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Started a shipping company.

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

100

Designed to limit trusts and monopolies.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

100

Organizations created to unite and give rights to workers.

What are Labor Unions?

100

Wrote "The Origin of Species".

Who is Charles Darwin?

100

Last German offensive on the Western Front, December, 1944.

What is the Battle of the Bulge?

200

Had a fortune in railroads.

Who is James J Hill?

200

Law that regulated Tariffs.

What is the Mongrel Tariff?

200

Small, cramped housing for immigrants.

What are Tenements?

200

The application of evolutionary theory to social institutions.

What is Social Darwinism?

200

The great conflict between Australia, and birds.

What is the Great Emu War?

300

Invested in steel production.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

300

Laws that were passed in several states to regulate the railroad.

What are Granger Laws?

300

A tax on imports or exports.

What is a Tariff?

300

Famous writer under the pen name Mark Twain.

Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

300

CIA cat operation that ended when a Taxi killed the surgically modified cat.

What is Acoustic Kitty?

400

Known for founding an oil company. America's first billionare.

Who is John D Rockefeller?

400

Democratic Candidate elected in the 1884 election.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

400

When a company hold all the assets of a particular industry. They have no competition.

What is a Monopoly?

400

Formed a famous traveling circus. 

Who is P.T Barnum?

400

Botched CIA organized invasion of Cuba, 1961.

What is the Bay of Pigs?

500

Investment banker.

Who is J P Morgan?

500

Republican Candidate that defeated Cleveland in the 1888 election.

Who is Benjamin Harrison?

500

The name given to the period of the 1870's through the early 20th century in the United States.

What is the Gilded Age?

500

Famous Chicago Evangelist.

Who is D.L Moody?

500

Famous ship from 1912.

What is the Titanic?

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