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"Random" American History
100
By 1910 this percentage of the American population were city dwellers.
What is 50%
100
Before the end of the US Civil War, most immigrants to the United States came from _______________.
What is northern Europe?
100
By many state laws, factory workers in 1900 had to be at least ____ years of age and could not work more than ____ hours per day.
What is 12 and 10? (although these laws were frequently broken by employers).
100
This railroad tycoon built an American Empire and had a university in Tennessee named after him.
Who is Vanderbilt?
100
The first three US Presidents in order.
Who are Washington, Adams, & Jefferson?
200
Poor, rundown neighborhoods previously called tenements.
What are slums?
200
The movement against immigration that became more popular in the 1890s was called _______________.
What is the Nativist Movement?
200
Labor unions represented workers in ____________ - a term/phrase that describes a group of workers negotiating with management.
What is collective bargaining.
200
Standard Oil, often portrayed by cartoonists as a "monopoly monster" was owned by this businessman.
Who was John D. Rockefellar?
200
The process for the creation and ratification of an Amendment to the US Constitution.
What is passed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress and ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures?
300
The women in this picture represent the rich and elite during what era in American History?
What is the Gilded Age?
300
The port of entry for immigrants arriving on the east coast of the United States atop which sits the Statue of Liberty.
What is Ellis Island?
300
Following the _____________ of 1886, many Americans associated the labor movement with terrorism and disorder.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
300
The three factors of production...
What are land, labor, and capital?
300
This famous American wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
400
Included families of professional people such as doctors, lawyers and ministers... managers, salaried office clerks...
What is the middle class?
400
The entry point for [mostly] Asian immigrants arriving to the west coast of the United States.
What is Angel Island?
400
This type of court order stops a trade union from obstructing or holding up business or other necessary functions.
What is an injunction.
400
A group of companies managed by the same board of directors.
What is a trust?
400
The event depicted here (explain based upon context clues/observed details):
What is the defeat of a British ship by an American ship during the War of 1812.
500
This religious organization offered recreation centers where city youngsters could meet and play (four letters)...
What is the YMCA?
500
After the Civil War... especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s most Europeans emigrated from...
What is southeastern Europe (Italy, Romania, Germany, etc.)
500
Crowded urban factories with poor working conditions were often known as this.
What are sweatshops?
500
A measure passed by Congress in 1890 with the intention of prohibiting trusts and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
This Catholic Father surveyed the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, was a member of the Jesuit Order, and worked with Louis Joliet.
Who is Fr. Jacques Marquette?