People of Industry
His company was named Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Railroad strike, President Hayes intervenes on the side of the RR companies in 1877
Choices: Strike of 1877 - Haymarket - Homestead - Pullman Car
What is the Strike of 1877?
12 -14 hour workdays, 6 days a week
Choices: Poor Ventilation - Sexual Harassment - Beatings and Abuse - No Breaks - Monotonous Work
What is Long Hours?
This transport is a large animal mainly seen in the plains of Wyoming
What is Buffalo?
This state has more people than Canada, despite the fact that Canada is more than 2,000 percent larger in size than this state.
What is California?
This man invented the light bulb and the power distribution for energy.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Workers struck against pay cut and high rent. President Cleveland sent in troops to aid Pullman; Workers fired; Eugene Debs jailed
Choices: Strike of 1877 - Haymarket - Homestead - Pullman Car
What is the Pullman Car Strike?
Time was not given for a rest during working days.
Choices: Poor Ventilation - Sexual Harassment - Beatings and Abuse - No Breaks - Monotonous Work
What is No Breaks?
Trains transported to these places to deliver equipment, feed, and seed, and pick up crops.
What are Farms?
The heart of this aquatic sea creature is located in its head. Weird, yet cool.
What is a shrimp?
This man was in the industry of steel, used mainly by railroad tracks.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Carnegie steel workers went out on strike. Private police force (Pinkertons) opened fire on striking workers; 12 deaths in total
Choices: Strike of 1877 - Haymarket - Homestead - Pullman Car
What is the Homestead Strike?
Foreman and higher ups would mistreat workers by attacking them and hurting them
Choices: Poor Ventilation - Sexual Harassment - Beatings and Abuse - No Breaks - Monotonous Work
What is Beatings and Abuse?
These people took trains to bring home a prize animal from the West to eat the meat.
Who are Hunters?
Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in this state.
It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread
What is Missouri?
This inventor made the first telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
3,000 protesters in Chicago against police brutality. A bomb exploded in the crowd. American public turns on labor movement
Choices: Strike of 1877 - Haymarket - Homestead - Pullman Car
What is the Haymarket Strike?
Workers were inappropriately assaulted and approached to do things they did not consent with
Choices: Poor Ventilation - Sexual Harassment - Beatings and Abuse - No Breaks - Monotonous Work
What is Sexual Harassment?
This product was transported to be used to build houses and was harvested from trees in forms of logs or boards.
What is Lumber?
This is the human body’s largest organ.
What is skin?
If Chinese immigrants worked in the West, __________ immigrants worked in the East.
Who are the Irish?
The two groups of people were left out of the labor unions because of unfair practices.
Who are women and minorities?
Doing the same job all the time
Choices: Poor Ventilation - Sexual Harassment - Beatings and Abuse - No Breaks - Monotonous Work
What is Monotonous Work?
This railroad traveled across the country from the East to West, the first ever.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is the one letter of the alphabet you can NOT find in any state?
You only get one guess, so choose wisely!
What is the letter "Q"?