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