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11. Really Rich Guys 100 This guy got really rich in the oil industry.

12. Really Rich Guys 100 John D. Rockefeller

13. Really Rich Guys 200 This guy got really rich in the steel industry. Later, he sold his business to J.P. Morgan and gave away his money for libraries and universties and other causes.

14. Really Rich Guys 200 Andrew Carnegie.

15. Really Rich Guys 300 He used the assembly line to make cars that were affordable for many people.

16. Really Rich Guys 300 Henry Ford

17. Really Rich Guys 400 He is often compared to the robber barons of the 19 th century, though he is alive and well today, making billions from computer software.

18. Really Rich Guys 400 Bill Gates

19. Really Rich Guys 500 He made his millions from his domination of the railroads.

20. Really Rich Guys 500 Cornelius Vanderbilt

21. Inventions – 100 He invented thousands of things, like the phonograph and the light bulb. His power stations sent electricity to homes and factories, changing the way we lived.

22. Inventions - 100 Thomas Edison

23. Inventions - 200 His telephone made it easy to communicate with people over long distances.

24. Inventions - 200 Alexander Graham Bell

25. Inventions - 300 This invention could do the work of 10 men on the farm, so fewer workers were needed reap the harvest. This made them very grim, and many moved to the city for factory jobs.

26. Inventions - 300 The Reaper

27. Inventions - 400 They were the first to fly, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

28. Inventions - 400 The Wright Brothers

29. Inventions - 500 The Bessemer process was a new way to make this product, which was much stronger than the iron it came from.

30. Inventions - 500 Steel

31. Big City - 100 This city was at the center of the steel industry.

32. Big Cities - 100 Pittsburgh

33. Big Cities - 200 This city was at the center of the automobile industry.

34. Big City - 200 Detroit

35. Big Cities - 300 Which city was the center of the meat-packing industry, with factories like the one described in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”?

36. Big Cities - 300 Chicago

37. Big Cities - 400 The textile industry strived in this area, where many Irish immigrants settled. Basketball hint: Irish people are sometimes referred to as Celts.

38. Big Cities - 400 New England/Boston

39. Big Cities – 500 This was the first city with electricity, and it is still our country’s most populous city.

40. Big Cities - 500 New York

41. Names in the News - 100 She founded the Hull House to help immigrants adjust to America, and later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

42. Names in the News - 100 Jane Addams

43. Names in the News - 200 This popular African-American leader felt vocational education was key, but thought social segregation was acceptable.

44. Names in the News - 200 Booker T. Washington

45. Names in the News 300 This man called for an end to segregation, and demanded equal rights in all areas of life.

46. Names in the News - 300 W.E.B. Dubois

47. Names in the News - 400 This woman fought for women’s suffrage, though she died before women were given the right to vote.

48. Names in the News - 400 Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton

49. Names in the News - 500 He was boss of Tammany Hall, the political machine that ruled New York.

50. Names in the News - 500 Boss Tweed

51. Prohibition - 100. The word for people who made or smuggled or sold illegal alcohol.

52. Prohibition - 100 Bootleggers

53. Prohibition - 200 Name for illegal liquor.

54. Prohibition - 200 Moonshine

55. Prohibition - 300 Name for the illegal saloons that served moonshine during Prohibition.

56. Prohibition - 300 Speakeasies

57. Prohibition - 400 Number of the Constitutional Amendment that banned the sale of alcohol.

58. Prohibition - 400 18 th Amendment

59. Prohibition - 500 Number of the amendment that repealed prohibition in 1933.

60. Prohibition - 500 21 st Amendment

61. Projects - 100 This ship was big and strong, but the iceberg was bigger and stronger.

62. Projects - 100 The Titanic

63. Projects - 200 This city, which grew huge because of the first Gold Rush in 1849, was the site of a big earthquake and fire in 1906.

64. Projects - 200 San Francisco

65. Projects - 300 America’s first amusement park, people flocked for decades to this Sodom by the Sea.

66. - 300 Coney Island

67. Projects - 400 Legend has it that the huge fire in this city in 1871 was started when a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn.

68. - 400 Chicago

69. Projects - 500 A hurricane wiped out this Texas city in 1900, one of America’s worst-ever natural disasters.

70. - 500 Galveston

72. This cartoonist helped bring down the head of New York’s powerful political machine. He also gave us the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey and the Santa Claus we know today.

73. Thomas Nast