Chapter 5 Test Flashcards
The law that said no more Chinese from the working class could enter America.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Teacher for the deaf in Boston that invented the first telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Earned a fortune in the steel business and gave much of his money to build libraries
Andrew Carnegie
The machine that was the first to record the human voice and play it back
phonograph
The station set up where the US government provided help for immigrants
Ellis Island
The man God used to start a Sunday school and win thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age
D.L. Moody
Gift from France that reminded new immigrants of freedom
Statue of Liberty
Term that describes American culture in the late 1800s
Gilded Age
Type of theater that was a show made up of short acts
vaudeville
Man who invented the shoe laster
Jan Matzeliger
System that allows the people of a country to own the country’s goods and businesses
capitalism
Man who invented the phonograph
Thomas Edison
Invented the QWERTY keyboard
Christopher Sholes
An expert at shooting guns
Annie Oakley
Earned his wealth in the oil industry and gave much fo his money to medical research
John D. Rockefeller
Special treatment that milk needs to go through before being sold
pasteurization
Started a settlement house so that immigrant women could receive help
Jane Addams
Term that means the right to vote
suffrage
This place provided classes for immigrant women
Hull-House
Some of the greatest American poetry written during the Gilded Age was written by her
Emily Dickinson
Essay
How have labor laws improved the lives of children
They limited the number of hours a child could work and made it so children had to be a certain age to begin working.
Labor unions and reform workers wanted child-labor laws to limit children’s ________________
Hours they worked
Vanderbilt became rich through the ____________ business
railroad
