Astoria
Rockefeller
Corporate giants
Jim Crow
Solid South
100
Founder of Astoria, Oregon
Who is John Jacob Astor
100
Term for being the only company controlling the sale of a product
What is monopoly?
100
Person who makes normal the system of investing bank money in other industries
Who is JP Morgan
100
Jim Crows laws kept African Americans segregated in this part of society
What is public life (waiting rooms, schools, theaters, etc.)?
100
In general, much of the South/Midwest can be counted on to vote in this way in national elections
What is right/conservative/Republican?
200
Industry that uses Astoria for it's pristine qualities
What is film (entertainment)?
200
Company that became a monopoly on oil in the 1880s
What is Standard Oil?
200
JP Morgan controls this bank that is "new" to California
What is Chase?
200
The "scientific" justification for class distinctions/racism
What is Social Darwinism?
200
In general, much of the South voted for this party even before Abraham Lincoln became president
What is Democrat?
300
Astoria was the first to commercialize this fish
What is canned tuna?
300
Site of the GE headquarters and NBC news studios
What is Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock)?
300
Company that advises the Obama Administration and pays no taxes
What is General Electric (GE)
300
Violent method of murder even sanctioned in the North in the 1930s
What is lynching?
300
Color that denotes voting Republican on a map
What is red?
400
World-class luxury hotel in New York built on family fortune
What is The Waldorf-Astoria? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACV4Krf8JTQ
400
Term for pooling stock in multiple oil companies into one "holding company"
What is Trust?
400
Corporation with failed Bear Stearns CEO as chief, in control of Dodgers, patron of museums
What is Guggenheim?
400
Decade where second phase of KKK is most prominent
What is 1920s?
400
The year that marks the switch of the Solid South in voting preference
What is 1964?
500
Canned tuna company originally from Astoria
What is Bumble Bee?
500
Term for controlling every level/stage of oil production
What is vertical integration?
500
Company that bought Bell's telecommunications corporation and was a monopoly until the 1980s
What is American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)?
500
Original members of the KKK in 1865
Who are/What are ex-Confederate soldiers?
500
The reason the South switches its loyalty in national elections
What is Civil Rights (African American issues)? http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1960 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLDn7MjbF0
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