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Really Rich Guys. Inventions that changed world. Big Cities. Names in the News. Prohibition. Projects. Final Jeopardy. Really Rich Guys. Inventions that Changed World. Big Cities. Names in the News. Prohibition. Projects. $ 100. $100. $100. $ 100. $100. $100. $ 200. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Final Jeopardy
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 19th 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 - 100
Thomas Edison
Inventions - 200
His telephone made it easy to communicate with people over long distances.
Inventions - 200
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventions - 300This 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 - 300
The Reaper
Inventions - 400
They were the first to fly, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Inventions - 400
The Wright Brothers
Inventions - 500The Bessemer process was a new way to make this product, which was much stronger than
the iron it came from.
Inventions - 500
Steel
Big City - 100
This city was at the center of the steel industry.
Big Cities - 100
Pittsburgh
Big Cities - 200
This city was at the center of the automobile industry.
Big City - 200
Detroit
Big Cities - 300Which city was the center of the meat-packing industry, with factories like the one described in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”?
Big Cities - 300
Chicago
Big Cities - 400The textile industry strived in this area, where many Irish immigrants settled. Basketball hint: Irish people are sometimes referred to as Celts.
Big Cities - 400
New England/Boston
Big Cities – 500This was the first city with electricity, and it is still our country’s most populous city.
Big Cities - 500
New York
Names in the News - 100She founded the Hull
House to help immigrants adjust to America, and
later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Names in the News - 100
Jane Addams
Names in the News - 200This popular African-American leader felt vocational education was key, but thought social segregation was acceptable.
Names in the News - 200
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 - 300
W.E.B. Dubois
Names in the News - 400This woman fought for women’s suffrage, though she died before women were given the right to vote.
Names in the News - 400
Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Names in the News - 500
He was boss of Tammany Hall, the political machine that ruled New York.
Names in the News - 500
Boss Tweed
Prohibition - 100
.The word for people who made or smuggled or sold illegal alcohol.
Prohibition - 100
Bootleggers
Prohibition - 200
Name for illegal liquor.
Prohibition - 200
Moonshine
Prohibition - 300
Name for the illegal saloons that served moonshine during Prohibition.
Prohibition - 300
Speakeasies
Prohibition - 400
Number of the Constitutional Amendment that banned the sale of alcohol.
Prohibition - 400
18th Amendment
Prohibition - 500
Number of the amendment that repealed prohibition in 1933.
Prohibition - 500
21st Amendment
Projects - 100
This ship was big and strong, but the iceberg was bigger and stronger.
Projects - 100
The Titanic
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.
Projects - 200
San Francisco
Projects - 300
America’s first amusement park, people flocked for decades to this Sodom by the Sea.
- 300
Coney Island
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.
- 400
Chicago
Projects - 500A 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