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Jeopardy New Corporations/ Immigrants Businesses Territories Inventions Cattle Drives Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy He invented many electric devices, including the light bulb. Who is Thomas Edison? True or False: Many of the inventions in the late 1800’s affected the productivity of businesses by helping people to work at a faster pace and complete more jobs. What is true? Two important new technologies that changed cities in the late 1800’s. What are steel building frames and electricity? These systems were developed in the late 1800’s to move people around cities quickly. What are rapid transit systems? Cities grew between 1860 and 1910 because: a) millions of immigrants settled in rural areas b) large areas offered job opportunities c) new farm machines took away people jobs in rural communities d) the Seventeenth Amendment made it safer to live in cities What is: c) new farm machines took away people jobs in rural communities? Reason why Texas cattle ranchers sent their cattle to the North and the East. What is ‘they could sell their cattle there for more money.’ ? The amount of something that people want to sell at certain prices. What is supply? New settlers used this invention to make fences that blocked the cattle drives and changed the life of cattle ranchers. What is barbed wire? There were several reasons why cattle drives lasted for only about 20 years. Name at least three reasons as to why the cattle drive disappeared. What are: 1) the invention of barbed wire, 2) the growth the railroads, 3) crowded ranges with not enough food, 4) terrible winter of 1886- 1887, 5) and sheepranchers also wanted this land? Complete the sentences: When the demand is high, prices go _____. When supply is high, prices go ______. What is: When the demand is high, prices go up. When supply is high, prices go down. ? A business in which many people own shares, or parts, of the business. What is a corporation? A company or corporation that has no competition. What is a monopoly? Before labor unions, people working in factories: a) Were paid a lot of money and had fun. b) Worked less than 8 hours a day in safe working conditions. c) Worked 10 to 12 hours a day in dangerous working conditions. d) Were treated nicely by business owners and paid well. What is: ‘c) Worked 10 to 12 hours a day in dangerous working conditions.? In the late 1800’s, Standard Oil grew by buying other smaller oil companies. It soon controlled 90 percent of the oil sold in the United States and almost became a monopoly. *Name the reason Rockefeller bought these companies. What is to ‘reduce the competition’? Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, described the unsafe and dirty conditions in meatpacking plants. How did this book help to improve society? What is that it helped to improve Society because President Theodore Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass two laws to make food safer? Almost all European immigrants who came to the United States were allowed to enter. Immigrants from Asia faced more ___________, and more of them were not allowed entry. What is prejudice? The reason why employers liked to hire immigrants. What is 'they worked hard/ many hours for little pay’? The reason many Americans wanted immigration to end. What is‘they worried that immigrants would take their jobs.’? Many immigrants moved to large cities, worked in factories, and lived in tenements. What effect did this overcrowding in cities have on the housing? What is ‘many people lived in unsafe buildings’ ? Name at least two things that the new immigrants to the United States brought and shared with family and friends in their ethnic neighborhoods. What are languages, customs, and practice their religions? For much of the 1800’s, the United States gained territory by moving from the East to the _______. What is West? What event led Congress to declare war on Spain? What is ‘the explosion of the U.S. Navy ship Maine in a Cuban harbor’? Name the colonies Spain gave the United States in the peace agreement following the SpanishAmerican War. What are ‘Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam’? A group of volunteers whom Theodore Roosevelt organized to fight against Spain in Cuba. Who were the ‘Rough Riders’? $500 Question from H5 Identify the five areas that became U.S. territories. What are: • Alaska • Hawaii • Puerto Rico • Guam • Philippine Islands Final Jeopardy By the end of the 1800s, the United States wanted to show the world something. What did the U.S. want to show the world? Final Jeopardy Answer What is ‘they wanted to show the world that the U.S. was a powerful and/ or international country?’