Gilded Age
When was the Gilded Age?
late 1800s
What did Christopher Sholes invent?
Typewriter
A portrait is a picture of a ____.
person
Where did America's first amusement parks open?
New York City
Who invented the QWERTY keyboard?
Christopher Sholes
Where did most immigrants who arrived on the East Coast come from?
Europe
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telephone
Who wrote the song "The Stars and Stripes Forever"?
John Philip Sousa
Who was Jane Addams's Hull-House supposed to help?
Poor immigrant women
Who earned his wealth in the oil
industry and gave much of his
money to medical research?
John D. Rockefeller
Where is Ellis Island?
New York
What did Thomas Edison invent?
Light bulb
Who wrote many ragtime songs?
Scott Joplin
Why were many immigrant children not able to go to school?
They had to work to support their families
What special treatment did milk need to go through before being sold?
pasteurization
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to America?
France
What did Jan Matzeliger invent?
Shoe Laster
Who wrote novels about the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
Mark Twain
Suffrage is the right to ____.
vote
Who started a settlement house so that immigrant women could receive help?
Jane Addams
In capitalism, who owns the country's goods and businesses?
The people
Who wrote many ragtime songs?
Scott Joplin
Who was an expert at shooting guns?
Annie Oakley
What law said that no more Chinese from the working class could enter America?
Chinese Exclusion Act
which man did God use to start a Sunday school and win thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age?
D. L. Moody