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Inventor of the light bulb and phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This man built steel mills and gave much of his own money to charity.
Who is Andrew Carneqie?
100
This is a company that controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
Immigrants entered U.S.A. and were examined here.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
100
A labor union leader who led a group of children to protest child labor.
Who is Mary Harris Jones ("Mother" Jones)?
200
Assisted in the invention of Bell's phone and Edison's lightbulb.
Who is Lewis Lattimer?
200
He was known for founding The American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
200
This is a large business that is owned by people who invest their money in the business.
What is a corporation?
200
This place has plentiful resources (fish, lumber, and oil) and gold was discovered in 1880's.
What is Alaska?
200
This man was one of the country's first conservationists.
Who is John Muir?
300
Inventor of the phone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
This woman was known for founding the Hull House.
Who is Jane Adams?
300
The investors who invest their own money into a corporation are called this.
What is shareholders?
300
This president broke up trusts that used unfair business practices, created new national parks, started wildlife refuges, showed power of U.S. in other lands, and is known for purchasing land from Panama, known as the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
President during the Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
400
Invented the oil cup.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
400
This former slave was known for founding the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
Factories with unhealthy working conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
400
This war showed the U.S. as a world power, and after this war the U.S. gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
Was Secretary of War, and ran for president after Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is William Howard Taft?
500
He invented the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
500
He started an oil refining business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
Is a community center that provides child care, education, and other services to the poor.
What is a settlement house?
500
This works by parts being taken to workers instead of workers to parts.
What is the assembly line?
500
He was president after William Howard Taft, and was the 28th president.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?