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Hodgepodge
100
He was the publisher of the New York World newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
100
Location of the busiest receiving station for immigrants in the United States.
What is Ellis Island, NY?
100
Complete control of a product or service in the economic market.
What is a monopoly?
100
The growth of cities and the movement of people to cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Name given to the last decades of the 19th century because it was characterized by a facade of prosperity?
What is the Gilded Age?
200
He developed a process for making stronger and lighter steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
200
Where Thomas Edison opened the first research laboratory.
What is Menlo Park, New Jersey?
200
A low cost multi-family dwelling, often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What is a tenement?
200
Programs that encouraged assimilation of immigrants into American culture, often provided through settlement houses.
What is the Americanization movement?
200
Law that banned entry of all Chinese to the United States with few exceptions.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Landscape architect who designed many urban parks including Central Park in New York
Who is Fredrick Law Olmsted?
300
Where the transcontinental railroad connected.
What is Promontory Point, UT?
300
Economic/political philosophy that favors public control of property and income.
What is socialism?
300
Economic policies which allow businesses to operate with minimal government regulation or interference.
What is laissez-faire?
300
1890 law that banned any trust that restrained interstate commerce or trade.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
He was the publisher of the New York's Morning Journal newspaper.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
400
Which state includes the locations of both the Haymarket Riot and Pullman Strike?
What is Illinois?
400
Theory that said that wealth and success were indicators that certain races were superior to others.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Tendency to favor American born people over new immigrants.
What is nativism?
400
System of consolidating companies involved in all steps of a product's manufacture.
What is vertical integration?
500
He developed the first safety elevator.
Who is Elisha Otis?
500
A section of New York City that became the center of the music publishing industry.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
500
Investors form group ownership of a company.
What is a corporation?
500
Type of show which included dancing, singing and comedy sketches.
What is vaudeville?
500
Founder of the American Railway Union and later ran for president five times?
Who is Eugene Debs?
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