This court case ruled in favor of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
What is the Bessemer Process used for?
The process for making steel known as?
100
This means a company controls all production and distribution, as no competitors.
What is a monopoly?
100
This act limited the number of one specific immigrant group from coming to America.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
Most people moved to the cities in search of these.
What is jobs.
200
Upton Sinclair wrote _____________ in response to the poor sanitation practices of the meat packing industry.
The Jungle
200
Who Invented the light bulb which helped factories stay open later?
Who is Thomas Edison
200
What President was known as the trust buster because he blocked consolidating businesses under one company? (aka a monopoly)
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
200
This act/law called for the migration of Indians to reservations in the west.
What is Indian Removal Act?
200
Workers from the same trade/job that come together for the purpose of bargaining and negotiation. What is this??
What is a labor union.
300
This association was formed in an effort to fight the Jim Crow laws and seek rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
300
This allowed for goods/people to be shipped from the east coast to the west coast and vice-versa.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
This man was founder of the Standard Oil Company? He has a theater in New York named after him...
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
This was the name of the path Indians used to migrate to reservations in the west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This group of immigrants worked in harsh conditions such as rock slides and heavy snowfall to help build the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Chinese.
400
Roosevelt's "Square Deal" had 3 major objectives, name 2 of them...
What is conservations of natural resources, control over corporations, and consumer protection.
400
What are 2 negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What is pollution, crime, disease, big business corruption, racism towards immigrants, child labor, etc.
400
Who owned a monopoly in the steel industry?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This was the place immigrants from the east landed at. (Hint near New York)
What is Ellis Island?
400
Upton Sinclairs book, "the Jungle" exposed....
What is the horrible sanitation conditions in meat packing plants.
500
What is the difference between investigative journalism and yellow journalism?
What is investigative journalism is based on facts/research and is considered creditable information.
Yellow journalism presents un-researched news that has eye catching headlines.
500
The theory of Social Darwinism claim people and businesses were successful based on "Survival of ......."
What is "the fittest"
500
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt were all known as this term because they were extremely rich through shady business deals.
What is robber barons?
500
Provide 2 reasons immigrants came to the US.
What is they believed the streets were paved with gold (easy to get rich), lots of cheap land, jobs, start a new life.
500
Name 2 workplace or labor reforms that the Progressives fought for...
What is 8 hr workday, improved safety, better pay, not child labor, workers comp, and unionization.