CAPTIANS OF INDUSTRY
CLUE: This man built his fortune in steel and later gave most of it away, funding more than 2,500 public libraries.
RESPONSE: Who is Andrew Carnegie?
CLUE: This word means a work stoppage, where employees refuse to work until their demands are met.
RESPONSE: What is a strike?
CLUE: This word means giving up your own culture, language, and traditions in order to blend into the dominant culture.
RESPONSE: What is assimilation?
CLUE: This inventor developed a practical light bulb and the phonograph, earning the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park."
RESPONSE: Who is Thomas Edison?
CLUE: Completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, this project linked the eastern rail network to California.
RESPONSE: What is the transcontinental railroad?
CLUE: Business leaders borrowed Charles Darwin's ideas about nature and applied them to society, arguing that the rich were rich because they were the fittest and that helping the poor only interfered with natural progress.
RESPONSE: What is Social Darwinism?
CLUE: This oilman founded Standard Oil and controlled about ninety percent of American oil refining.
RESPONSE: Who is John D. Rockefeller?
CLUE: This man founded the American Federation of Labor and focused on better wages, hours, and working conditions for skilled workers.
RESPONSE: Who is Samuel Gompers?
CLUE: Opened in 1892, this New York Harbor station was where most European immigrants entered the United States.
RESPONSE: What is Ellis Island?
CLUE: This process blasted air through molten iron to burn out impurities, making steel cheap enough to build railroads, bridges, and skyscrapers.
RESPONSE: What is the Bessemer process?
This 1862 law offered 160 acres of free land to any settler willing to farm it for five years.
RESPONSE: What is the Homestead Act?
CLUE: Critics used this insulting nickname for wealthy industrialists, arguing they got rich by cheating workers and crushing competitors.
RESPONSE: What are robber barons?
CLUE: Children as young as five worked in mills and mines during this era. Reformers pushed for laws banning this practice.
RESPONSE: What is child labor?
CLUE: This 1882 law banned immigrants from one specific country, the first U.S. law to bar an entire nationality.
RESPONSE: What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
CLUE: This man patented the telephone in 1876, allowing voices to travel over wire for the first time.
RESPONSE: Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
CLUE: The Central Pacific hired thousands of workers from this country to blast tunnels through the Sierra Nevada, often in deadly conditions.
RESPONSE: What is China?
CLUE: Carnegie bought his own iron mines, ships, and railroads so he controlled every step of making steel. What is this business strategy called?
RESPONSE: What is vertical integration?
CLUE: This 1892 strike at a Carnegie steel plant in Pennsylvania turned violent when the company hired armed Pinkerton guards.
RESPONSE: What is the Homestead Strike?
CLUE: This West Coast station in San Francisco Bay processed immigrants arriving from Asia.
RESPONSE: What is Angel Island?
CLUE: Elisha Otis's safety version of this invention made it practical to construct buildings more than five or six stories tall.
RESPONSE: What is the elevator?
CLUE: Because every town once set its clocks by the sun, railroads divided the country into four of these in 1883 so schedules would make sense.
RESPONSE: What are time zones?
CLUE: Passed by Congress in 1890, this law made it illegal for companies to form monopolies that restrained trade.
RESPONSE: What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
CLUE: This 1894 railroad strike began in a company town outside Chicago and was ended when President Cleveland sent federal troops.
RESPONSE: What is the Pullman Strike?
CLUE: This term describes overcrowded, poorly built apartment buildings where many urban immigrant families lived.
RESPONSE: What are tenements?
CLUE: Edison built this New Jersey facility in 1876, the world's first industrial research laboratory, where teams of workers invented on schedule.
RESPONSE: What is Menlo Park?
CLUE: This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual family plots, aiming to force Native Americans to become farmers and give up their culture.
RESPONSE: What is the Dawes Act?