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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