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Inventors and Inventions
Discrimination
Big Business
100
railroad tycoon
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
Developer of Central Park and considered the "Father of Urban Planning"
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
100
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
Test given to voters to determine whether they could read and thus be eligible to vote. Used to prevent African Americans and poor, white southerners from voting.
What is a Literacy Test?
100
what big businessmen were called that practiced philanthropy
What are captains of industry?
200
Founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
labor leader that turned socialist; ran for president 5 times
Who is Eugene Debs?
200
developed the incondescent light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
An annual tax that had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth.
What is a Poll Tax?
200
way to form a monopoly where the company owns all the means of production from the natural resources to the finished product
What is vertical integration?
300
Believed that well-educated, African American leaders should attempt to be immediately included in mainstream life and was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
built the first mass produced car using the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
300
It's intended purpose was to allow disenfranchised whites, who were too poor to pay the tax or who could not read, the right to vote based on whether he, his father, or grandfather had been eligible to vote before Jan. 1, 1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
300
what big businessmen were called because they made profits because they paid workers low wages and worked them long hours in unsafe conditions
What are robber barons?
400
Scottish immigrant whose life was a rags to riches story
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
African American reformer who tried to end lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
They designed the biplane that flew successfully at Kitty Hawk?
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
400
Laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
type of business arrangement where competing businesses are all owned by the same group of people
What is a trust?
500
leader of the AFL
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
one of two New York newspaper publishers who competed for readers by employing yellow journalism.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer or William Randolph Hearst?
500
built the modern sewing machine
Who is Elias Howe?
500
Established the principle of "Separate But Equal", allowing states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal service. Unfortunately the "separate" part was strongly enforced, but the "equal" part was not.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
a business arrangement where all the producers agree to fix the prices of the product
What is a cartel?
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