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This inventor created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
________ was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
This term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Who are Robber Barons?
100
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy and a successful steel magnate.
Andrew Carnegie
100
A social campaign urging citizens and governement to resrtcit or ban the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages
What is the Temperance movement?
100
A time when the manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and home to large factories
What is the 1st or 2nd Industrial Revolution?
100
This ancient civilization is credited with developing cuneiform, one of the world's earliest writing systems
What is Mesopotamia?
200
This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly thanks to Samuel Morse.
What is the telegraph?
200
The effect of business owners trying to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry.
What is a monopoly?
200
A company that has complete control of the entire supply of goods or services in a certain area or market. Also, a popular board game.
What is a Monopoly?
200
This established national Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors nationwide
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
In 1911, this tragic factory fire in New York City killed 146 workers, many of whom were young immigrant women, and sparked demands for improved workplace safety laws.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
200
An American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
200
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804 and conquered much of Europe before his final defeat at Waterloo.
Who is Napoleon?
300
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the Telephone?
300
Mark Twain coined this term to describe a period when America glittered on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
300
The business process of owning the manufacturing, distribution, and selling of a product
What is Vertical Integration?
300
The founder of the Standard Oil Company,
Who is John D Rockefeller
300
An African American scholar, sociologist, and civil rights activist who co-founded the NAACP in 1909
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
300
A famous social settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
What is the Hull House?
300
This 1773 protest involved American colonists dumping hundreds of chests of British tea into a harbor to protest taxation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
The Wright Brothers invented the first __________
What is the Airplane?
400
A group of workers formed to ask for better working conditions and higher wages
What is a Union?
400
A business growth strategy where a company acquires or merges with another company operating at the same stage of the supply chain in the same industry
What is Horizontal Integration?
400
Replaced the spoils system with a merit-based civil service exam system for federal jobs
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
400
The secret ballot, also known as the _________, is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous.
What is the Australian Ballot?
400
The processing center for European Immigrants arriving in NY during the Gilded Age
What is Ellis Island?
400
What are these ancient structures called?
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
500
This process was the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
This innovation in factories, especially in the car industry, created more efficient production, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans.
What is the assembly line?
500
Rewarding political supporters, party loyalists, and friends with government jobs and favors regardless of their qualifications.
What is the Spoils System/Political Patronage?
500
Muckraking author whose 1906 novel "The Jungle" exposed unsanitary conditions and worker exploitation in Chicago's meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
500
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
This Law enacted strict building codes, fire escapes, workday limits, and financial compensation for on-the-job industrial injuries following major catastrophic events like the fire in the factory in NYC
What are Factory Safety & Workers' Comp Laws?
500
This deadly disease swept through Europe during the 1300s and killed millions of people.
What is the Bubonic/ Black plague?
600
Who said this quote: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
600
Investigative journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed social, economic, and political corruption and consumption during the Progressive Era
What is a Muckraker?
600
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
600
In ____, the 19th Amendment was passed guarenteeing women the constitutional right to vote, prohibiting voting restrictions based on gender
What is 1920?
600
These newspaper drawings helped bring down the infamous political machine known as Tammany Hall, as well as shed light on issues within our country/government during the Gilded Age.
What are political cartoons?
600
What does the NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
600
This 1803 agreement between the United States and France doubled the size of the United States and opened new territory for westward expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?