Topics of this game:
- He was a railroad tycoon who created the first railroad empire. Like Carnegie, he came from humble beginnings.
- This is a French term for "newly rich" - a group of wealthy people who worked to gain their millions.
- First president to be assassinated in office.
- This group was made up of railroad tycoons who funded the Central Pacific Railroad and help build the Transcontintal Railroad across America.
- Newspaper journalists who wrote stories about poverty, corruption, and shady business deals during the Industrial Revolution. They helped expose many government scandals.
- He became the president of the Confederacy States of America. He was even more popular than Abraham Lincoln.
- This person had a town in Massachusetts named after him because he created a huge textile factory there in 1814. Many young ladies worked in his factories.
- He designed the Transcontinental Railroad in 1859, and was the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad.
- He was the general for the Union Army during the Civil War, and the victor at the Battle of Appamattox.
- This is a nicer name for the Robber Barons.
- These men in government felt slavery was morally wrong, and that the South had to pay for this sin once the Civil War was over.
- He was raised in a poor Scottish family, but became one of the Captains of Industry in the steel business. He was also a well-known philanthropist.
- Jim Crow was not a real person, but a stereotype of black Americans. White actors would play him using this make-up technique.
- A wealthy person who donates large amounts of money to charitable causes. Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were examples.
- He was a man who was a 1/8 Black American. He was forcibly removed from a segregated train car and arrested. The law case that bears his name created the "separate but equal" concept in post-war America.
- Most people would say they are members of this social class that rose up during the Industrial Revolution. Especially those that own a home, a car, and can pay their bills.
- This class of people worked in factories, and were made up of poor immigrants, people from farms, and children.
- He improved Thomas Newcomen's steam engine invention in 1776. When we think of steam engines, his name usually comes to mind.
- Another name for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
- Which list of words best describes what the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did?
