From which areas of Europe did the "new immigrants" come?
Southern and Eastern Europe
100
What is a business strategy where a company buys up rival firms in the same industry to expand its size?
Horizontal Integration
100
What is the term for low-cost housing divided into apartments to house as many families as possible?
Tenements
100
What is the term for a form of writing based on exaggeration and sensationalism?
Yellow journalism
100
Who invented an elevator safety mechanism?
Elisha Otis
200
What are the ethnic neighborhoods in large cities where specific immigrant groups settled?
Ghettoes
200
If John Rockefeller is responsible for Rockefeller Plaza and Cornelius Vanderbilt is responsible for Vanderbilt University, what philanthropic contribution can we thank Andrew Carnegie for?
Carnegie Hall
200
Which classes benefited most from technological and sanitary improvements in cities?
Upper and Middle Classes
200
Who invented the game of basketball?
James Naismith
200
Who invented the mechanized sewing machine?
Elias Howe
300
What event caused many Irish people to come to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s?
The Great Potato Famine
300
Who wrote a very famous book in 1776 that advocated laissez-faire economics?
Adam Smith
300
Who was the leader of Tammany Hall?
Boss Tweed
300
Who was the author that wrote rags-to-riches stories about young men working hard and creating their own success?
Horatio Alger
300
Who founded Tuskegee University?
Booker T. Washington
400
Angel Island was located near which major American coastal city?
San Francisco, California
400
What was the first government organization created to regulate private business?
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
400
What was the largest group of people killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
young immigrant women (Jewish, Italian)
400
What event in 1893 served as a showcase of American engineering and architecture?
Chicago World's Fair
400
Who were the two men who wrote The Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
500
What is the belief that assimilating immigrants into American culture will make them better citizens?
Americanization
500
What union was notable for its inclusion of African-American and female workers?
The Knights of Labor
500
Who theorized the idea of "conspicuous consumption?"
Thorstein Veblen
500
Who was the owner and editor of The Morning Journal newspaper chain?