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This inventor transformed America with his many inventions such as the phonograph, battery, and dictaphone. His invention factory was responsible for a major innovation almost every month in its first five year tenure. 400 BoardAns
Thomas Alva Edison QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
This famous American entrepreneur created the Standard Oil Trust and held a near-monopoly on petroleum production and refining during the late 1800s. 800 BoardAns
John D. Rockefeller QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
This shrewd business man became the premier financier (money lender) of the late 1800s. He established his Bank in New York city and made history when he organized the world’s first billion dollar company in BoardAns
J. P. Morgan QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
This American entrepreneur revolutionized industry by utilizing the Bessemer Process to mass produce steel. The vertical integration management of his company made him the richest man in America by BoardAns
Andrew Carnegie QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
One of the most successful railroad barons in history, this entrepreneur controlled the three major railroads connecting New York and Chicago and is responsible for the construction of Grand Central Station BoardAns
Cornelius Vanderbilt Question Question BoardBoard
Term used to describe one who organizes, manages, and assumes the financial risk in a business enterprise. 400 BoardAns
Entrepreneur Question Question BoardBoard
Term used to describe total control of a type of industry by one person or company. 800 BoardAns
Monopoly QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
Term used to describe a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement. Usually created to reduce competition BoardAns
Trust QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
These organizations sprang up in the late 1800s to promote fair and safe working conditions for laborers and tradespersons. Their primary influence was in their collective bargaining potential BoardAns
Worker/Trade Unions QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
Term used to describe a labor stoppage by workers to force an employer to meet their demands BoardAns
Strike QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
This was the first stop on the East Coast for most immigrants coming into the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s. 400 BoardAns
Ellis Island Question Question BoardBoard
By the late 1890s the majority of immigrants coming into America were from this part of the world. 800 BoardAns
Eastern and Southern Europe Question Question BoardBoard
These were the top three reasons immigrants from China moved to the United States during the mid-1800s BoardAns
Unemployment, Poverty, and Political Unrest Question Question BoardBoard
This was the first stop on the West Coast for most Chinese immigrants coming into the United States during the mid- 1800s BoardAns
Angel Island Question Question BoardBoard
This Act passed in 1882 barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese in the United States from becoming citizens. This Act was finally repealed in BoardAns
Chinese Exclusion Act QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
These tall steel and concrete buildings made it possible for the modern city to house the multitudes of people who gathered in urban centers. 400 BoardAns
Skyscrapers QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
Working class people in urban centers lived in these crowded appartment buildings. 800 BoardAns
Slums/Tenements Question Question BoardBoard
These were the top three social problems created by the crowded living conditions of Urban life BoardAns
Crime, Sanitation, Unsafe Working Conditions Question Question BoardBoard
This term was used to describe novice workers who built skyscrapers BoardAns
Snakes Question Question BoardBoard
Besides steel, this innovation was the second invention that made skyscrapers possible BoardAns
The Elevator QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
400 BoardAns This monument is iconic and has become symbolic of the modern American City.
Statue of Liberty QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
Detective Burns revolutionized criminal investigations with this innovation in crime fighting. 800 BoardAns
The Mug Shot Question Question BoardBoard
Detective Burns used a variety of interrogation techniques in the course of his criminal investigations. The most famous of which was the this, the Third Degree. BoardAns
Pain Question Question BoardBoard
This tragic incident in New York’s history helped pave the way for safer working conditions in factories and led to standardized fire codes in American cities throughout the United States BoardAns
Triangle Work Waist Factory Fire QuestionQuestion BoardBoard
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The nick name given to New York by John Fitzgerald of the New York Morning Telegraph. BoardAns
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Final Jeopardy Category: Business
This Scottish immigrant is famous for his invention which allowed people to talk by telegraph. It was the predecessor of the modern telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell Question