Last lectures

Question 1

What is a type of corruption, a person receiving the bribe, and the money made on the inside knowledge of city projects?

Answer 1

Boodle

Question 2

What was the first city to be ruled by men of the people?

Answer 2

New York City

Question 3

What is a person that lives in the city called?

Answer 3

Urbanite

Question 4

Who invented the electric trolley?

Answer 4

Sprague

Question 5

Where was the first electric trolley?

Answer 5

Richmond

Question 6

What was an underground train that was electric?

Answer 6

Subway

Question 7

What was the first city to build their subway?

Answer 7

Boston

Question 8

What bridge opened in 1883 and connects Brooklyn with Manhattan?

Answer 8

Brooklyn Bridge

Question 9

Who build the first ever skyscraper in Chicago and it was called the Home Life Insurance Building?

Answer 9

Jenney

Question 10

What park opened in 1873?

Answer 10

Central Park

Question 11

What was the name of the political machine in New York City?

Answer 11

Tammany Hall

Question 12

How did you thanked the political boss?

Answer 12

Voting

Question 13

Who runs Tammany Hall during the 1860s and 70s?

Answer 13

Boss Tweed

Question 14

What prohibited Chinese Immigration for 10 years?

Answer 14

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 15

Who founds Hull House in Chicago in 1889?

Answer 15

Addams

Question 16

What period was named after Queen Victoria?

Answer 16

Victorian Period

Question 17

What bans the mail and bans material designed to insight lust?

Answer 17

Comstock Law

Question 18

Who promotes sexual freedom for Women?

Answer 18

Woodhull

Question 19

What sport became America’s Pastime and is a National Pastime?

Answer 19

Baseball

Question 20

What sport’s first game was a college game between Princeton and Rutgers?

Answer 20

Football

Question 21

What sport was invented by a doctor named Naismith?

Answer 21

Basketball

Question 22

What started as a mail catalogue and partnered with Roebuck?

Answer 22

Sears

Question 23

What amusement park was the most amusing park in the world at this time period?

Answer 23

Coney Island

Question 24

What circus had the name as Greatest Show on Earth?

Answer 24

Ringling Brothers

Question 25

What republican became our 20th president and our 2nd president to be assassinated?

Answer 25

Garfield

Question 26

What republican became our 21st president after the assassination of Garfield?

Answer 26

Arthur

Question 27

What act reformed the civil service after Garfield Assassination?

Answer 27

Pendleton Act/Civil Service Act

Question 28

What was the name for bills that could be turned into gold?

Answer 28

Greenbacks

Question 29

What state was known as the silver state?

Answer 29

Nevada

Question 30

What act was passed in 1890 and required the US Government to buy 4 and a half million ounces of silver every month?

Answer 30

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Question 31

What democrat became our 22nd president, slogan was “Mama where’s my pa”, Veto’d 66% of the bills, and runs for re election and becomes our 24th president becoming our first president to win non-consecutively terms?

Answer 31

Cleveland

Question 32

What republican battles against Cleveland?

Answer 32

Blaine

Question 33

What republican wins election and becomes our 23rd president?

Answer 33

Harrison

Question 34

What 3rd party was founded by the farmers?

Answer 34

Populist Party/People’s Party

Question 35

What was the first People’s Party Candidate?

Answer 35

Weaver

Question 36

Who did the Tramp’s March on Washington looking for government help?

Answer 36

Corey

Question 37

What are people in favor of gold called?

Answer 37

Goldbug

Question 38

What are people in favor of silver called?

Answer 38

Silverite

Question 39

What republican is a goldbug and becomes our 26th presidenta after the Robber Barons buy the election?

Answer 39

McKinley

Question 40

What democrat fights against McKinley and is a silverite?

Answer 40

Bryan