Inventors need investments of this in order to get their ideas off the drawing board.
What is capital?
100
This event began a dozen years after the start of the 19th century.
What is the War of 1812?
100
This woman was known for taking disfigured children to the steps of the White House to help end child labor.
Who is Mother (Mary Harris) Jones?
100
These two men did not die of snakebite while exploring the American West for President Jefferson.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
200
He invented the lightbulb, among other things.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
This type of integration happens when someone owns all of the factories, for example, where a product is made.
What is horizontal integration?
200
Great Britain did this to our American naval officers, helping to spark a war with our old enemy.
What is impressment?
200
This union welcomed all skilled, white, male workers and used collective bargaining to get what it wanted.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
200
When Napoleon of France was broke, we doubled the size of our country by buying this piece of real estate.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
His cars made it possible for people to sleep soundly while riding the rails.
Who is George Pullman?
300
This was the first Supreme Court decision that involved the government in regulating private business.
What is Munn vs. Illinois?
300
Immediately following the Civil War, this effort took place in an attempt to heal the divide between North and South.
What is Reconstruction?
300
Eugene Debs helped lead 250,000 employees to protest low pay and high rent in this man's company town.
Who is George Pullman?
300
This was the idea that it was the white settlers' divine right to settle the West, despite causing a "Trail of Tears" for the original inhabitants.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
This process began in the iron mines of Pennsylvania and ended in bridges and beams for skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
This is an example of a corporation that doesn't produce anything itself, but makes its money by buying up other companies' stock.
What is a holding company?
400
Despite President Lincoln's desires before his untimely death, "Radical Republicans" in Congress wanted to do what to anyone who had fought for the Confederate Army?
What is disenfranchise them, or take away their vote?
400
This union stated that it accepted "all races," when in reality they supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
This act helped settle the West in a jiffy, promising large chunks of land to anyone who was willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
These solved the problem of traveling too quickly across the country by rail and having to guess what time it was in each place.
What are time zones?
500
This act prohibited corporations from interfering with or monopolizing free trade and business competition and is still enforced today.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
A president came up with this idea to keep Europe out of our conflicts and land acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This "boss" appeared to support the right of his workers to unionize, but hired thugs to beat them up when they actually tried to go on strike.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
These laws were passed by farmers in the American West who were angry at the railroads for having too much power.