Famous People
Who invented the first telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What machine could record the human voice and play it back?
Phonograph
What famous island served as a station to help immigrants entering the United States?
Ellis Island
What term describes American culture in the late 1800s?
Gilded Age
What does suffrage mean?
The right to vote
Who earned a fortune in the steel business and donated money to build libraries?
Andrew Carnegie
Who invented the QWERTY keyboard?
Christopher Sholes
What famous gift from France reminded immigrants of freedom?
Statue of Liberty
What system allows people in a country to own the country's goods and businesses?
Capitalism
What special treatment did milk need before being sold?
Pasteurization
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the shoe last?
Jan Matzeliger
What law prevented more Chinese working-class immigrants from entering America?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What type of theater featured a show made up of short acts?
Vaudeville
What did labor unions and reform workers want laws to limit?
Children's working hours and the age at which children could begin working.
Who was an expert at shooting guns?
Annie Oakley
What invention allowed people to communicate using their voices over long distances?
Telephone
Who started Hull-House to help immigrant women?
Jane Adams
What did immigrants come to America hoping to find for sale at a good price?
Land
What did labor laws do to improve children's lives?
They limited the number of hours children could work and established minimum working ages.
Who earned his wealth in the oil industry and donated money to medical research?
John D. Rockefeller
Who invented the telephone and was a teacher for the deaf in Boston?
Alexander Graham Bell
What type of help did Hull-House provide for immigrant women?
Classes
Which famous American poet wrote poetry during the Gilded Age?
Emily Dickinson
Which famous businessman became wealthy through the railroad business rather than the steel business?
Cornelius Vanderbilt