Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
Who is Thomas Edison?
Workers that stick together to fight for better pay and working conditions.
What is a union?
The Olympics are held every how many years?
What is 4
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry. Were like nobility but trampled on people to get rich
Robber barrons
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Andrew Carnegie
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
Walt Whitman's poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" was written about which U.S. President?
Abraham Lincoln
Invented the Model T, a car that was created on the assembly line and inexpensive enough for regular Americans to buy.
What is the Henry Ford?
A single group of people makes decisions for multiple companies and trade stocks.
What is a Trust?
What restaurant chain has commercials with the slogan "Eating' Good in the Neighborhood"?
What is Applebee's
Law that eliminated trusts?
What is the Sherman AntiTrust Act?
Three benefits of the Transcontinental Railroad
-West population growth
-travel across the country
-Goods were easily transported
American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Trypophobia is the fear of what?
Holes
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
Telephone
Mark Twain coined this term as a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
Free Points for Both Teams!
What is Vertical Integration
The founder of the Standard Oil Company,
Who is John D Rockefeller
Strike ended when a bomb went off in a crowd
Haymarket Affair
Who flew from England to America in a giant peach carried by seagulls?
James
The Wright Brothers invented the first
What is Airplane?
What is horizontal integration?
No one knows where this snack got its name, but is known as a knock off from Hydrox. This cookie became America favorite vegan cookie.
What is the Oreo?
When you try to JOIN competing industries together so you can control the industry is called____.
Horizontal Integration
Three causes of westward expansion
Gold
Homestead Act
Transcontinental Railroad
The tragedy that led to the death of 146 garment workers in New York, which would lead to better working environment laws?
IQ tests are designed to produce what number as an average course?
100
This process was the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process
This innovation in factories, especially the car industry, created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans.
What is the assembly line?
In the Harry Potter book series what was Lord Voldemort's real name?
Tom Marvolo Riddle
An economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government,
what is capitalism
A company that puts all competition out of business, rises prices and controls all of a product's production
What is a monopoly?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost.
What is the Homestead Act?
What children's books character is scared of Heffalumps and Woozles?
Winnie the Pooh or Piglet
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost.
What is the Homestead Act?
This fast food chain is credited with selling the very first hamburger chain, selling their first burger in 1921 for 5 cents each.
What is White Castle?
As a result of a bomb going off at the Haymarket Affair and killing seven police officers, this union greatly decreased.
Knights of Labor
Two groups built most of the transcontinental railway.
What are Irish and Chinese immigrants?
What is the Homestead Strike?
What is the largest bone in the human body?
Femur