Isabellas ch.14-15 history test Flashcards
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
Thomas Edison
Invented the incandescent light bulb he was also one of the greatest inventors in history
George Washington Carver
Developed ALOT of uses for the peanut
Wainwright building
First modern skyscraper
Elisha Otis
Invented the elevator
Andrew Carnegie
Produced Steel
Edwin L Drake
Drilled the first oil well
John D Rockefeller
Did the oil wells
Philanthropy
When rich people give away money
Crazy Horse
Chief of the sioux who led the Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Geronimo
Apache leader who surrendered
Sod houses
The common home
What happened to the population on the plains
It tripled
James Garfield
Got assassinated / shot
Grover Cleveland
Served for two non-consecutive presidencies
Dwight L Moody
Shoe salesman who brought the great Revival to Chicago and became the best known evangelist
Louisa May Alcott
Wrote the book Little Women
Louis Wallace
Wrote Ben-Hurr
Black Hills
Sacred territory of the sioux
Wyoming
The first state to allow women to vote
Centennial state
Colorado
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but equal - segregation