Important People
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Random Facts
100
She was a muckraker who wrote amazing stories about things going on during her time. Sam McClure discovered her and noticed her talent in writing.
What is Ida Tarbell
100
What is an enormous company that was using unfair business practices (putting other competitors out of business). Founded by one the richest men alive.
What is the Standard Oil Company
100
Eugene Debs was a founder of this Union. Known as the Wobblies, these people organized many strikes for workers
What is the Industrial Workers of the World
100
They are people who wrote about the bad things happing like working conditions, cruel businessmen etc
What is muckraker
100
During this time there was economic crisis that created many strikes and riots.
What is the Panic of 1873
200
She was a very powerful and fearless women who worked the hardest to improve the life of children in the US. She was also known as "Mother......."
What is Maris Harris Jones
200
A gift from France; this statue stands in New York's Harbor and stands for liberty and welcoming people to the USA
What is The Statue of Liberty
200
This group was made up of skilled workers-the aristocrats of the working world-and not everybody could join. Also known as the American Separation of Labor. The wobblies hated them.
What is American Federation of Labor
200
a political and economic system where a country's trade (industries) are owned or controlled by private owners for profit (rather than the state)
What is capitalism
200
Immigration had little affect on the Gilded Age and most immigrants came with money and education. True or False?
What is False
300
This person was a poet who wrote the famous lines on the pedestal of Lady Liberty.
What is Emma Lazarus
300
At the time this was the second largest structure besides the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Called the "wonder of the world". It took 14 years to build and it was the longest.....in the world. John Augustus Roebling came up with idea and constructed the structure across the East River.
What is Brooklyn Bridge
300
This was also known as the "Bread and Roses Strike", involving the American Woolen Company (their Lawrence mill was the largest cloth-producing mill in the world)
What is Lawrence Strike
300
Preserving natural resources, wildlife or something in particular
What is conservation
300
Who was the person that termed the "Gilded Age"? Why?
What is Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. They made this sarcastic name to represent the ruthless business people that acquired wealth and luxurious lifestyles
400
He was born just before the Civil War. He was apart of the Spanish-American War. He grew up very wealthy and he soon became president after McKinley was assassinated.
What is Theodore Roosevelt
400
A huge project that took several years to construct and took the lives of many workers because of accidents, but mostly deadly diseases. Consists of the largest man-made river ever built at the time.
What is Panama Canal
400
There was a strike that was suppose to protest against a certain factory. The meeting was almost finished when more than 100 policemen marched in and demanded it to be over. Some unexpectedly throw a bomb at the policemen. After the crisis several were dead or dying and many injured. Who were they protesting against?
What is McCormick Factory, McCormick Harvester Works
400
A long severe slump/recession in an economy or market
What is depression
400
When did the Gilded Age start and end?
What is 1865 - 1900
500
He was a major part of the construction of the Panama Canal. He helped stop the most expensive war against a natural crisis.
What is William Gorgas
500
This was created by Frederick Law Olmsted a very famous architect who believed that cities should try to preserve some nature. It took he 20 years to build this grand.....New York
What is Central Park
500
There was a tragic accident that occurred in New York. resulting with several workers dead because of a massive fire-mostly all young girls and women. The owners of the company obviously ignored there huge strike a year before. What company were they protesting against?
What is the Triangle Shirt waist Factory
500
When people believe in the abolition of some sort of government
What is anarchism
500
Who wrote the famous book "How the Other Half Lives"?
What is Jacob Riis
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