Look What I Made?
This was the first person to use a steam engine to drill for oil.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved kickbacks during the building of this major infrastructure project.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The process in which a company buys out its suppliers is called...
What is vertical integration?
This was known as the inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast during the Gilded Age in the United States?
What is Ellis Island?
John D. Rockerfeller made his fortune in this industry.
What is the oil industry?
What is True?
This is the name of the 'process' used to make steel from iron developed by Henry Bessemer
What is the Bessemer Process?
Boss Tweed was the head of this city's powerful political democratic machine.
What is New York City?
The process in which companies producing similar products merge is called...
This was the inspection station for immigrants arriving to the United States on the West Coast during the Gilded Age.
What is Angel Island?
The Pendleton Civil Service Act implemented this type of system for hiring civil servants replacing the patronage system.
What is the merit system or a meritocracy?
This was the first black man invited to have dinner at the White House. The president was Theodore Roosevelt. Who was the black man?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Thomas Alva Edison made an improvement to this invention (often getting full credit for it's invention).
What is the light bulb?
If you give a government job to the people who helped get you elected is called this.
What is patronage?
_________ Darwinism teaches this in the business world and was based on the theories of Charles Darwin.
What is Social Darwinism?
This law limited Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A community center that helped address problems in slum neighborhoods was referred to as this.
What is a settlement house?
Who was the first black person to earn a PhD from Harvard University?
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The QWERTY keyboard (along with the typewriter) was invented by this person.
Who is Christopher Sholes?
An illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called...
What is a graft?
The Interstate Commerce Act was a law granting congress authority to regulate activities in this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
The Gentlemen's Agreement limited emigration to the United States from this nation?
What is Japan?
This type of system is designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes.
What is mass transit?
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This is the name of the act that outlawed Trusts and Monopolies in the United States.
What is the Sherman AntiTrust Act?
Andrew Carnegie was known to make his fortune in what industry?
What is the steel industry?
Showing favoritism towards native-born Americans is called this.
What is Nativism?
What is a tenement?
Who founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
George Eastman invented this device for the masses to capture images and share them
What is a portable camera
True or False?
The Plessy v Ferguson court case proved that a person could be 7/8 white and enjoy the benefits of white society.
What is False?
Why did Nicola Tesla quit working for Thomas Edison?
Thomas Edison promised to pay him $50k for a task and pretended it was just a joke, and never paid him.
True or false?
The immigrants from European countries had an overall easier time being processed through Ellis Island than those from Asian countries coming into Angel Island.
What is True. Many asians faces discrimination especially after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
This person was know for fighting against and trying to bring an end to the practice of lynching in the United States during the Jim Crow Era.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
What were at least two tactics used to disenfranchise African-Americans from voting during the Jim Crow era?
Poll Taxes, Literacy Test and Grandfather Clauses.