History: Chapter Review pg 57-58

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man who invented the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

man who earned a fortune in the steel business

Andrew Carnegie

The law that said no more Chinese from the working class could enter America.

Chinese Exclusion Act

man who became rich through the railroad and shipping

Cornelius Vanderbilt

man God used to win thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age

D.L. Moody

The station the US government set up to provide help for the immigrants.

Ellis Island

BONUS!!!! True or False: Is Mrs. Ross related to Thomas Edison?

FALSE: Fun fact though....I am related to D.L. Moody :)

True or False: The first machine to record the human voice and play it back was the QWERTY keyboard

False; phonograph

True or False: The telephone could pasteurize the human voice over wires.

False; transmit

True or False: A type of theater that became popular during the Gilded Age was a show made up of short acts called the circus.

False; vaudeville

The term that is used to describe American culture in the late 1800's.

Gilded Age

lady who started a settlement house for immigrant women to receive help

Jane Addams

man who earned his wealth in the oil industry

John D. Rockefeller

The gift from France that reminded new immigrants of freedom.

Statue of Liberty

man who invented the phonograph

Thomas Edison

True or False: During the Gilded Age some of the greatest American poetry was written by Emily Dickinson.

True

True or False: During the Gilded Age the need for women's suffrage became more accepted.

True

A system that allows the people of a country to own the country's goods and businesses.

capitalism

A painting of a person that became a popular form of art during the Gilded Age.

portrait

A new form of music that became popular at the end of the 1800s.

ragtime


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