Railroads
Monopolies
Factories/Unions
Immigration
Mixed Bag
100
This needed to be created so all the trains could fit on all the tracks.
What is standard gauge?
100
one large company controlling all other smaller businesses
What is a monopoly?
100
People came to cities looking for what?
What is jobs?
100
This is a person who moves from their homeland to another country looking for a better life.
What is an immigrant?
100
Chinatown and Little Italy are examples of what?
What is ethnic neighborhoods?
200
Most railroads were built in which part of the US?
What is East
200
This was the period of time in history when farming societies became industrial societies. Goods were made by machines not by hand.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Most factories were safe or dangerous?
What is dangerous?
200
Name 3 countries immigrants came from.
What is Italy, Russia, Poland, Greece, Germany, Great Britain, China, Sweden, Ireland,France
200
Who was the first president of the United States?
What is George Washington?
300
As the US grew in size they needed a faster way of what
What is transportation?
300
The main goal of monopolies was to make what?
What is money?
300
Factory employees wanted people to speak for them. They got help from who?
What is Unions?
300
This is the island where the boats carrying immigrants would first stop once arriving in the US.
What is Ellis Island?
300
What is the name of the man who designed and built the first car? He started the Ford Motor Company in 1903.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
As more railroads were built, it became easier or harder to ship goods?
What is easier?
400
This man started the Standard Oil Company and grew it so big that it put all other oil companies out of business? He had to go to court.
What is John D Rockefeller?
400
Name one thing unions tried to get for the workers.
What is higher pay, 8 hour workday, safer workplaces.
400
If an immigrant was inspected and found to be sick, have a prison record or have no money, what would happen to them?
What is they would be sent back to their homeland?
400
Segregation laws kept African Americans separate from who?
What is white Americans?
500
railroads transported goods and what else to the cities
What is people?
500
Congress passed two laws to regulate monopolies - called what
What is Sherman Anti Trust Act and the Interstate Commerce Act
500
When company managers refused to talk with union leaders the workers would refuse to work. What is this called?
What is strike?
500
People got sick easily because of the living conditions. Name 2 other horrible conditions of the crowded cities.
What is garbage not collected, sewers backing up, no clean drinking water?
500
Name 5 of the 7 continents.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia