Gilded Age
This town was destroyed by greed. The water helped too.
What is Johnstown?
**Daily Double** This was the first major, successful labor union in the United States.
What is Knights of Labor.
This is the university that Roosevelt attended.
What is Harvard?
The Plains Indians considered this animal sacred.
What are Buffalo?
This is the key idea behind laissez-faire economics.
What is the government should be hands off.
This union only accepted white skilled workers.
What is American Federation of Labor.
Roosevelt was affected by this disorder when he was young.
What is asthma?
I was a famous law man in the West. When I retired I went to Hollywood and inflated my legend.
Who was Wyatt Earp?
The idea that if I work hard I can become rich.
What is the American Dream?
This intense, brutal man was Carnegie's partner in the steel industry and ran the Homestead Plant
Who was Henry Clay Frick
This event caused Roosevelt to move west.
What is the death of his wife and his mother.
We are the perfect example of the so called "Gentlemen Thieves." When we robbed people they were actually happy to meet us.
Who was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
I coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain
This was a common tactic used by labor unions in an attempt to stop all production.
What is strike.
When you own a majority of a single industry and have no competition.
What is a monopoly?
Roosevelt eventually became the head of this organization in New York City.
What is the New York Police?
I was a Lakota Sioux warrior who fought against Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Unlike the other guy I have no large monument.
Who was Sitting Bull?
This is the idea that the poor are poor because they are weak.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is the name given to workers that management brings in to replace the ones on strike.
What is scab
This is when a group of owners get together to set and raise prices of a single industry.
What is a Trust.
**Daily Double** This is what Roosevelt wrote in his diary the day his wife died.
What is "The light has gone out of my life."
I wrote a thesis about the decline of American society now that our purpose of Manifest Destiny is finished.
Who was Frederick Jackson Turner?