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Really Rich Guys 100 This guy got really rich in the oil industry.
Really Rich Guys 100 John D. Rockefeller
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.
Really Rich Guys 200 Andrew Carnegie.
Really Rich Guys 300 He used the assembly line to make cars that were affordable for many people.
Really Rich Guys 300 Henry Ford
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.
Really Rich Guys 400 Bill Gates
Really Rich Guys 500 He made his millions from his domination of the railroads.
Really Rich Guys 500 Cornelius Vanderbilt
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.
Inventions Thomas Edison
Inventions His telephone made it easy to communicate with people over long distances.
Inventions Alexander Graham Bell
Inventions 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.
Inventions The Reaper
Inventions They were the first to fly, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Inventions The Wright Brothers
Inventions The Bessemer process was a new way to make this product, which was much stronger than the iron it came from.
Inventions Steel
Big City This city was at the center of the steel industry.
Big Cities Pittsburgh
Big Cities This city was at the center of the automobile industry.
Big City Detroit
Big Cities Which city was the center of the meat-packing industry, with factories like the one described in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”?
Big Cities Chicago
Big Cities The textile industry strived in this area, where many Irish immigrants settled. Basketball hint: Irish people are sometimes referred to as Celts.
Big Cities New England/Boston
Big Cities – 500 This was the first city with electricity, and it is still our country’s most populous city.
Big Cities New York
Names in the News She founded the Hull House to help immigrants adjust to America, and later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Names in the News Jane Addams
Names in the News This popular African-American leader felt vocational education was key, but thought social segregation was acceptable.
Names in the News Booker T. Washington
Names in the News 300 This man called for an end to segregation, and demanded equal rights in all areas of life.
Names in the News W.E.B. Dubois
Names in the News This woman fought for women’s suffrage, though she died before women were given the right to vote.
Names in the News Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Names in the News He was boss of Tammany Hall, the political machine that ruled New York.
Names in the News Boss Tweed
Prohibition The word for people who made or smuggled or sold illegal alcohol.
Prohibition Bootleggers
Prohibition Name for illegal liquor.
Prohibition Moonshine
Prohibition Name for the illegal saloons that served moonshine during Prohibition.
Prohibition Speakeasies
Prohibition Number of the Constitutional Amendment that banned the sale of alcohol.
Prohibition th Amendment
Prohibition Number of the amendment that repealed prohibition in 1933.
Prohibition st Amendment
Projects This ship was big and strong, but the iceberg was bigger and stronger.
Projects The Titanic
Projects This city, which grew huge because of the first Gold Rush in 1849, was the site of a big earthquake and fire in 1906.
Projects San Francisco
Projects America’s first amusement park, people flocked for decades to this Sodom by the Sea.
- 300 Coney Island
Projects Legend has it that the huge fire in this city in 1871 was started when a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn.
- 400 Chicago
Projects A hurricane wiped out this Texas city in 1900, one of America’s worst-ever natural disasters.
- 500 Galveston
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.
Thomas Nast