Politicians and inventors
Trains
Writers
Labor issues
muckrakers
100
was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
What is Thomas Edison
100
What is the largest span of railroads in the united states
What is the union pacific railroad
100
Who wrote the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What is Mark Twain
200
He made and owns the patent for the telephone
What is Alexander graham bell
200
the means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks.
What is a railroad
200
Who wrote the call of the wild
What is jack london
200
waving this gets people fired up
What is the bloody shirt
200
A muckraker who used his camera to show poverty.
What is Jacob Riis
300
was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices.
What is William Howard Taft
300
was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages.
What is the pullman strike
300
Who wrote "A Night In Acadie" "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour"
What is Kate Chopin
300
was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.
What is knights of labor
300
A female muckraker who wrote a book called the History of the Standard Oil Company
What is Ida Tarbell
400
He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from Louisville, Kentucky.
What is Louis D. Brandeis
400
a nationwide railroad shop workers strike in the United States, began on July 1 and was the largest railroad work stoppage since 1894. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages would be cut by seven cents on July 1.
what is The Great Railroad Strike
400
who wrote a century of dishonor
What is Helen Hunt Jackson
400
was the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AF of L (American Federation of Labor).
What is National Labor Union
400
A famous muckraker who also was an author
What is Upton Sinclair
500
The 28th president of the united states?
What is Woodrow Wilson
500
It is a railroad built from California to Utah.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad
500
He wrote the jungle
What is upton sinclair
500
they took over after the knights of labor went away.
What is the American Federation of Labor
500
A famous muckraker who was an journalist.
What is Lincoln Steffans