison set up a laboratory and when Thomas Edison made the first electric power plant in New York City.
What is Menlo Park, New Jersey and 1882.
300
The idea of " Survival of the fittest ".
What is Social Darwinism?
300
The name of the first national baseball team that was created, where its home was, and when it was created.
What is the Red Stockings; in Cincinnati, Ohio; and 1869?
300
Many Americans did not want immigrants to come to the U.S. If they did come, they wanted the immigrants to become part of the American culture and leave their own culture behind.
What is assimilation.
300
In 1874, A Methodist minister opened a school for Bible teachers in New York.
What is Lake Chautauqua.
400
The inventor of the telephone and his assistant.
What is Alexander Graham Bell and Mr. Watson.
400
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
What is Free Enterprise?
400
Stores where people could buy a large variety of goods, one of the first being Macy's.
What are department stores?
400
The reason why many Jewish immigrants from Russia and Catholics and Protestants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
What is religious persecution.
400
This famous American author was a writer who tried to show life as it was. (2 questions)
What is Mark Twain and being a realist.
500
The two brothers that made the first airplane and the place they tested out this plane.
What are Wilbur and Orville Wright and Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
500
This was a striker's union formed in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded by Samuel Gompers.
What is AFL ( American Federation of Labor )?
500
A Catholic nun that set up hospitals and clinics for people who could not afford a doctor.
Who is Mother Cabrini?
500
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is an anarchist?
500
_________ created the first mass-circulation newspaper. This type of writing was called ________ and his/her newspaper was called _____________
What is Joseph Pulitzer, Yellow Journalism, and New York World.