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Immigrants I
Immigrants II
Innovators/Inventions I
Innovators/Inventions II
Corruption
100
More than 70% of immigrants arrived via this island.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Russian Orthodox Church declared the Jews weren't Russian, the Czar agreed and led a massacre of Jews.
What is the pogroms?
100
Led to the eventual invention of keyboards and word document programs.
What is the Typewriter?
100
Device that was created by Morse and is now obsolete.
What is the telegraph?
100
He paid immigrants to vote the way he wanted.
Who is "Boss" Tweed.
200
More than 1500 of this immigrant group died aboard the Titanic.
Who are the Irish?
200
They arrived through Angel Island in San Francisco.
Who are the Chinese?
200
Created TNT and donated his money to a prize fund.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
200
Created the telephone and the switchboard.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Charging additional tax on whiskey to make a profit.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
300
Neighborhoods where people shared ethnic origins and traditions.
What are the slums and ghettos?
300
She wrote the poem titled "The New Colossus."
Who is Emma Lazarus?
300
Drilled for oil before losing everything due to being a bad business man.
Who is Edwin Drake?
300
Created the air brake and also opened an electric company.
Who is George Westinghouse?
300
These men tried to corner the market on gold on Black Friday.
Who are Fisk and Gould?
400
Signed between Teddy Roosevelt and the Japanese.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
400
Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Wrote the "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
He was America's first billionaire after being a grain and meat merchant during the Civil War.
Who is John D. Rockefeller.
400
Stocks and cash bribes given to Congressmen to support the Union Pacific Railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier?
500
The Germans, Jews, Chinese, and people from 24 other Eastern European Countries.
Who are the new Immigrants?
500
The Irish, Italians, Polish, and the Russians.
Who are the old Immigrants?
500
He has the most patents in U.S. History.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
They created motion picture film and the motion picture camera.
Who is Thomas Edison and George Eastman?
500
Known for its corruption scandals under a very corrupt boss, paid people to vote and ensured that they had who they wanted in office.
What is Tammany Hall?