Really Rich Guys

2. Really Rich Guys

3. Inventions that changed world

4. Big Cities

5. Names in the News

6. Prohibition

7. Projects

9. Final Jeopardy Really Rich Guys Inventions that Changed World Big Cities Names in the News Prohibition Projects $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

10. Really Rich Guys 100 • This guy got really rich in the oil industry.

11. Really Rich Guys 100 • John D. Rockefeller

12. 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.

13. Really Rich Guys 200 • Andrew Carnegie.

14. Really Rich Guys 300 • He used the assembly line to make cars that were affordable for many people.

15. Really Rich Guys 300 • Henry Ford

16. 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.

17. Really Rich Guys 400 • Bill Gates

18. Really Rich Guys 500 He made his millions from his domination of the railroads.

19. Really Rich Guys 500 Cornelius Vanderbilt

20. 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.

21. Inventions - 100 Thomas Edison

22. Inventions - 200 His telephone made it easy to communicate with people over long distances.

23. Inventions - 200 Alexander Graham Bell

24. Inventions - 300 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.

25. Inventions - 300 The Reaper

26. Inventions - 400 They were the first to fly, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

27. Inventions - 400 The Wright Brothers

28. Inventions - 500 The Bessemer process was a new way to make this product, which was much stronger than the iron it came from.

29. Inventions - 500 Steel

30. Big City - 100 This city was at the center of the steel industry.

31. Big Cities - 100 Pittsburgh

32. Big Cities - 200 This city was at the center of the automobile industry.

33. Big City - 200 Detroit

34. Big Cities - 300 Which city was the center of the meat-packing industry, with factories like the one described in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”?

35. Big Cities - 300 Chicago

36. Big Cities - 400 The textile industry strived in this area, where many Irish immigrants settled. Basketball hint: Irish people are sometimes referred to as Celts.

37. Big Cities - 400 New England/Boston

38. Big Cities – 500 This was the first city with electricity, and it is still our country’s most populous city.

39. Big Cities - 500 New York

40. Names in the News - 100 She founded the Hull House to help immigrants adjust to America, and later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

41. Names in the News - 100 Jane Addams

42. Names in the News - 200 This popular African-American leader felt vocational education was key, but thought social segregation was acceptable.

43. Names in the News - 200 Booker T. Washington

44. Names in the News 300 This man called for an end to segregation, and demanded equal rights in all areas of life.

45. Names in the News - 300 W.E.B. Dubois

46. Names in the News - 400 This woman fought for women’s suffrage, though she died before women were given the right to vote.

47. Names in the News - 400 Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton

48. Names in the News - 500 He was boss of Tammany Hall, the political machine that ruled New York.

49. Names in the News - 500 Boss Tweed

50. Prohibition - 100 The word for people who made or smuggled or sold illegal alcohol. .