This 19th century inventor worked with James Watson to invent the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
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A business that completely controls an industry.
What is a monopoly.
100
Why did people settle in the cities?
What is to find work.
100
Two reasons immigrants left their home countries and came to America?
What are: to escape religious persecution, to find political freedom, to find a better life, to find work, to escape proverty, to escape disease or other disaster.
100
A group of journalists who wrote about dangerous working conditions, dishonest politicans, and other social ills evident in the US at the beginning of the 20th century.
What are muckrakers?
200
I am a scientist from Missouri. I helped farms find ways to improve their soil by rotating their crops. I also invented numerous products that used peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver.
200
When small business join together and act as one.
What is a trust?
200
When workers join together to work for better working conditions.
What is a labor union?
200
Crowded neighborhoods that were often run down and dirty.
What are slums?
200
Author of "The Jungle" which exposed the unisanitary and dangerous conditions of the meat packing industry in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Two brothers who proved that flight was possible by flying for 12 seconds in Kitty Hawk, NC.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright.
300
This business man purchased a steel mill near Pittsburgh, PA and eventually came to control the American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
A tactic used by labor unions in which the workers refused to work until the employer met their demands.
What is a strike?
300
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Most immigrants settled in _______________ because there were jobs to be found there.
A) cities B) farms C) suburbs D) Ellis Island
What is A) cities?
300
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
400
How did Morse Code and the telegraph affect communication?
A) People could talk directly to each other over long distances. B) Messages could be sent instantly. C) Messages now took half the time to send. D) There was no effect on communication.
What is B) Messages could be sent instantly.
400
As the corporate head of the Standard Oil Company this man became one of the most successful businessmen of the 19th century.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
What were the working conditions like for workers American cities in 1900?
A) Workers often worked long hours B) Workers often worked in dangerous conditions C) Workers often received low wages for their labor D) All of the above.
What is D) All of the above.
400
Hull House, founded by Jane Addams, became a prototype for this type of charity which offered education, job skills, housing assistance and English language classes to immigrants.
What is a settlement house?
400
The time period from 1919 to 1933 in which the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol was illegal in the United States.
What is Prohibition?
500
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park", this inventor held over 1,000 U. S. Patents. The lightbulb is among his most famous invention.
Who is Thomas Edison.
500
Why was steel an important industry in America during the late 1800s?
A) It was inexpensive to make B) It was heavier than iron. C) It was used in the construction of railroads, buildings and bridges. D) It was easier to make than other materials.
What is C) It was used in the construction of railroads, buildings and bridges.
500
The reason many Americans opposed the power held by monopolies such as Standard Oil Company, Carnegie Steel and US Steel.
What is they feared that monopolies could result in unfair prices and unfair treatment of workers.
500
Immigrants from Europe usually came through Ellis Island in New York. What port of entry did immigrants from Asia pass through?
What is Angel Island?
500
Standard Oil was forced to break up into smaller company's after this author's works were published.