Politics
Random Tidbits
Advances in Important Stuff
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Culture/Social Stuff
100
When a president give government jobs to those who helped him win their election.
What is the Spoils System?
100
The Gilded Age started at the end of this era.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
100
When this was invented, it helped boost the oil industry.
What is the internal combustion engine?
100
This famous railroad was planned to cross the entire country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
A political party that emerged from the South; wanted the government to aid agriculture.
What is the Populist Party?
200
President during this time period whose Administration was corrupted.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
Leading man in the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
Yo, that dude created the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Railroads made this easier and cheaper. **Bonus:** What traveled ON railroads?
What is trade and movement of ideas? **Trains!!!** BAZINGA. No bonus for you. Jk. But seriously....
200
A book that claimed that the wealthy had money because they were selected by God.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
300
An election tactic used by Republicans to remind them of their war heroes.
What is "waving the bloody shirt"?
300
The dude that coined the phrase Gilded Age.
Who is Mark Twain?? (called it this because it was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath)
300
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell? #canihaveyournumber #canihaveit
300
Used by the railroad companies to keep on schedule and avoid wrecks.
What are time zones?
300
What it's called when a group of workers joins together to protest their employers.
What is a labor union?
400
A group of Republicans that separated after the party was corrupted.
What are mugwumps? #soundslikemuggle
400
The Gilded Age lasted this long.
What is about a quarter of a century?
400
He was a leading developer in steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
These are 2 major improvements to the railroad, yo.
What are steel rails and standard gauge of track width?
400
It was before the American Federation of Labor, had a bomb thrown into one of their protests in Chicago.
What are the Knights of Labor?
500
The two factions the Republican party split into.
What are the Half-Breeds and the Stalwarts? #harrypotter
500
When this dude became president, the Gilded Age ended.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
500
This dude pretty much owned the railroad enterprise.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
These two ethnic groups were hired to help build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
500
Association of self-governing unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
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