Gilded Age
This man made his fortune from steel following the invention of the Bessemer Process, leading to the development of the cities we recognize today.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Workers in early American factories had these type of work conditions.
What is unsafe?
What is the Revolutionary War?
Americans annexed this island nation for its strategic geographic location closer to Asia.
What is Hawaii?
J.D. Rockefeller made his fortune off of this newly developed form of energy.
What is petroleum?
This name was given to printing colorful cartoons and attention-getting headlines in the newspaper.
What is Yellow-Journalism?
Women protested to end this type of labor practice insisting that this group of people should be in school not work.
Who are children?
This war was fought between two factions of America which resulted in the end of slavery.
What was the Civil War?
American battleship Maine sunk off the coast of this island nation closest to mainland America.
What is Cuba?
The precursor to the pocket computer popular today was invented at this time by Alexander Graham Bell.
What is the telephone?
Many immigrants did not know how to read English making these illustrations a popular way for newspapers to convey information to their audience.
What is a cartoon?
Workers who join together for protection are members of this type of group.
What is a labor union?
This side fought for the North in the Civil War.
What is the Union Army?
Americans acquired this island nation taking it on as a territory and it has not yet become a state.
What is Puerto Rico?
The invention of this device would have made Guttenberg and his printing press proud, allowing people to write at home without a pen or pencil.
What is they typewriter?
This man went undercover in the Chicago meat industry to reveal the unsettling truth about the conditions of the factory and its food.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Workers who quit working to demand better wages and work conditions participate in this demonstration.
What is a strike?
Stoked by fears from Yellow Journalism, America entered this war to help Cuba gain their independence and acquire new territories.
What is the Spanish-American war?
America won the Philippines in this war.
What is the Spanish American War?
This company invented the device your generation uses for taking a selfie with your camera.
Who is Kodak?
This woman was born a slave and published the Red Record detailing lynching in the American South and was the first person to introduce anti-lynching legislation.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
When people protest a business because they don't like how they are treating their employees is called this.
What is a boycott?
The world will erupt into a number of conflicts that will come to be known as the first of these.
What is World War I?
America wanted to expand its military power and began building a large what?
What is the Navy?