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Important Names
Strikes/Protests
Wizard of Oz
The "Inside of the Gilded"
Lack of Regulation
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Established a monopoly of the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100

This strike occurred when B & O railroad workers upset over wage cut of ten percent

What is the Railroad Strike of 1877?

100

The Emerald City represented this

What Washington D.C. and the source of money (green)

100

This piece of legislation targeted Chinese immigration

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

100

This drink, a mixture of opium and other ingredients, was popular in the West in the late 1800s.

What is a laudanum?

200
A leader in the steel industry who cut wages for his workers, which led to the Pullman strike.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200

This strike occurred when Union workers were locked out of the steel mills when they refused to accept the wage cut

What is the Homestead Strike?

200

The Tin Man represented these people

Who are the workers?

200
Factories were dirty and had many people working in them causing them to be overcrowded. Owners sent some workers to these
What is a sweatshop?
200

This drug was common for toothaches in the late 1800s

What is cocaine?

300

This person vetoed the Texas Seed Bill in 1887

Who is Grover Cleveland?

300

This CO coal strike in 1914 resulted in the deaths of 21 men, women, and children.

What is The Ludlow Massacre?

300

The original color of Dorothy's shoes, and why

Silver...represented the push for silver introduced into the currency.

300

This event occurred in Denver on Halloween in 1880

What is the anti-Chinese riot in Denver?

300
Fought for shorter hours and better pay as the leader of the American Federation of Labor for 37 years
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400

This person invented this device as he worked on a way to help his wife and mother (both deaf) to speak.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone?

400

This violence occurred when Union leaders called a protest meeting .....several people were killed when police opened fire on the crowd

What is the Haymarket Affair?

400

The cowardly lion represented this person...

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

400

The typical yearly salary for a worker in Rockefeller's refinery.

What is $500?

400

This 1871 fire resulted in 18,000 buildings destroyed, 250 dead, and 100,000 homeless

What is The Great Chicago Fire?

500

This person started a Denver area brewery near Clear Creek in the late 1800s.

Who is Adolf Coors?

500

Name reasons workers faced difficulties organizing and striking?

Lack of Federal Govt help, Fed Govt siding with owners, no regulation or protections, internal fighting, etc.

500

The Wicked Witch of the West represented....

John D. Rockefeller

500

The typical weekly hours worked in a steel factory.

What is 72?

500

This fire was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City.....146 deaths....and was a result of poor safety measures and the inability for people to escape.

What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911?