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100
Who originally started work on the canal?
The French
100
Who monopolized the oil business and was cruel to many, but also donated millions.
John Rockefeller
100
What mill burned down and killed many in the process because of not having safe working conditions.
Triangle shirtwaist company
100
Grover cleveland is elected president.
1884
100
There were 35,000 miles of this in America 1865
Railroad Track
200
What disease killed many people until William Gorgus eradicated it.
Yellow Fever.
200
Helped the Panama canal project move forward, unexpectedly resigned with his reasons not ever told.
John Stevens
200
Where was the bomb thrown at policemen?
Haymarket Square
200
American Labor association is founded
1886
200
What is invented in 1899
Aspirin
300
Dirt was moved out of the dig sites by:
Trains
300
Born is scotland and major businessman in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
300
Why did the pullman strike happen?
The company lowered wages.
300
When was the homestead strike?
1892
300
Who designed the first "Safe Elevator"?
Elisha Graves Otis
400
More than 60,000,000 pounds of this was used in constructing the canal.
TNT
400
Who Dominated corporate finance and had one of the biggest book collections in America?
J.P. Morgan
400
Why did someone want to kill Henry Frick?
He made wages low and work conditions bad for his workers
400
Henry Frick is attacked in?
1892
400
New Yorks first skyscraper was named:
The Flatiron Building
500
How many workers lost their lives building the Panama Canal?
5,609
500
Who wrote The Wizard of Oz?
Lyman Frank Baum
500
What was the average hourly wage for a mill worker?
22 cents
500
When was the railway strike?
1877
500
How old was Andrew Carnegie when he died?
83