Black-6

Question 0

Steel

Answer 0

Needed lots of this for railroads; had to find cheap way to produce it; made skyscrapers possible

Question 1

Railroad Companies

Answer 1

Sold low cost land to farmers to increase railroad use

Question 2

Standard Oil Company

Answer 2

Founded by John D. Rockefeller

Question 3

monopoly

Answer 3

Single company that controls a market; Standard Oil Company was a monopoly

Question 4

Thomas Edison

Answer 4

Invented electric light bulb and system for distributing electricity

Question 5

Sitting Bull

Answer 5

Sioux leader who fought Army troops; led Sioux in a religious movement aimed at eliminating white men

Question 6

Wounded Knee

Answer 6

Massacre that ended the long battle between settlers and Natives

Question 7

Immigrants after Civil War

Answer 7

Came from eastern and southern Europe, were Jewish or Catholic, spoke little English, which made it harder to assimilate into American society

Question 8

Ellis Island

Answer 8

Immigrant reception center in New York Harbor

Question 9

Samuel Gompers

Answer 9

Labor leader-president of AFL

Question 10

AFL

Answer 10

Labor union: American Federation of Labor- worked for better pay and working conditions

Question 11

Pullman Strike

Answer 11

Made business and government dislike labor unions

Question 12

Progressive Era

Answer 12

People tried to make improvements in business and industry- muckrakers

Question 13

Ida Tarbell

Answer 13

Exposed unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company

Question 14

Upton Sinclair

Answer 14

Exposed contaminated foods

Question 15

Hull House

Answer 15

Founded by Jane Addams- helped poor immigrants

Question 16

Initiative

Answer 16

Idea for a new law (started during the Progressive Era)

Question 17

Referendum

Answer 17

Vote on an initiative (started during the Progressive Era)

Question 18

Recall

Answer 18

Removing elected officials before their term is done (started during the Progressive Era)

Question 19

Direct Election of Senators

Answer 19

17th amendments (during the Progressive Era)

Question 20

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 20

started conservation movement during the Progressive Era

Question 21

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 21

Laws that required separate facilities for Black Americans

Question 22

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 22

Upheld constitutionality of Jim Crow

Question 23

NAACP

Answer 23

organized to fight Jim Crow