History: Chapter Review pg 57-58
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