Inventors & Innovations
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Who started a Bible institute for the advanced training of Christian workers?
Dwight L. Moody
Which state is the Centennial State?
Colorado
The first center of skyscraper architecture was in what city?
Chicago
Who developed an alternating current and became a competitor to Thomas Edison?
Nikola Tesla
During whose presidency was the Pendleton Civil Service Act passed?
Chester Arthur
Introduced crop rotation to the South
George Washington Carver
What policy separated people based on their skin color?
Segregation
What act allowed the Great Plains to be further settled?
The Homestead Act
Who founded the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Why did Thomas Edison become so successful with his inventions?
He believed in hard work
The free coinage of silver was the main issue of what party?
The Populist Party
What were the name for the immigrants who came from southern and eastern Europe during the 1800s?
New immigrants
Who gave the Atlanta Compromise speech?
Booker T. Washington
What was the final territory to be settled in the West?
The Oklahoma Territory
What medical school was the first to practice extensive medical research?
Johns Hopkins
Who developed an inexpensive method for turning iron ore into steel?
Sir Henry Bessemer
Who was the first Democratic president after the Civil War?
Grover Cleveland
What was the first state to give full political privileges to women?
Wyoming
What type of writing tells a story using the scenery, customs, and dialects of a specific region?
Local color
Where was gold discovered that led to conflict with the Sioux Nation?
The Black Hills
In what year was Chicago destroyed by a fire?
1871
Who started the Brooklyn Bridge project?
John Roebling
What political idea did the Populist Party promote in its platform?
That the government could solve practically all problems
How did inflations affect farmers?
It increased prices, making goods more difficult to buy for the farmers
Who founded 67 rescue missions in the United States?
Mel Trotter
Who was the author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ?
Lewis Wallace
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in what year?
1869
Who owned the largest steel company in the world?
Andrew Carnegie
Invented barbed wire
Joseph Farwell Glidden
Which president won the election with the closest popular vote victory in American history?
James Garfield
Who organized the first successful national labor union?
Samuel Gompers
Who started the Hull House?
Jane Addams
Who was the author of In His Steps?
Charles Monroe Sheldon
What do you call the westward migration of several thousand freedmen?
The Exodus of 1879
What structure was the first to use an all-steel frame successfully?
The Wainwright Building
Invented the safety elevator
Elisha Otis
What is the political process that allows the citizen to vote directly on proposed law?
Referendum
Who founded the Grange?
Oliver Hudson Kelly
Who was a missionary to Alaska?
Sheldon Jackson
Who was known as the March King?
John Philip Sousa
What act gave heads of indigenous families land and U.S. citizenship if they took up farming and/or ranching?
The Dawes Act
What year was the world's fair held in Chicago?
1893
Invented the practical typewriter
Christopher Sholes
What law set a precedent for government regulation of business?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Which principle did Adam Smith propose in his Wealth of Nations? (Bonus on Test)
Individual freedom in economics leads to the greatest good for society as a whole
What became the symbol of mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government?
Wounded Knee Massacre