Go West!
Doodads and Whatnots
Money Money Money
Which Side are you on
Who said it?
100
This railroad connected the eastern and western parts of the United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
This inventor is associated with developing the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This economic system relies on private businesses and competition.
What is capitalism?
100
This is a work stoppage used by workers to demand better conditions or pay.
What is a strike?
100
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
This law offered settlers up to 160 acres if they lived on and cultivated the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
What invention was critical in railroads scheduling train arrivals and departures?
What is the telegraph?
200
This is a business organization that can raise money by selling shares of stock.
What is a corporation?
200
This labor organization supported an eight-hour workday and an end to child labor.
What is the Knights of Labor?
200
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Who is Eugene V Debs?
300
Explain two ways the U.S. government attempted to assimilate Native Americans into white American culture.
What are Residential Schools and Reservations?
300
This inventor invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
This business strategy involves buying or controlling companies in the same industry.
What is horizontal integration?
300
Name three groups of people who entered the industrial workforce in large numbers during the late 1800s.
What is immigrants, women, children, african americans?
300
“The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.”
Who is John D Rockefeller?
400
This government agency managed policies affecting Native Americans, including reservation policies.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs? (BIA)
400
This process made steel production faster and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
What mopolists dominated the oil and steel industry? (which is which!)
Who is John Rockefeller (oil) and Andrew Carnegie (steel)?
400
This belief held that competition allowed the strongest individuals and businesses to succeed.
What is social darwinism?
400
"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie
500
What was the first and last name of the man responsible for creating the Carlisle Industrial School?
Who is Richard Pratt?
500
What invention was created by Alfred Nobel?
What is dynamite?
500
What famous person does Mr Monopoly depict?
Who is Finance Monopolist JP Morgan?
500
What are two examples of famous strikes that occured in the late 1800s?
Pullman
Haymarket
Homestead
500
“From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce