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Final Jeopardy
Really Rich Guys 100
• This guy got really rich in the oil industry.
Really Rich Guys 100
• John D. Rockefeller
Really Rich Guys 200
• This guy got really rich in the steel industry.
Really Rich Guys 200
• Andrew Carnegie.
Really Rich Guys 300
• He used the assembly line to make cars that were affordable for many people.
Really Rich Guys 300
• Henry Ford
Really Rich Guys 400
• He is often compared to the robber barons of the 19th century, though he is alive and well today, making billions from computer software.
Really Rich Guys 400
• Bill Gates
Really Rich Guys 500
He made his millions from his domination of the
railroads.
Really Rich Guys 500•Cornelius Vanderbilt
Inventions – 100
He invented thousands of things, like the phonograph and the light bulb. His power stations sent electricity to homes
and factories, changing the way we lived.
Inventions - 100
Thomas Edison
Inventions - 200
His telephone made it easy to communicate with people over long distances.
Inventions - 200
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventions - 300This invention could do the work of 10 men on the farm, so fewer workers were needed on the farms.
Inventions - 300
The Reaper
Inventions - 400
They were the first to fly, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Inventions - 400
The Wright Brothers
Inventions - 500The Bessemer process was a new way to make this product, which was much stronger than
the iron ore it was made from.
Inventions - 500
Steel
Big City - 100
This city was at the center of the steel industry.
Big Cities - 100
Pittsburgh
Big Cities - 200
This city was at the center of the automobile industry.
Big City - 200
Detroit
Big Cities - 300Which city was the center of the meat-packing industry, with factories like the one described in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”?
Big Cities - 300
Chicago
Big Cities - 400The textile industry thrived in this area, where many Irish immigrants settled. Basketball hint: Irish people are sometimes referred to as Celts.
Big Cities - 400
New England/Boston
Big Cities – 500This was the first city with electricity, and it is still our country’s most populous city.
Big Cities - 500
New York
Names in the News - 100She founded the Hull
House to help immigrants adjust to America.
Names in the News - 100
Jane Addams
Names in the News - 200This popular African-American leader felt vocational education was key, but thought social segregation was acceptable.
Names in the News - 200
Booker T. Washington
Names in the News 300
This man called for an end to segregation, and demanded equal rights in all areas of life.
Names in the News - 300
W.E.B. Dubois
Names in the News - 400This woman fought for women’s suffrage, though she died before women were given the right to vote.
Names in the News - 400
Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Names in the News - 500This Confederate general called for reconciliation after the war. Later he founded a university in Virginia that bears his name today, and he has a street and an elementary school named after him in
Spotsylvania County.
Names in the News - 500
Robert E. Lee
Immigration - 100
.Name one of the reasons immigrants came to America in the late 1800s.
Immigration - 100• Religious Freedom• Opportunity for a better life ($$)• Escape from Oppressive
Governments• Adventure
Immigration - 200
Many immigrants lived in poorly built, overcrowded apartments when they got to America. What were these buildings called?
Immigration - 200Tenements
Immigration - 300Early European immigrants came mostly from Northern and Western Europe, places like England and Germany. Where did the “New Immigrants” come from?
Immigration - 300
Eastern and Southern Europe (like Russia and Italy)
Immigration - 400What is the word for neighborhoods, usually poor, crowded, dirty and crime-ridden, where immigrants often lived with people from their own ethnic groups.
Immigration - 400
Ghettos
Immigration - 500Some people didn’t like the new immigrants and treated them badly. What is the word for not liking someone just because he is a different nationality, race or religion?
Immigration - 500Prejudice (racism can be accepted – it is one type of prejudice, based
on race; discrimination works, too.)
Industrialization - 100Name a problem faced by workers in factories and mines (that hasn’t been named in another question).
Industrialization - 100Low Wages
Long Hours
Dangerous Jobs
Child Labor
Industrialization - 200Sometimes all the workers in a factory or industry would stop working and try to shut down the company so management would have to bargain with them. What were these work stoppages called?
Industrialization - 200
Strikes
Industrialization - 300
Workers organized groups to fight together for higher wages and better working conditions. What were these Organized Labor groups called?
Industrialization - 300
Unions
Industrialization - 400
Kids could have jobs. That sounds great! Give at least one reason child labor was not considered a good thing.
Industrialization - 400The kids got paid a lot less than adults, they worked long hours, they often got
hurt, they never got to go to school, they often grew into criminals because
they had now respect for authority.
Industrialization - 500Strikes sometimes turned violent. This sometimes hurt unions’ image among the public. Name one strike or labor incident that turned violent.
Industrialization - 500
Homestead Strike
Or
Haymarket Riot
This cartoonist helped bring down Boss Tweed, the head of New York’s powerful political machine. He also gave us the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey and the Santa Claus we know today.
Thomas Nast