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industrial supremacy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gustavus Swift | Entrepreneur in the Chicago Meat Packing Industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | Owner of large steel mills - produced more steel in Pittsburg than in all of Great Britain |
| Philip Armour | The Meat King of Chicago |
| Sinclair Lewis | Writer of "The Jungle" about meat packing plants in Chicago |
| Packingtown | The dacaying slum behind the packing plants in Chicago |
| William Le Baron Jenney | Chicago architect who built the first metal-frame skyscraper. |
| Great Uprising of 1877 | a famous railroad strike crushed by federal troops sent by President Rutherford B. Hayes |