Blank Jeopardy

1
Economic Growth
Making Life Easier
Social Issues
This is Depressing
Changing our Constitution
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
20 pt
20 pt
20 pt
20 pt
20 pt
25 pt
25 pt
25 pt
25 pt
25 pt
2
Monopolies, pools, and trusts were formed in the
late 1800s in an attempt to decrease this
3
What is competition?
4
Low wages and a decline in working conditions led
to the formation of these
5
What werelabor unions?
6
During the late 1800s and early 1900s most U.S.
immigrants came from here
7
What was Southern and Eastern Europe?
8
New factory jobs opening up and a decrease in the
need for farm workers led to an increase in this
trend
9
What is urbanization?
10
Farmers during the Populist Era complained of the
rates being charged by these and wanted the US
government to regulate them
11
What were railroads?
12
To allow voters to directly introduce bills in
the state legislature
13
What is a referendum
14
These were two major inventions of the late
1800s that revolutionized how we communicate
over long distances
15
What were the telegraph and the telephone?
16
Household appliances of all types were invented
after this became available
17
What is electricity?
18
Another name for the Age of political machines,
civil service reform, and large-scale immigration
19
What is the Gilded Age
20
In the Supreme Court case,Plessy vs.
Ferguson__________, but _________facilities
were declared legal
21
What is Separate, but Equal
22
She was an organizer and the first president of
the National Womens Suffrage Association (on
the 1 coin)
23
Who wasSusan B. Anthony?
24
This was an expression used to describe a
corrupt city government known for collecting
graft and buying votes(think Boss Tweed)
25
What is apolitical machine?
26
These two immigrant groups faced serious
discrimination and played large roles in building
the transcontinental railroad
27
Who were the Chinese and the Irish?
28
This turn of the century civil rights advocate
helped found the NAACP
29
Who wasW.E.B. DuBois?
30
One Gilded Age problem that contributed to low
wages and poor school attendance was the absence
of any laws regulating this
31
What was child labor?
32
Gave citizens more control over government by the
direct election of Senators
33
What is the 17th Amendment
34
One positive aspect of urbanization was the
development of ______________which transported
workers to their jobs in the cities.
35
What wasmass transit
36
The rapid growth of American cities in the late
1800s led to the rapid growth of
37
What weretenements ethnic ghettos
38
The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
39
What is limit the immigration of Chinese to the
United States
40
The effectiveness of the 15th Amendment was
greatly undermined by
41
Poll taxes literacy tests
42
This Reconstruction Era amendment defined US
citizenship and sought to insure equal rights
43
What is the14th Amendment?
44
This power was given to the U.S. government by
the 16th Amendment
45
What is the power to collect income taxes?
46
This Progressive Era reform called for the direct
election of U.S. Senators
47
What is the 17th Amendment?
48
This gave women the right to vote in national
elections
49
What was the 19th Amendment?
50
The 26th Amendment gave these people the right
to vote
51
Who are 18 to 20 year-olds?