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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. Later, he sold his business to J.P. Morgan and gave away his money for libraries and universties and other causes.

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 reap the harvest. This made them very grim, and many moved to the city for factory jobs.

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 it came 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 strived 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, and

later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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 - 500

He was boss of Tammany Hall, the political machine that ruled New York.

Names in the News - 500

Boss Tweed

Prohibition - 100

.The word for people who made or smuggled or sold illegal alcohol.

Prohibition - 100

Bootleggers

Prohibition - 200

Name for illegal liquor.

Prohibition - 200

Moonshine

Prohibition - 300

Name for the illegal saloons that served moonshine during Prohibition.

Prohibition - 300

Speakeasies

Prohibition - 400

Number of the Constitutional Amendment that banned the sale of alcohol.

Prohibition - 400

18th Amendment

Prohibition - 500

Number of the amendment that repealed prohibition in 1933.

Prohibition - 500

21st Amendment

Projects - 100

This ship was big and strong, but the iceberg was bigger and stronger.

Projects - 100

The Titanic

Projects - 200

This city, which grew huge because of the first Gold Rush in 1849, was the site of a big earthquake and fire in 1906.

Projects - 200

San Francisco

Projects - 300

America’s first amusement park, people flocked for decades to this Sodom by the Sea.

- 300

Coney Island

Projects - 400

Legend has it that the huge fire in this city in 1871 was started when a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn.

- 400

Chicago

Projects - 500A hurricane wiped out this Texas city in 1900, one of America’s worst-ever natural disasters.

- 500

Galveston

This cartoonist helped bring down 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