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Question The area below a ship’s deck where new immigrants traveled.
Answer 1 – 10 steerage
Question Gaining total control of an industry
Answer 1 – 20 monopoly
Question Public transportation
Answer 1 – 30 Mass transit
Question Factories that had long hours and unhealthy working conditions
Answer 1 – 40 sweatshops
Question Owning all the businesses in a certain field
Answer 1 – 50 Horizontal integration
Question Created the assembly line
Answer 2 – 10 Henry Ford
Question Inventor of the telephone
Answer 2 – 20 Alexander Graham Bell
Question Founder of Hull House
Answer 2 – 30 Jane Addams
Question Visited sweatshops and wrote about the problems
Answer 2 – 40 Florence Kelley
Question Journalist and photographer that became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in NYC tenements
Answer 2 – 50 Jacob Riis
Question The steel industry is closely related to the _____ industry.
Answer 3 – 10 railroad
Question Sweatshops are closely related to what industry?
Answer 3 – 20 clothing
Question What is the reason that immigrants could be rejected at Ellis Island?
Answer 3 – 30 Contagious Diseases
Question Why did immigrants move into neighborhoods with people from the same country?
Answer 3 – 40 Because the transition into American culture was often difficult.
Question What was the main change brought by the steel industry to American architecture in the late 1800s?
Answer 3 – 50 skyscrapers
Question This is the place where European immigrants entered the U.S.
Answer 4 – 10 Ellis Island
Question This is the place where Chinese immigrants entered the U.S.
Answer 4 – 20 Angel Island
Question These houses offered education, recreation and social activities to immigrants and the poor
Answer 4 – 30 Settlement Houses
Question This settlement house was founded by Jane Addams
Answer 4 – 40 Hull House
Question A factory that has long hours and unhealthy working conditions
Answer 4 – 50 Sweatshops
Question Poorly built, overcrowded housing or apartments
Answer 5 – 10 Tenements
Question Brought about by the steel industry and American architecture
Answer 5 – 20 skyscrapers
Question First labor union to include both skilled and unskilled laborers
Answer 5 – 30 Knights of Labor
Question Period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing during the late 1800s
Answer 5 – 40 Second Industrial Revolution
Question Riot that broke out at Haymarket Square in Chicago over the deaths of two strikers
Answer 5 – 50 Haymarket Riot
Final Jeopardy
List the process of Ellis Island. (in order)