1. Industry and Urban Growth Jeopardy
Important People
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American Inventors
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American Education
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Vocabulary
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Immigrants
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2. Vocabulary for 100
The production method that puts a product together as it moves along a conveyor belt
What is an assembly line?

3. Vocabulary for 200
The process of becoming part of another culture.
What is assimilation?

4. Vocabulary for 300
The sensational reporting style of some newspapers during the late 1800’s.
What is yellow journalism?

5. Vocabulary for 400
A person who sets up new businesses to make a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?

6. Vocabulary for 500
Practice in which unions bargain with management for workers as a group.
What is collective barganing?

7. Important people for 100 Who was Thomas Edison?
His research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was called an “invention factory”.
Who was Thomas Edison?

8. Who were the factory owners?
Important People for 200
This group of people was most likely to accept the ideas of Social Darwinism.
Who were the factory owners?

9. Important People for 300 Who were realists?
Type of writers who wrote literature that was supposed to show life as it really was.
Who were realists?

10. 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?

11. Important People for 500
Leader of the AFL (American Federation of Labor).
Who was Samuel Gompers?

12. American Inventors for 100
Perfected the assembly line and made the automobile available to millions.
Who was Henry Ford?

13. American Inventors for 200
Created the first power plant for cities in 1880.
Daily Double!
Who was Thomas Edison?

14. 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?

15. American Inventors for 400
Invented the first telephone in 1876.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

16. American Inventors for 500
Began the Kodak camera company in 1888
Who was George Eastman?

17. 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?

18. American Education for 200
States improved public education to develop an educated work force after what war?.
What is the Civil War?

19. American Education for 300
Requires that all children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?

20. 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?

21. American Education for 500
The purpose of these writers and artists was to show life as it really was.
Who are realists?

22. IMMIGRANTS for 100
Number one reason why immigrants come to the United States.
What is a job?

23. 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?

24. 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.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?

25. IMMIGRANTS for 400
Type of job most “New Immigrants” worked upon entering the United States.
What were miners, mill workers, and factory workers?

26. 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?

27. This is Final Jeopardy!!!! Possible Answers
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
tenement living and its problems, overcrowding, sanitation
factory working conditions, such as long hours, low pay, and unsafe environments
routines of the school day, the three R’s, McGuffey’s Eclectic Reader
attractions such as parks, museums, sports, department stores
other aspects: public transportation, electricity, skyscrapers
benefits: jobs, free education, religious freedom, political freedom