He owned Standard Oil Company and monopolized the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
This was the title given to investigative journalists who exposed corruption and scandal.
What are muckrakers?
100
These were laws that forced separation of whites and blacks in public spaces.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
This was a recent film about an inter-racial couple living in the Jim Crow south and fighting for their rights.
What is Loving?
100
This placed a tax on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This president opened 5 new national parks while pushing the conservation movement.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
Ida Tarbell wrote a series of articles titled this.
What is "History of Standard Oil Company"
200
This was one of Thomas Edison's most important inventions.
What is the light bulb?
200
This board game is also what you call when one business controls the market of a good or service.
What is monopoly?
200
This was the first successful colony in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300
He photographed immigrants exposing their difficult living conditions.
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
This book led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
What is the Jungle?
300
Samuel Gompers was a leader of this labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)
300
These were places people could go to participate in educational classes, receive medical care, and get help finding employment.
What are settlement houses?
300
This officially ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
He was an African American leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
Overcrowding in cities led to these two undesirable outcomes.
What are crime and disease?
400
This court case made the idea of "separate but equal" legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
No one knows who fired the first shot here, but 300 native americans were killed, including women and children.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
This rebellion illustrated that the Articles of Confederation were too weak because the federal government did not have the power to stop the uprising.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
He made his money in the railroad industry and has a university named after him.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
This event occurred when a rail car company lowered wages.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
This was a religious practice of Native Americans which they thought would bring about the end of the white man's power over them and the land.
What is the ghost dance?
500
This was an immigration center in San Francisco, California.
What is Angel Island?
500
This president was called compared to a king because of how much he strengthened the role of the presidency.