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Industrialization, Immigration, and Populism in America

This Jeopardy game focuses on the topics of industrialization, immigration, populism, big business, and labor in the United States. Test your knowledge and learn key facts about these important historical events.

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Industrialization, Immigration, and Populism in America

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  1. Jeopardy Industrialization Immigration Populism Big Business Labor $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Unit 3 – Becoming an Industrial Nation

  2. The war that industry first flourished after What is the Civil War? 1 - $100

  3. 1 - $200 • The main physical link between cities which was the greatest contributing factor to increased economic and industrial growth • What are the railroads?

  4. 1 - $300 • Reasons why people in rural areas migrated to the cities • What are better living conditions and modern conveniences?

  5. 1 - $400 • Two problems of urbanization • What are sanitation, water quality control, tenements, crime, overcrowding, disease, unsafe building structures,…?

  6. 1 - $500 • Definition of capitalism • What is an economic system that allows for free enterprise (individuals regulate the production and distribution of goods and services) and private ownership of property?

  7. 2 - $100 • The vital role that immigrants played in industrialization • What is a large, inexpensive work force?

  8. 2 - $200 • The first immigration law passed by Congress that limited an entire nationality from immigrating to the United States • What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

  9. 2 - $300 • The two immigration stations during the Gilded Age • What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?

  10. 2 - $400 • Three ways neighborhoods in cities were divided up (segregated) • What are race, ethnicity, and class?

  11. 2 - $500 • Political urban machines provided immigrants with housing and jobs. Immigrants paid for these accomodations with this. • What are their votes?

  12. 3 - $100 • A 2016 presidential candidate for the Democratic Party that is running a campaign based on populist ideology • Who is Bernie Sanders?

  13. 3 - $200 • Effect on prices when production increases • What is a decrease in prices?

  14. 3 - $300 • Reason the Populists wanted the federal government to increase the money supply • What is to raise the price of crops?

  15. 3 - $400 • Lasting effects of the Populist Party • What are the federal income tax, the secret ballot, the direction election of Senators, …?

  16. 3 - $500 • Ideas from the Populist Party’s platform • What are postal savings system, demand for currency in the form of silver, government ownership of railroads and telephones, direct election of Senators, …?

  17. 4 - $100 • Owning multiple steps in the manufacturing process • What is vertical integration?

  18. 4 - $200 • J.P. Morgan created the largest business when his holding company acquired this from Andrew Carnegie • What is U.S. Steel?

  19. 4 - $300 • Ways John D. Rockefeller was able to corner the oil market • What are paying his employees extremely low wages, selling oil below cost, absorbing his competition into his trust, …?

  20. 4 - $400 • A small group of business people who manage many companies in a unified way and effectively eliminate competition • What is a trust?

  21. 4 - $500 • Made it possible for the United States to mass produce steel at a low cost • What is the Bessemer Process?

  22. 5 - $100 • Ways factor owners were able to exploit their workers • What are no minimum wage requirements, no maximum daily working hours, and no benefits or health care?

  23. 5 - $200 • Nationwide railroad strike led by Eugene Debs and the ARU • What is the Pullman Strike?

  24. 5 - $300 • An industrial lockout and strike against Carnegie’s Steel Company in 1892 • What is the Homestead Strike?

  25. 5 - $400 • Event that gained national attention of the poor safety conditions for women workers • What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

  26. 5 - $500 • Most unions excluded these groups of individuals • What are African Americans, women, unskilled labors, and immigrants?

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