Inventors
The inventor who experimented with the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation.
What is a trust?
The evolutionist who promoted the idea that only the fittest survive in society.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
The leader of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Offered immigrant women childcare and medical care.
What is Jane Addams's Hull-House?
Patented and improved the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An economic system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses.
What is capitalism?
Wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word.
Who is B.B. Warfield?
The person who led America's oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The first sign of liberty and democracy when immigrants sailed into NY City
The creator of the QWERTY typewriter.
Who is Christopher Sholes?
Labor union.
What is an organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes?
This many was a traveling evangelist and there is university in Chicago named after him.
Who is D.L. Moody?
Wanted to build a good quality railroad called the Great Northern Railway.
Who is James J. Hill?
Popular cities where many immigrants settled.
What are Boston, Philadelphia, New York and San Franciso?
The inventor of a safer brake for trains.
Who is George Westinghouse?
A corporation.
What is a business that is owned by many people called?
The name of worship songs during the gilded age.
What are hymns?
People who gave away money to better society.
The man who immigrated from Denmark and wrote the book called "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
Another invention Thomas Edison created that recorded the human voice.
What is the phonograph
What sought to limit the power a corporation could have called?
The idea that preventing problems like poverty was more important than telling people about Christ.
The first man to make millions in the transportation industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Cities were crowded and hard to keep clean. Housing shortages. Children had to work to support their families.