Who's Who 1
Who's Who 2
Who's Who 3
Potpourri
Chapter 12
100
Christopher Sholes
Who invented the typewriter?
100
Thomas Edison
Who perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants?
100
Alexander Graham Bell
Who opened the way for worldwide communications with the invention of the telephone?
100
Decrease Chinese immigration
What was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
Carrying mail
What was the first practical peacetime use of airplanes for?
200
Edwin L. Drake
Who first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s surface?
200
Henry Bessemer
Who developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel?
200
George Eastman
Who invented the popular roll-film camera?
200
By sharing side walls with other buildings
How did the row house conserve space?
200
The automobile
What was the main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s?
300
Eugene V. Debs
Who ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist?
300
J.D. Rockefeller
Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?
300
Mark Twain
Novelist and humorist _____ wrote books that have become American classics.
300
Graft
What is the illegal use of political influence for personal gain called?
300
Political radicals
What did attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from?
400
Andrew Carnegie
What Scottish immigrant made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits?
400
Marshall Field
In Chicago, who opened the first department store in the nation?
400
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Who developed the first powered airplane?
400
Opposed to immigration
What does not describe a typical supporter of a political machine?
400
Raise taxes on goods entering the United States
What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff meant to do?
500
Mary Harris Jones
Who organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better working conditions?
500
W.E.B. Du Bois
According to _____, educated blacks should immediately join the mainstream of society.
500
Ida B. Wells
By writing and lecturing, _____ tried to end the lynching of African Americans.
500
Applicants for government jobs to pass examinations
What did the Pendleton Civil Service Act require?
500
The success of the advertising industry
What is not considered a sign that the prosperity of the 1920s was superficial?
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