Gilded Age
The process of transforming the economy from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing is called this
What is Industrialization?
Who wrote The Jungle about the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
Which amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
26th Amendment
Who are the conmen that Huck and Jim encounter on their journey? (Huck Finn)
The King and the Duke
(Of Mice and Men) Who is the person that kills Lennie?
George
Who patented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Who wrote about issues involving African Americans in the south (particularly documenting lynching)?
Ida B. Wells
The Women’s Suffrage movement successfully passed which amendment?
19th
Who is the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
(Of Mice and Men) What is the dream that George and Lennie share throughout the novel?
Owning a ranch and living off the land
What new gilded age technology made tall buildings possible
Steel
Who took photographs of the urban poor?
Jacob Riis
This amendment gave citizens the right to elect Senators
17th Amendment
(Huck Finn) At the end of the book, Huck arrives on the Phelps Farm and pretends to be who?
Tom Sawyer
What is the name of the magical former Duke of Milan
Prospero
Organizations in which party bosses distributed food and jobs to immigrants and the poor in exchange for their vote were called this
Political machines
What was the name of the Civil Rights organization that Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois founded?
N.A.A.C.P.
This amendment outlawed the manufacture and transportation of alcohol
18th Amendment
This is the name of the main plantation that Douglass lived on
What is Great House Farm?
Who wrote "The Tempest"
Shakespeare
Who was the entrepreneur and steel company owner who advocated giving most of one’s fortune to charity?
Andrew Carneigie
Groups of workers who bargain with their employer are called
Labor Unions
What amendment gave the federal government the power to collect income taxes
16th
This is the major city Douglass lives in while working for Aulds.
What is Baltimore?
(Of Mice and Men) What gift does Slim give Lenny?
A puppy