Chapter 5 Test

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 2

Teacher for the deaf in Boston that invented the first telephone

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 3

Earned a fortune in the steel business and gave much of his money to build libraries

Answer 3

Andrew Carnegie

Question 4

The machine that was the first to record the human voice and play it back

Answer 4

phonograph

Question 5

The station set up where the US government provided help for immigrants

Answer 5

Ellis Island

Question 6

The man God used to start a Sunday school and win thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age

Answer 6

D.L. Moody

Question 7

Gift from France that reminded new immigrants of freedom

Answer 7

Statue of Liberty

Question 8

Term that describes American culture in the late 1800s

Answer 8

Gilded Age

Question 9

Type of theater that was a show made up of short acts

Answer 9

vaudeville

Question 10

Man who invented the shoe laster

Answer 10

Jan Matzeliger

Question 11

System that allows the people of a country to own the country’s goods and businesses

Answer 11

capitalism

Question 12

Man who invented the phonograph

Answer 12

Thomas Edison

Question 13

Invented the QWERTY keyboard

Answer 13

Christopher Sholes

Question 14

An expert at shooting guns

Answer 14

Annie Oakley

Question 15

Earned his wealth in the oil industry and gave much fo his money to medical research

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

Special treatment that milk needs to go through before being sold

Answer 16

pasteurization

Question 17

Started a settlement house so that immigrant women could receive help

Answer 17

Jane Addams

Question 18

Term that means the right to vote

Answer 18

suffrage

Question 19

This place provided classes for immigrant women

Answer 19

Hull-House

Question 20

Some of the greatest American poetry written during the Gilded Age was written by her

Answer 20

Emily Dickinson

Question 21

Essay

How have labor laws improved the lives of children

Answer 21

They limited the number of hours a child could work and made it so children had to be a certain age to begin working.

Question 22

Labor unions and reform workers wanted child-labor laws to limit children’s ________________

Answer 22

Hours they worked

Question 23

Vanderbilt became rich through the ____________ business

Answer 23

railroad