Imperial/Progressive Era - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Ways to limit # of immigrants allowed in
   Immigration Act & National Quota
2. Invented by Thomas Edison. Let factories operate 24/7
   lightbulb
3. Belief in conserving the land/environment for future generations.
   Conservationism
4. Against consumption of alcohol and wanted it banned
   Temperance movement
5. Helped get workers better working conditions
   Labor Unions
6. A company that controls their market
   Monopoly
7. War with Spain fought in Cuba after the sinking of the Maine
   Spanish American War
8. Used to fuel cars, light homes. How Rockefeller made his $$.
   Oil
9. Connected the east and west coast for the first time.
   Transcontinental Railroad
10. America having control of other countries for their resources.
    Imperialism
11. Nickname for Teddy since he "busted" up monopolies
    "Trust Buster"
12. "muckraker" who exposed Standard Oil
    Ida Tarbell
13. Founder of the Hull House in Chicago
    Jane Aadams
14. Marched and protested for women to have the right to vote
    Suffrage Movement
15. Used to make the railroad, Carnegie made his $$ with this
    Steel
16. Group of volunteers during Span/Am war led by T.R.
    Rough Riders
17. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell to send voice messages
    Telephone
18. move for social activism, more gov't control/reroms
    Progressive movement
19. Invented by Samuel Morse to send messages long distances
    Telegraph
20. Roosevelt set aside areas controlled by the gov't for preservation
    National Parks
21. Canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Central America
    Panama Canal
22. The sinking of this ship started the Spanish/American War
    USS Maine
23. In NY, where mostly European immigrants were processed
    Ellis Island
24. Protected by the U.S. but not under their direct control. (NOT a state)
    U.S. Territory
25. Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller
    "Robber Barons"
26. In California, where mostly Asian immigrants were processed
    Angel Island
27. Book by Jacob Riis with pictures of poor in NYC
    How the Other Half Live
28. Book by Sinclair that prompted the creation of the FDA
    The Jungle
29. Journalists who exposed bad things about companies.
    Muckrakers