This was the dominant industry in early 19th century America. It involved turning raw materials into thread and/or clothing.
What is the textile industry?
100
This devastating event in 1871 destroyed much of the city of Chicago.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
100
People who believed that success was only based on skill and hard work rather than luck and that the best people would be were called this.
Who were Social Darwinists?
100
This the type of corruption that occurs when people vote multiple times in order to help their candidate win.
What is voter fraud?
100
These are the two teams who just played in the baseball World Series.
Who are the Royals and the Mets?
200
One of the richest men in history, John D. Rockefeller, was the leader of this industry in America.
What is the oil industry?
200
These are three of the negative aspects of city life in the 19th century (and today).
What is crime, pollution, disease, corruption, (I may accept others)?
200
This is when young people work jobs, usually instead of going to school.
What is Child Labor?
200
This is one of the ways in which political bosses would gain the support of recent immigrants.
What is giving them food or jobs?
200
This was the last state admitted to the United States.
What is Hawaii?
300
The final spike of the trans-continental railroad was hammered in in this state.
What is Utah?
300
These are at least 2 reasons why immigrants often formed communities within cities.
What is a shared language, culture, religion, food, finding people to help them get settled in America, (I may accept others)?
300
This is one of the negative effects of Child Labor. (Many answers are acceptable.
What is that children were denied an education, often worked long hours, often worked in dangerous conditions (I may accept others).
300
This was the name of the jobs for support system which existed in many political machines.
What is patronage?
300
This was the score of the Intrinsic Middle School Boys soccer game vs. Ames Middle School.
What is 2-0 for Intrinsic!
400
This important man-made water way connected New York City to Chicago by way of the Great Lakes and encouraged western expansion.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
This is the name of the poem in the Statue of Liberty which welcomes all immigrants to America.
What is "The New Colossus?"
400
This set of beliefs about wealth held that because God chose certain people to be successful, it was their duty to help others in need and make society a better place.
What is "The Gospel of Wealth?"
400
In this 1904 book, muckraker Lincoln Steffens exposed big city corruption and shocked many readers.
What is "The Shame of Cities?"
400
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This was the first chartered railroad in the U.S. It is memorialized in a popular board game.
What is the B&O Railroad?
500
The Chinese Exclusion Act, which said that the Chinese were no longer welcome in the U.S., was passed in this year.
What is 1882?
500
A recent study of wealth in America estimated that the top 1% of people hold this percentage of the nation's wealth.
What is 40%?
500
This leader of the Tammany Hall political machine was perhaps the most well known "Boss" off all time.
Who was Boss Tweed?
500
This student was voted most likely to become president in last year's 7th grade family feud. (Hint, he still goes here.)