People
The person who experimented with the lightbulb and invented the phonograph was
Thomas Edison
An economic system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses is called
capitalism
Ms. Kelsey hates History
False- It's her favorite subject
Who wrote the articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word?
B.B. Warfield
The person who first patent the telephone was
Alexander Graham Bell
A person who gives large sums of money to help public causes is called a
philanthropist
During the Gilded Age American cities grew because people from rural areas moved to the cities
true
What did Jane Addam's Hull House offer immigrant women?
Childcare
The person who led America's oil industry was
John D. Rockefeller
A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation is called a
trust
Popular cities where many immigrants settled were Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco
True
Who built the Great Northern Railway?
James J. Hill
The person who was America's most important manufacturer of steel was
Andrew Carnegie
An organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes is called a
labor union
The evolutionists Herbert Spencer promoted the idea that only the educated survive in society
False- fittest
Who was the First Person to make millions in the transportation industry?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The inventor of the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard was
Christopher Sholes
corporation
The Sherman Antitrust Act sought to increase the power a corporation could have.
False- limit
How did some authors use realism in their works of literature during the Gilded Age?
Life was portrayed as just as it was
What problems resulted from the growth of cities in America?
Cities were crowded and harder to keep clean. Providing housing for everyone was difficult. Many children from poor familied worked to help support their families.