ABEKA 8, AMERICA: LAND I LOVE - CHAPTER 15

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Wainwright Building

Name the first modern american skyscraper.

Kerosene

What type of fuel replaced whale oil and provided a cheap way to light homes and businesses?

Henry Bessemer

Who developed an inexpensive way to turn iron ore into steel?

Lyman Stewart

Who established the Union Oil Company?

John Rockefeller

Who formed Standard Oil Company?

William Booth

Who founded the Salvation Army?

George Eastman

Who invented the box camera and roll film?

Albert Alva Edison

Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

Elisha Otis

Who invented the safety elevator?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who invented the telephone?

Mark Twain

Who nicknamed the period 1865-1900 the "Gilded Age"?

Andrew Carnegie

Who owned the largest steel manufacturing company in the world?

John Roebling

Who pioneered the design of suspension bridges?

Jane Addams

Who started the Hull House?

Thomas Watson

Who supplied the "hands" to produce the first telephone?

George Washington Carver

Who worked in the study and growing of plants?

D. L. Moody

The former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist.

Louis Sullivan

What architect pioneered the building of skyscrapers?

The first transcontinental railroad was completed

What event took place at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869?

Philanthropy

What term refers to the practice of givings away large sums of money to needy individual and charities?


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