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This railroad tycoon owned the New York Central Railroad and helped link major cities on the East Coast and Midwest. A 100
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt? A 100
This industrial leader, and author of The Gospel of Wealth, controlled the steel industry by bringing the Bessemer process to the U.S. and establishing a monopoly through Vertical Integration. A 200
Who is Andrew Carnegie? A 200
These booming communities in the west grew as people came hoping to find gold or silver. A 300
What are mining towns? A 300
This is formed as companies assign stocks to a board of trustees who combine them into a new, more powerful organization. A 400
What is a trust? A 400
This ideology refers to the idea that the value of a person is determined by how much money one had. A 500
What is Social Darwinism? A 500
This Sioux leader assembled his own army to drive settlers out. B 100
Who is Sitting Bull? B 100
This was the site of the confrontation between General Custer s 700 men and 7000 Sioux men. B 200
Where is Little Big Horn? B 200
This massacre effectively ended Native American resistance to white settlement of remaining western lands. B 300
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre? B 300
These are the spaces provided for the relocation of large groups of Native Americans. B 400
What are reservations? B 400
This was the center of a revival movement to strengthen the Sioux against white settlers. B 500
What is the Ghost Dance? B 500
This political boss put New York City into millions of dollars of debt. C 100
Who is Boss Tweed? C 100
This political cartoonist and editor exposed political corruption in New York City. C 200
Who is Thomas Nast? C 200
This corrupt bargain ended Reconstruction. C 300
What is the Compromise of 1877? C 300
DAILY Place A Wager DOUBLE C 400
The illegal importation of this product under Grant s administration resulted in a scandal and cheated the U.S. Treasury out of millions of dollars. C 400
What is whiskey? C 400
This political scandal was named for a phony construction company hired to help construct the transcontinental railroad. C 500
What is Credit Mobilier? C 500
In second wave immigration, the new immigrant groups come from these regions. D 100
Where are Southern and Eastern European countries? D 100
The sub-standard apartment facilities in the cities are referred to by this name. D 200
What are tenements? D 200
This inventor secured the patents for the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. D 300
Who is Thomas Edison? D 300
This inventor better connected individuals and businesses across the country with the telephone, invented in 1876. D 400
Who is Alexander Graham Bell? D 400
This process allowed for more efficient production of steel, contributing to the construction of the first sky scrapers. D 500
What is the Bessemer Process? D 500
He founded the American Federation of Labor. E 100
Who is Samuel Gompers? E 100
This protest was ended by President Cleveland due to the interruption of federal mail delivery. E 200
What is the Pullman Strike? E 200
This is the practice of workers and bosses negotiating for higher wages and better working conditions. E 300
What is collective bargaining? E 300
This incident in 1886 began as a labor protest and escalated into a riot when someone threw a bomb at the police. E 400
What is the Haymarket Affair? E 400
Some employers forced workers to sign these agreements as a promise not to join a union. E 500
What are yellow dog contracts? E 500
She was a female sharpshooter in a Wild West Show. F 100
Who is Annie Oakley? F 100
He owned the newspaper, The New York World, and initiated a fundraising campaign to assemble the Statue of Liberty. F 200
Who is Joseph Pulitzer? F 200
This author coined the term Gilded Age. F 300
Who is Mark Twain? F 300
This artistic style was a reaction to Romanticism and aimed to convey the real conditions of industrial life. F 400
What is Realism? F 400
This genre of variety shows were a popular source of entertainment in the cities. F 500
What is vaudeville? F 500
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