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FINAL JEOPARDY Captains of Industry

C1-$100 Captains of Industry As the most influential and powerful banker in America, he was the symbol of power and arrogance for financial capitalism

C1-$100 Supreme Court Cases - $100 Separate But Equal

C1-$200 Supreme Court Cases - $200 This case involved the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act because it restricted commerce

C1-$300 Supreme Court Cases - $300 This case involved the Illinois law that prohibited the practice of charging different rates for long and short hauls. Only the Fed Govt. could regulate interstate commerce not the states

C1-$400 Supreme Court Cases - $400 This case established the policy of Judicial Review

C1-$500 Supreme Court Cases - $500 This permitted slavery in the United States and it’s territories and said that congress does not have the Constitutional authority to make such laws

C2-$100 Gilded Age Politics - $100 Seward’s Folly

C2-$200 Gilded Age Politics - $200 This was a Republican campaign tactic for winning votes in presidential elections. Republicans claimed they had preserved the Union and defeated the Confederates in the Civil War

C2-$300 Gilded Age Politics - $300 His presidency witnessed some of the greatest scandals in U.S. History. His political inexperience and his corrupt cabinet allowed industrialists to run amok

C2-$400 Gilded Age Politics - $400 This act gave three civil service commissioners the power to conduct competitive examinations for prospective government workers. This was an effort to replace incompetent officials

C2-$500 Gilded Age Politics - $500 This was devised to cut surplus revenue and continue protection for American industries. It caused discontent in Latin America, Europe and even the United States

C3-$100 Big Business - $100 This was a philosophy created in 1776 by Adam Smith that advocated minimal government regulation of business

C3-$200 Big Business - $200 This is the process of monopolizing the whole business by controlling all of the parts from raw materials to the finished product

C3-$300 Big Business - $300 It stated that trusts or monopolies were illegal. It main objective was to enforce the measure and require railroads to post their rate publicly. It also prohibited discrimination

C3-$400 Big Business - $400 Originally created to curb businesses, it was mainly used to slow down labor unions

C3-$500 Big Business - $500 Adam Smith’s book that promoted laissez-faire, free- market economy, and supply- and-demand economics

C4-$100 Labor - $ ,000 workers rioted in Chicago. After the police fired into the crowd, the workers met and rallied in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality. A bomb exploded, killing or injuring many of the police. The Chicago workers and the man who set the bomb were immigrants, so the incident promoted anti-immigrant feelings.

C3-200 Labor - $200 The workers at a steel plant in Pennsylvania went on strike, forcing the owner to close down. Armed guards were hired to protect the building. The strikers attacked for five months, then gave in to peace demands.

C3-$300 Labor - $300 President Cleveland brought in the army to end this strike and safeguard the U.S. mail

C3-$400 Labor - $400 He was the head of the American Railway Union and later became the founder of the American Socialist Party

C3-$500 Labor - $500 It lowered duties on imports to about 40% but still protected American industries from foreign competition

C4-$100 City Life - $100 He led a political ring in New York City at Tammany Hall

C4-$200 City Life - $200 These were the name of the slum- like buildings that many immigrants lived in

C4-$300 City Life - $300 Congress placed a 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration with this act

C4-$400 City Life - $400 A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation and help the poor people in society

C4-$500 City Life - $500 She was a humanitarian reformer who established a halfway house for homeless children because she was disgusted by the inner city problems

C4-$100 The Frontier - $100 This act gave 160 acres of free public land to any settler who would live on them

C4-$200 The Frontier - $200 Joseph Glidden’s invention gave farmers greater protection against wandering cattle

C4-$300 The Frontier - $300 Helen Hunt Jackson penned this book about the U.S. Government’s treatment in dealing with Indians

C4-$400 The Frontier - $400 This states that when hard times hit, the unemployed moved west, took up farming and became prosperous

C4-$500 The Frontier - $500 Set aside public land in each state to be used for building colleges