Robber Barons
When a company or corporation controls all access to a particular good or service, and has no competition, it is called a...
Monopoly (Trust)
Status Quo
What famous toy is named after Theodore Roosevelt.
the Teddy Bear
The mass movement of people from rural areas into cities is called...
Urbanization
Name a sport created in the U.S. during the 1800s.
Baseball, Basketball, and Gridiron Football.
The U.S. President known as the "Trust Buster" who took down several monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Progressive journalists who dig up dirt on the bad side of city life and expose corruption in politics in the hopes of changing society for the better.
Muckrakers
Roosevelt helped this country gain its independence from Colombia and would build a famous canal there connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama
Name the Father of Capitalism and the Father of Communism.
Adam Smith & Karl Marx
Harry Houdini
Wealthy banker who was considered the "most powerful man in America" until his Monopoly was busted by President Roosevelt. He is the inspiration for the Monopoly Man from the boardgame.
John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan
Organized groups of workers who unite together to fight for better treatment, higher pay, and safer working conditions. Sometimes they go on Strike to force changes from their bosses.
The U.S. would go to war with Spain in 1898 after the warship USS Maine exploded in Havana and Spain was blamed for the explosion. Havana is the capital city of which country?
Cuba
Economic system with private property, freedom of choice, and business competition. It allows unlimited wealth but has no safety nets or assistance for the poor.
Capitalism
This person is considered the "world's smartest man". He was born in Germany but immigrated to the U.S. where he became a world famous scientist with his General Theory of Relativity.
Albert Einstein
He dominated the city of Pittsburgh with his U.S. Steel monopoly. He became a philanthropist in his old age and the logo of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team is based on his company logo.
Andrew Carnegie
Most immigrants arriving from Europe will land in a part of New York City called ______ _______, which is close to Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty is located.
Ellis Island
The Spanish-American War is one of the shortest wars in U.S. history. How long did the war last?
3 months
All people are equal, they all earn the same pay and benefits, no rich or poor. No competition or freedom of choice in business as the government owns all property and makes all economic decisions.
Name the inventors of the airplane and the inventor of the first reliable telephone.
Orville and Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers)
Alexander Graham Bell
One of the wealthiest people in world history, he dominated the American oil industry with his Standard Oil monopoly. His plaza in New York City is where the giant Christmas Tree is placed every year.
John Davison (J.D.) Rockefeller
Most European immigrants who chose to settle in Minnesota are from Nordic countries and are descendants of the ancient Vikings. Name 2 Nordic countries.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.
Name 3 territories acquired by the U.S. after the Spanish-American War.
Today the U.S. economy now has social programs to assist the poor, elderly, and disabled that are paid for with taxes on the wealthy and middle class. That makes the U.S. economy today a combination of Capitalism and __________.
Socialism
Name America's greatest inventor, known as the "Wizard of Menlo, New Jersey", who invented the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera; also name his greatest rival inventor who developed wireless electricity and remote controls.
Thomas Edison & Nikola Tesla