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Final Jeopardy

Really Rich Guys 100

• This guy got really rich in the oil industry.


• John D. Rockefeller


• This guy got really rich in the steel industry.


• Andrew Carnegie.


• He used the assembly line to make cars that were affordable for many people.


• Henry Ford


• He is often compared to the robber barons of the 19th century, though he is alive and well today, making billions from computer software.


• Bill Gates


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


Workers organized groups to fight together for higher wages and better working conditions. What were these Organized Labor groups called?


Unions


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.


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

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