Inventors
The inventor of the steamboat
Robert Fulton
The location of a large earthquake which caused severe fires that destroyed the city
San Francisco, California
A person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country
immigrant
highest point of a mountain
peak
He created the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
The inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
The location of the first successful airplane flight
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
These were created to protect children from dangerous jobs and long working hours
child labor laws
elevation: height above sea level
altitude
They used a gasoline engine to make the first successful airplane.
Wilbur and Orville Wright
The inventor of the phonograph
Thomas Edison
The first center of skyscraper architecture
Chicago, Illinois
Inventors protected their design ideas
patent
deep, narrow valley with steep sides
canyon
Before he became an evangelist he was a famous baseball player
The inventor of the gas mask
Garrett Morgan
The location of America's first subway system
Boston, Massachusetts
People often placed man's ideas over God's truth
Progressive Movement
piece of land completely surrounded by water
island
He was ordered to capture or destroy the Spanish Pacific fleet
George Dewey
The inventor of the first successful liquid-fuel rocket
Robert Goddard
The location of a hurricane that caused the deadliest natural disaster in United States history
Galveston, Texas
narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land
peninsula
piece of land nearly surrounded by water
peninsula
He brought the steel industry to America
Andrew Carnegie