Important Names
This strike occurred when B & O railroad workers upset over wage cut of ten percent
What is the Railroad Strike of 1877?
The Emerald City represented this
What Washington D.C. and the source of money (green)
This piece of legislation targeted Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This drink, a mixture of opium and other ingredients, was popular in the West in the late 1800s.
What is a laudanum?
This strike occurred when Union workers were locked out of the steel mills when they refused to accept the wage cut
What is the Homestead Strike?
The Tin Man represented these people
Who are the workers?
This drug was common for toothaches in the late 1800s
What is cocaine?
This person vetoed the Texas Seed Bill in 1887
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This CO coal strike in 1914 resulted in the deaths of 21 men, women, and children.
What is The Ludlow Massacre?
The original color of Dorothy's shoes, and why
Silver...represented the push for silver introduced into the currency.
This event occurred in Denver on Halloween in 1880
What is the anti-Chinese riot in Denver?
This person invented this device as he worked on a way to help his wife and mother (both deaf) to speak.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone?
This violence occurred when Union leaders called a protest meeting .....several people were killed when police opened fire on the crowd
What is the Haymarket Affair?
The cowardly lion represented this person...
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The typical yearly salary for a worker in Rockefeller's refinery.
What is $500?
This 1871 fire resulted in 18,000 buildings destroyed, 250 dead, and 100,000 homeless
What is The Great Chicago Fire?
This person started a Denver area brewery near Clear Creek in the late 1800s.
Who is Adolf Coors?
Name reasons workers faced difficulties organizing and striking?
Lack of Federal Govt help, Fed Govt siding with owners, no regulation or protections, internal fighting, etc.
The Wicked Witch of the West represented....
John D. Rockefeller
The typical weekly hours worked in a steel factory.
What is 72?
This fire was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City.....146 deaths....and was a result of poor safety measures and the inability for people to escape.
What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911?