World's Fair
Suffrage
Consumer/Worker's Rights
Industrial Revolution
African Americans/Progressive Era
100
The main attraction at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 was this.
What is a ferris wheel?
100
This women fought for female workers' rights during the Progressive Era
Who is Alice Paul?
100
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" illustrated the conditions in this industry in Chicago
What is meatpacking/slaughterhouses?
100
These men were the two giants of the Industrial Revolution (based on the book, not our videos).
Who are Rockefeller and Carnegie?
100
This man was behind the environmental conservation of the Progressive Era
Who is John Muir?
200
The main attraction of the Chicago fair was built to upstage this structure from the World Fair in Paris 1889.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
200
This convention was the event that got the ball rolling for women's suffrage.
What is Seneca Falls Convention 1848?
200
This women was one of the biggest activists for child labor, especially after she witnessed many children missing fingers and hands from their work.
Who Mother Jones?
200
This President worked to regulate the giants of big business
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
Robert La Follette called for this group to elect party leaders, rather than the elite in the party.
Who are the people?
300
Most of the fair was later destroyed by these.
What are fires?
300
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
"The Jungle" caused Congress to act. This was their first piece of legislation.
What is the Meat Inspection Act? Pure Food and Drug Act?
300
This was the law that did not allow monopolies and trusts
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
300
Booker T Washington thought this should be the strategy of African Americans to gain equality
What is peaceful protest, and trying to fit in?
400
This anniversary was how the Fair was also called the Columbian Exposition (years and event)
What is 400th anniversary of Columbus Discovering the Americas?
400
This women was arrested for trying to illegally casting a vote before women were granted suffrage.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
400
Alice Paul was able to get 10 hour work days as well as this for expecting mothers
What is maternity leave?
400
Carnegie argued that Big Business was able to do this for the economy.
What is lower production cost that later lower prices for consumers?
400
This man thought action was needed to gain black equality
Who is WEB Du Bois?
500
Because of the appearance of the buildings, the fairgrounds were given this nickname.
What is the White City?
500
According to the 12 points of "why women should vote", their denial of suffrage was based not on reason, but on this.
What is prejudice?
500
"The Jungle" became the best selling book in America since this by Harriet Beacher Stowe
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
500
The concept that only the rich and powerful will survive in society was given this term. It also called for little government interference.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
The NAACP stands for this
What is the National Advancement for the Association of Colored Peoples?
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