The inventor of the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard was......
Christopher Sholes
100
A business that is owned by many people is called a......
Corporation
100
The first person to make millions in the transportation industry was George Pullman.
False; Cornelius Vanderbilt
100
What invention helped to make George Pullman famous?
The Pullman sleeping car
100
Name the four popular cities where many immigrants settled.
Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco
200
The person who was America's most important manufacturer of steel was.....
Andrew Carnegie
200
An organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes is called a.....
Labor Union
200
Jacob Riis built the Great Northern Railway.
False; James J. Hill
200
What did George Eastman invent?
the Kodak camera and rolled film
200
The Sherman Antitrust Act sought to limit what?
It sought to limit the power a corporation could have.
300
The person who led America's oil industry was.....
John D. Rockefeller
300
A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation is called a .....
Trust
300
Jane Addam's Hull-House offered immigrant women medical care and childcare.
True
300
What is George Westinghouse best known for inventing?
An air brake for trains
300
What idea did the evolutionist Herbert Spencer promote?
The idea that only the fittest survive in society.
400
The person who was first to patent the telephone was.....
Alexander Graham Bell
400
A person who gives large sums of money to help public causes is called a .....
Philanthropist
400
D.L. Moody wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word.
False; B.B. Warfield
400
What was Margaret Knight's most famous invention?
A machine for folding and gluing a flat-based paper bag
400
What problems resulted from the growth of cities in America?
Cities were more crowded and harder to keep clean. Providing housing for everyone was difficult. Many children from poor families worked to help support their families.
500
The person who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph was.....
Thomas Edison
500
An economic system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses is called.....
Capitalism
500
During the Gilded Age American cities grew because people from rural areas moved to the cities.
True
500
Which inventions of the Gilded Age brought the greatest changes to American life?
The telephone and electric lighting
500
How did some authors use realism in their works of literature during the Gilded Age?