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A French term for a government policy of non-interference in business and industry
What is laissez-faire
100
Drilled the first successful oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859.
who is Edwin Drake
100
Great bone collection became a noted New York City museum founded in 1870.
What is American Museum of Natural History
100
Unknown in her own time - she is one of America's great poets.
Who is Emily Dickinson.
100
Major educational reformer.
Who is John Dewey
200
Federal law to prevent any combination in the form of trust or otherwise. It was meant to prevent monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act
200
Invented the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
This professional baseball league was formed in 1876 with eight teams.
What is National League.
200
Community centers located in poor urban districts to help the growing numbers of urban poor of the industrial era.
What are settlement houses.
200
The state with the most bars per capita.
What is North Dakota
300
Led by Gompers, a combination of craft unions established in 1886.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300
Invented the light bulb in 1879.
Who is Thomas Edison
300
First professional baseball team
What is Cincinnati Red Stockings.
300
The oldest and most prestigious college in the US was at the forefront of educational reform.
What is Harvard
300
The oldest NFL franchise in continuous operation with the same name in the same location.
What is the Green Bay Packers
400
The belief that human interactions, successes and failures were governed by the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism
400
Steel giant.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
400
Inventor of modern American football
Who is Walter Camp.
400
Preaching the Social Gospel, Charles Sheldon's "In His Steps" urged readers to ask themselves this before taking any action.
What is "What would Jesus do?"
400
President in of the USA in 1876
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform
What is the Social Gospel
500
Founded Standard Oil Company in Cleveland in 1870.
Who is John Rockefeller
500
A type of literature that examined social challenges and political corruption.
What is Realism
500
He lampooned the sentimentality and hypocrisy of Victorian Culture - calling it the "Gilded Age." He also wrote Huckleberry Finn (1884).
Who is Mark Twain.
500
The first Star Wars movie was released in theaters in this year.
What is 1977.
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