This was the primary mode of transportation for immigrants at the turn of the century.
What is a boat?
100
In this story, a girl freezes to death because she don't complete a day's work and her father will beat her because of it.
What is Little Match Girl?
100
To build his Model T car, Henry Ford used this new method to manufacture a product quickly and efficiently. Years later on tv, I Love Lucy did the same with chocolate.
What is an assembly line?
100
Creating sensational headlines and flat-out lies within your newspaper is known as this kind of journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
100
This small island in the Caribbean was the issue that led to the war.
What is Cuba?
200
Irish immigrants were discriminated against when they got to America. The biggest PUSH factor that led them here was this.
What is the Potato Famine?
200
The workforce of textile mills were dominated by this gender.
What is female?
200
This material allowed NYC to build tall buildings and skyscrapers.
What is steel?
200
Journalists, like Upton Sinclair, who worked to create change are called this funny-sounding name.
What are muckrakers?
200
America entered the war when this ship was sunk.
What is the USS Maine?
300
If you did not pass this because you did not study your American Presidents well enough, you would not be let into the country.
What is a citizenship test?
300
At the turn of the century, you could find men building the Empire State Building. However, they may be missing this very important item.
What is a harness/safety belt?
300
When workers were unhappy with their working conditions, they began to form these groups that fought for fair wages and hours.
What is a labor union?
300
This author wrote the book, The Jungle, which examined the horrors of the food industry--rats in meat, workers losing body parts, sausage made out of feces.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Most of the Spanish-American War was fought in this kind of landform.
What is the ocean?
400
Niamh boarded a train and traveled out West to a new family--where her adopted father tried to rape her--in this book.
What is Orphan Train?
400
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed over a hundred employees because the owners did this--a fatal mistake.
What is locking the door?
400
This negotiation technique involves unhappy workers refusing to work until they got fair wages or hours. We still see this technique used today, like in the Eric Garner case.
What is a strike?
400
This man was based at Tuskegee University and told Black Americans that education and entrepreneurship would be their only way out of oppression.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
The treaty that ended the Spanish-American war was named after this city of romance.
What is Paris?
500
Today, there is a museum that depicts life of immigrants when they first arrived. It is at 97 Orchard Street in this NYC neighborhood.
What is the Lower East Side?
500
This institution now owns the building where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire occurred.
What is New York University?
500
This nationwide railroad strike happened in the summer of 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
This reformer worked on a grab-bag of issues--including world peace and child labor laws. Her greatest victory, however, was getting women the right to vote.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
The Spanish-American war ended with the United States gaining new territory including the Philippines, Puerto Rico and this small island in the Pacific Ocean.