People
Vocab
Entertainment
Events
Misc.
100

Ohio Oil Tycoon

Who is John D. Rockefeller 

100

HANDS OFF

What is Laissez-Faire

100

Where was the first Roller Coaster

Where is Coney Island

100

Grade school becoming mandatory led to what

What is rising literacy rates or the development of newspapers

100

Where most immigrants traveled on the ship coming to the U.S

What is Steerage

200

Received over 1000 patents

Who is Thomas Edison

200

Number of people share ownership in of a business

What is a corporation

200

Why were Baseball, Horse Racing and Boxing popular during this time period?

What is you could gamble on them

200

Led to the Knights of Labor fizzling out

What is the Haymarket Riot

200

This was created to eliminate confusion with railroads

What are Time Zones

300

Gave the last decades the name "Gilded Age"

Who is Mark Twain

300

Complete control of a product or service

What is a monopoly

300

Created by James Naismith in 1891

What is Basketball

300

Led to the nations railroad traffic coming to a halt

What is the Pullman Strike

300

Created in 1887 to monitor shipping rates

What is the ICC

400

Founder of the American Railroad Union (ARU)

Who is Eugene V. Debs

400

Businesses making the same product agree to limit their production thus keep prices high

What is a Cartel

400

Medley of music, drama, and off-color comedy

What is a Vaudeville

400

Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act

400

"Survival of the Richest"

What is Social Darwinism

500

Hungarian immigrant, started a morning paper called "The World"

Who is Joseph Pulitzer

500

The system of consolidating many firms in the same business

What is Horizontal Integration

500

________________________'s Wild West show showed what it was like to be a cowboy in the West

Who is Buffalo Bill

500

When white people of different nationalities blend together to create a single culture

What is melting pot

500

These programs helped immigrants learn english and adopt American dress and diet

What is Americanization

M
e
n
u