The Civil War
Who escaped slavery to become a famous orator, writer, and abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
Who coined the phrase the Gilded Age?
Mark Twain
The name for overcrowded apartments in NYC
Tenements
He was the inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field.
Nikola Tesla
The current President of the United States
Joe Biden
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
What is a Robber Barron?
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
Poor fire safety and lack of regulations.
She famously refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested.
The 3rd President of the U.S.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who was known as the "Conductor of the Underground Railroad"?
How did Andrew Carnegie earn his millions?
Steel industry
The government organization created as a result of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Food and Drug Administration
He co-founded the NAACP and in his book wrote " the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of color line"
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Who is George Washington?
Who was President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What is Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest - only the strong survive and the weak die out
He was stripped of his boxing titles after refusing to enter into the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
More Americans died in the Civil War than any other U.S. War combined - true or false?
true!
What era comes AFTER the Gilded Age?
The man who took photographs of life in Tenement apartments.
Who is Jacob Riis?
He taught himself how to read and write.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This President was known for helping big businesses during the 1920s
Who is Calvin Coolidge?