Show:
Definitions
City Life
Business
Miscellaneous
Great Plains
100
What is a residential area on the outskirts of a city?
What is a suburb
100
This was a variety show that included comedians, acrobats and song-and-dance shows?
What Vaudeville
100
This is received by stockholders in return for their investments?
What is dividends
100
A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast?
Transcontinental railroad
100
These ended in cow towns that sprang up along railroad lines?
Cattle Drives
200
Define Lode:
a rich vein of gold or silver
200
The first skyscraper was built where and when?
In Chicago in 1885
200
Shares of a business sold to investors are known as?
What is stock
200
What two brothers were the first in flight and what year was their first flight?
Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903
200
Houses made of soil held together by grass roots?
Sod Houses
300
Define Vigilante:
organized group of self-appointed law enforcers
300
What is the movement of the population from the farms to the cities?
Urbanization
300
Define Corporation?
Business owned by investors
300
A large organization made up of many different unions?bent?
American Federation of Labor
300
What is a sled pulled by a dog or horse, used to transport Indian tepees?
What is a Travois
400
Define Yellow Journalism?
newspapers printed scandals, crime stories and gossip
400
Small apartments with no windows, no heat and no indoor bathrooms are called?
What is a tenement
400
Define trade union?
a group of people working in the same trade, organized to ensure better working conditions
400
Name the reason why many states improved public school education?
as industry grew - employers needed an educated workforce
400
A reason why a settler might have stayed on the Great Plains in spite of the many hardships?
opportunity to own their own land
500
This is the process of holding onto OLDER traditions while adapting to a new culture?
What is Acculturation
500
Name two changes to urban cities in the late 1800s?
immigrants came people moved from the farms overcrowding and dirty conditions skyscrapers sports teams entertainment department stores
500
How did the railroad companies limit competition?
reduced fares offered secret rebates bought out smaller railroads prevented transfers from different rail lines
500
Ask another team a question from the chapters? You must know the correct answer to get the points
What is ?????????
500
Name two ways in which life changed for the American Indians between the 1860s and the 1900s?
settlers displaced them white settlers destroyed the buffalo government broke agreements with them placed on reservations, lost their leaders and depended on the US government