Inventions/Inventors
This person invented the first telephone and also was a teacher for the deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell
Earned a fortune in the steel business and gave much of his money to build libraries?
Andrew Carnegie
term that describes American culture in the late 1800s
Gilded Age
Special treatment milk had to go through before being sold
pasteurization
Vanderbilt became rich through steel business.
False
He invented the phonograph and the light bulb
Thomas Edison
What man did God use to start a Sunday school and win thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age?
D. L. Moody
type of theater that was a show made up of short acts
Vaudeville
Term that means the right to vote
suffrage
Immigrants came to America to find land for sale at a good price.
true
The man who invented the shoe laster
Jan Matzeliger
Annie Oakley
system that allows the people of a country to own the country's goods and businesses
capitalism
gift from France that reminded new immigrants of freedom
Statue of Liberty
Hull-House provided classes for immigrant women
True
Invented the QWERTY keyboard
Christopher Sholes
Started a settlement house so that immigrant women could receive help?
Jane Addams
What law said that no more Chinese from the working class could enter America?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Coney Island was the first amusement park to have what ride?
roller coaster
labor unions and reform workers wanted child-labor laws to limit children's breaks.
False
What machine was the first to record the human voice and play it back?
phonograph
Earned wealth in oil business and gave much of his money to medical research
John D. Rockefeller
Station that the US government set up to provide help for immigrants?
Ellis Island
How did labor laws improve the lives of children?
limited number of work hours and established age limit for working
Some of the greatest American poetry was written by Emily Dickinson during the Gilded Age.
True