Who wrote "The Jungle" that exposed the Chicago meatpacking industry, of there terrible, disgusting conditions.
Who is Upton Sinclair
What 2 railroads joined to make the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are the Union and Central Pacific railroads.
What does the term "muckracker" mean?
What is a Jornalist who exposed the corruption of Capitalism
Who is Jane Addams and what is her nickname?
Who is the muckracker that exposed the company "Standard Oil" and their unfair business practices. Her nickname is "the mother of social work".
Without whom, would the building of the railroads not have been possible?
Who are the Irish and Chinese immigrants
What do you call a house made from sod?
What is a Soddie
What case was Homer Plessy in?
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson
After what war did railroads have a major role in industrializing America?
What was the Civil War
What does the term "Progressive" mean?
What is, "A person believing in moderate political change and social improvement through political action" (does not have to be exact definition"
Who was the first black PH.D. to graduate from Harvard University?
Who was W.E.B. DuBois
Where in America did the Union and Pacific railroads join their tracks?
Where is Promontory, Utah
What is the NAACP?
What is the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Who is Jacob Riis and what did he do?
Who is an immigrant from Denmark that wrote books on how immigrants lived and the terrible conditions of their workplaces and homes
As a symbol of the union of East and West railroads, what type of spike did they drive into the ground?
What is a gold spike
What does the term "Referendum" mean?
What is "this gives the voters the ability to vote on state laws by ballot, the majority of the public vote would pass or defeat a state law" (again does not need to be exact definition)