Vocabulary
Men who built America
Unfair Business Practices
Upton Sinclair
Misc.
100
This is someone who reveals the underbelly or dark side of corporations and businesses.
What is a Muckraker.
100
This man created Standard Oil and was the first American Billionaire.
What is John D. Rockefeller.
100
Factory owners liked to use these kinds of people to work in the factory because they could be easily controlled and pay a cheaper wage.
What are children. What is Child Labor.
100
Upton Sinclair wrote a book called?
What is The Jungle
100
True or False: Electricity was a fairly new concept during the Progressive Era.
What is True.
200
This is when someone tries to to hurt a company's reputation or stop production. They may break something in the factory or write a nasty article about the company.
What is Sabotage.
200
This man created the largest steel company in America. He found an easy and cheap way to turn iron into steel.
What is Andrew Carnegie
200
Many Americans worked 12 hour plus days. This is known as a....
What is a long work day.
200
What was Upton Sinclair describing in his book?
What is The meat packing industry.
200
True or False: In some families children made up to 1/3 of the income for families?
What is True
300
Persuade (someone) to act in one's favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.
What is Bribery
300
This man electrocuted an elephant named Topsy to death to prove that AC electricity was more dangerous than DC electricity. He is also one of the inventors to the modern day light bulb.
What is Thomas Edison.
300
A factory owner is going to pay you .75 cents an hour. When other people are being paid $3.00 an hour. This is known as a what kind of wage.
What is a low wage.
300
Describe three biological items that may fall into the meat grinder.......
What is Rats - Urine - Poop - Blood - Body parts - Vomit - Maggots.......
300
What was one of the big problems with children working in factories and not going to school?
What is America was breeding a generation of illiterate children that only new how to work......
400
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
What is a Monopoly
400
This man was an American financier and banker who dominated the corporate finance world. He helped form General Electric and helped create the US Steel company.
What is J. P. Morgan.
400
Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit.
What is Discrimination
400
Describe the floor of these factories. What did they look like?
What is covered in dirt, blood, saw dust etc....
400
Did parents mind having children working in factories? Defend your answer!
What is Yes and No please explain why.
500
The nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others.
What is a Trusts
500
This man built his wealth in railroads and shipping. Built the New York Central Railroad.
What is Vanderbilt
500
A statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
What is a Threat
500
What is the meaning of the following quote. I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
What is Upon revealing the horrors found in he meat packing plants, Sinclair's book did not persuade people for change because of the poor working conditions, but because of what people were eating.
500
What Mr. Caruso's favorite color?
What is Blue
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