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Sports and Commercial
Famous Inventions/Inventors
Packingtown
Standard Oil Company
Education
100
baseball.
What sport became the national pastime?
100
their first airplane flight
What did the Wright Brothers stage in 1903?
100
Meatpacking
What industry did Packingtown thrive on or was most know for?
100
John D Rockefelle
Who founded the Standard Oil company
100
Yes.
Did the expansion benefit women?
200
1850s
When was the first baseball club organized?
200
Thomas Edison
Who invented the alkaline storage battery and a lamp that burned for more than 13 hours?
200
Illinois
What state was Packingtown located in?
200
1870
What year was the Standard Oil Company founded?
200
The last three decades of the nineteenth century.
When did the idea of universal free schooling take hold?
300
1876
What year was National Baseball founded?
300
1876
What year did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?
300
German and Irish
What nationality/ethnicity were the first "knife men"?
300
Political cartoons
What type of popular drawings were mostly about Rockefeller's hold on the oil industry?
300
1870/the end of the century
Fill in the blank. Public high schools increased in number from 160 in __ to 6000 by __.
400
Americans of many backgrounds.
What did organized sports and commercial amusements bring together?
400
1/3
Near the 20th century, America produced how many of the world's goods?
400
Amour, Cudahy, Morris, Schwarzschild and Sulzberger, and Swift
Name at least three of the "Big Five".
400
1911
In what year did the Supreme court demand the Standard Oil Company to break up?
400
1890
When did 47% of the nation's colleges and universities admit women?
500
Built baseball parks seating 10000, and special private boxes for the wealthy. Became the foremost figure in the National League.
What did Albert Spalding do?
500
19th century
What century were there several revolutions in technology and transportation?
500
Refrigerated railroad car
What made it possible for shipping meat nationwide?
500
Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, and Sohio
Name at least three modern industries that descended from the Standard Oil Company.
500
African Americans were often excluded from colleges attended by white students, and special colleges were founded shortly after the Civil War.
Why did the expansion of education not benefit all African Americans in the same way?