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American History Jeopardy Game

Test your knowledge of American history with this interactive Jeopardy game! Categories include People, Terms, Laws, Immigration, and more. Answer the questions to earn points and challenge yourself on key historical topics.

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American History Jeopardy Game

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. People Terms Laws Immigration potluck 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Person who donates large sums of money to charities

  5. Philanthropist

  6. Entrepreneur who cornered the steel industry

  7. Andrew Carnegie

  8. Entrepreneur who entered oil business: owned Standard Oil

  9. John D. Rockefeller

  10. Author who wrote Rags to Riches stories

  11. Horatio Alger

  12. Controlled the political machine in ny city

  13. Boss Tweed

  14. The Rapid growth of cities

  15. Urbanization

  16. Money used for investment

  17. Capital

  18. When a single company eliminates competition and control a particular market

  19. Monopoly

  20. A term used to describe wealthy entrepreneurs during the gilded age

  21. Robber barons

  22. The government does not interfere with business

  23. Laissez Faire

  24. Law that offered plots of land and citizenship for native americans

  25. Dawes Act

  26. Law passed to limit yellow peril. Limited immigration from China

  27. Chinese Exclusion Act

  28. Set quotas on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S.

  29. Immigration Exclusion Acts

  30. Law passed to encourage settlement of west 160 acres for 5 years.

  31. Homestead Act

  32. Answer 5c

  33. Question 5c

  34. Process by which an immigrant adopts appearances, attitudes and culture.

  35. Assimilation

  36. Took place from1790-1850, western europe ireland,germany, and scandanvia

  37. Old immigration

  38. An anti-immigration movement that formed their own political party

  39. Nativists

  40. 1870-1924 came from southern eastern europe especially italy, poland and russia

  41. New Immigrants

  42. Apartment buildings found in cities overcrowded

  43. Tenements

  44. Transportation system that connected nation from atlantic to pacific.

  45. Transcontinental railroad

  46. Workers organized as groups to seek higher wages and improve working conditions

  47. Labor unions

  48. Union that reached one million members increased bread and butter wages .

  49. American Federation of Labor

  50. Philosophy that uses natural selection to defend aggressive business practices

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