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YUGE
Emails? What Emails?
Profits and Prophets
Dude!
You Go, Girl!
100
This was the nickname for the 1893 World's Fair, which was YUGE.
What is the Columbian Exposition?
100
What? A shadow third company? Paying off politicians and journalists who noticed? Nooooo. Come on, we're the Union Pacific! You can trust us! This wasn't a scandal in 1872-1873!
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
100
The Sioux took this prophet's message about the coming of a new world in the late 1880s.
Who is Wovoka?
100
Dude! We should totally take our profits and benefit society with, like, libraries and 'n stuff.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
You started Hull House? You go, girl!
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Not to be braggadocious, but I became a leading activist for labor after my rise during the Pullman Strike of 1894.
Who is Eugene Debs?
200
You have to have a public position and a private position. We think everybody should have a job, but really, we don't think that includes the Chinese, especially those working on the railroads and stealing our jobs. That's why we advocated for this piece of legislation (name and year).
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
200
This oil baron founded Standard Oil, made tremendous profits, and became an icon for the Gilded Age.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
Dude! Where's my steed? I once worked with Sitting Bull -- Sitting Bull, man! -- in my wild west show. Dude, do not call me Buffalo Bill.
Who is William F. Cody?
200
You made people realize that lynching was an injustice, not a just penalty.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
The Panic of 1873? It was a disaster. The whole thing was a disaster. It was started by career politicians who wanted to take these out of circulation.
What are greenbacks?
300
Whaaaat? I wasn't in charge of Tammany Hall! I just happened to know the right people!
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
300
His Looking Backward addressed how Gilded Age profits might be better distributed in the future, a place where, whoah, you can go to the corner mart and pay with a piece of plastic, dude!
Who is Edward Bellamy?
300
Dude! I got hammered -- like, literally -- at the Battle of Little Bighorn. My long, wavy blonde do got crushed! People saw this as a national disgrace and called for revenge. A low point, they claimed, in the Gilded Age. Duuuuude.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
300
You wrote that "Farm life for women is a treadmill," and you knew, girl, when you wrote about "The Women in the Alliance Movement." I can dig it.
Who is Annie Diggs?
400
We need to stop immigration until we can figure out what is going on. The immigrant laborers and the socialists were the problem in this fiasco in May 1886.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
400
Compromise? It wasn't a compromise! We Republicans merely gave up enforcement of Civil War gains for African-Americans in the South, that's all, when we agreed that our nominee would be president, and not this nominee of the Democrats in 1877.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
400
The Ghost Dance, started by a prophet in Nevada, led to this massacre on December 29, 1890.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
400
Dude! I was president when the Whiskey Ring scandal came out, and I didn't even get any whiskey!
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
You were imprisoned by sugar-daddy Dole but resisted this injustice and your people eventually received an official apology. YGG!
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
500
You want to talk about comb-overs? The whole Gilded Age was a comb-over. And Mark Twain and this writer totally nailed it when they wrote the novel that gave the era its name.
Who is Charles Dudley Warner?
500
Socialism? It's not socialism! I just started a little experimental colony in Mexico where we all share the profits of organized monopolies, that's all.
Who is Alfred K. Owen?
500
She was a prophet, of sorts, advocating for women's rights and suffrage with the People's Party in Kansas.
Who is Mary Lease?
500
Dude! I wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth and became so disillusioned with capitalism that I became a socialist.
Who is Henry Demarest Lloyd?
500
You women were Progressive Maternalists, who advocated for change and organized activism, unlike these earlier women who only sought pensions from fallen sons and did not advocate for women's suffrage.
Who were Sentimental Maternalists?