Industry and Urban Growth Jeopardy Vocabulary Important People American Inventors American Education Immigrants
Vocabulary for 100 The production method that puts a product together as it moves along a conveyor belt What is an assembly line?
Vocabulary for 200 The process of becoming part of another culture. What is assimilation?
Vocabulary for 300 The sensational reporting style of some newspapers during the late 1800’s. What is yellow journalism?
Vocabulary for 400 A person who sets up new businesses to make a profit. What is an entrepreneur?
Vocabulary for 500 Practice in which unions bargain with management for workers as a group. What is collective barganing?
Important people for 100 His research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was called an “invention factory”. Who was Thomas Edison?
Important People for 200 This group of people was most likely to accept the ideas of Social Darwinism. Who were the factory owners?
Important People for 300 Type of writers who wrote literature that was supposed to show life as it really was. Who were realists?
Important People for 400 Which group would agree with the following: “Immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country”. Who were nativists?
Important People for 500 Who was Samuel Gompers? Leader of the AFL (American Federation of Labor).
American Inventors for 100 Perfected the assembly line and made the automobile available to millions. Who was Henry Ford?
American Inventors for 200 Created the first power plant for cities in Who was Thomas Edison? Daily Double!
American Inventors for 300 Took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 and stayed in the air for 12 seconds. Who were the Wright brothers?
American Inventors for 400 Invented the first telephone in Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
American Inventors for 500 Began the Kodak camera company in 1888 Who was George Eastman?
American Education for 100 Americans began to read more of what, because of the changes in education in the late 1800’s. What are books, magazines, and newspapers?
American Education for 200 States improved public education to develop an educated work force after what war?. What is the Civil War ?
American Education for 300 Requires that all children attend school up to a certain age. What is compulsory education?
American Education for 400 Compulsory education laws where passed by most states after 1870, and they required children to attend school through at least what grade. What is tenth grade?
American Education for 500 The purpose of these writers and artists was to show life as it really was. Who are realists?
IMMIGRANTS for 100 Number one reason why immigrants come to the United States. What is a job?
IMMIGRANTS for 200 Area of the world most of America’s immigrants came from in the early to mid-1800’s. What is Western and Northern Europe?
IMMIGRANTS for 300 What is Southern and Eastern Europe? In the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s this region of the world sent the most immigrants to the United States.
IMMIGRANTS for 400 What were miners, mill workers, and factory workers? Type of job most “New Immigrants” worked upon entering the United States.
IMMIGRANTS for 500 Name one of the two most famous Scottish immigrants who made it big in the new world. Who were Andrew Carnegie or Alexander Graham Bell?
This is Final Jeopardy!!!! Suppose that you are a child of poor immigrants who have settled in New York City in the late 1800’s. Describe what your daily life is like. Include details about where you and your family live and work, what your school day is like, and what you do for entertainment. Possible Answers