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potpourrii
100
This person was the first to successfully remove oil from beneath earth's surface using a steam engine.
What is Edwin L. Drake
100
A new type of housing that conserved space by sharing side walls with neighbors.
What is row house?
100
the selective service act required this.
What is having men being required to register for military service?
100
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What is the first powered airplane?
100
The cause of the urban sprawl in the 1920s.
What is the automobile?
200
Christopher Sholes is most famous for.
What is the typewriter?
200
A book that exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
What is "in the jungle"?
200
the Fordney-McCumber tariff
What is raise taxes on goods entering the untied states?
200
Frederick Law Olmsed
What is a landscape architect that led a movement for planned urban parks?
200
This was not a sign of prosperity of the 1920s.
What is the success of the advertising industry?
300
The man who ran the american railway union and then ran for president as a socialist several times.
What is Eugene V. Debs?
300
The law that required truthful labels.
What is the pure food and drug act?
300
the invention of steel frame work and elevators made this possible.
What is skyscraper?
300
inventor of the popular roll-film camera
What is George Eastman?
300
This place was not imperialist powers in the late 1800s
What is china?
400
Andrew Carnegie did this.
What is made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits?
400
journalists were called.
What is muckrackers?
400
the Tuskegee institute did this.
What is founded by Booker T. Washington and was developed to help African Americans develop useful job skills?
400
railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees
What is George Pullman?
400
row houses were...
What is new type of housing that conserved space by sharing side walls with neighbors?
500
He competed with william randolgh hearst and published sensational stories in his newspapers.
What is Joseph Pulitzer?
500
This act required applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.
What is the Pendleton civil service act?
500
what the Espionage and Sedition acts did and how.
What is affected freedom of speech because they allowed the government to silence ideas that challenged it's authority?
500
He believed that he needed to protect the american people from political radicals.
What is Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer?
500
Theodore Roosevelt got this for ending the war between Russia and Japan.
What is the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?