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Chapters 15 and 16
Chapter 15 People
Question: Inventor of the incandescent light bulb, among other inventions, known as the greatest inventor in American history
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison
Question: Inventor of the telephone
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Question: Horticulturist who worked at Tuskegee Institute and transformed farming in the south by encouraging crop rotation.
Answer: George Washington Carver
Question: Inventor of the Kodak camera
Answer: George Eastman
Question: Founder of the Standard Oil Company who made a fortune in the oil industry
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Chapter 16 People
Question: Sioux Indian Chief who killed General Custer and all of his men at Little Big Horn
Answer: Crazy Horse
Question: First democratic president since the Civil War and the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question: Republican president who was assassinated after only 4 months in office by a man who felt he had been cheated out of his job.
Answer: James Garfield
Question: Republican president who was assassinated in 1901. He favored the gold standard
Answer: William McKinley
Question: Poetess who wrote short, untitled poetry that was not published until after her death
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Things
Question: Legislation that opened the Great Plains for settlement in 1862. Granted 160 acres of land to anyone willing to live on it and start a farm
Answer: Homestead Act
Question: Court case that declared racial segregation was legal in the U.S.
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
Question: This offered land and U.S. citizenship to to any head of an Indian family who would take up farming or ranching
Answer: Dawes Act
Question: Government agency formed to regulate private business; regulated railroad shipping rates
Answer: Interstate Commerce Commission
Question: Party composed of Farmer's Alliance and several other labor groups that promoted the free coinage of silver
Answer: Populist Party
Places
Question: Dedicated on October 28, 1886 in New York Harbor
Answer: Statue of Liberty
Question: Site of the battle between General Custer and Crazy Horse
Answer: Little Big Horn
Question: Rugged hills in South Dakota promised to the Indians and regarded as sacred to the Sioux Indians
Answer: Black Hills
Question: America's first modern skyscraper
Answer: Wainwright Building
Question: The 1893 World's Fair was held here
Answer: Chicago, Illinos
Terms
Question: A person who gives away large sums of money to individuals or private charities
Answer: Philanthropist
Question: One who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product
Answer: Entrepreneur
Question: Common type of housing for settlers on the prairie as wood was scarce
Answer: sod houses
Question: What Mark Twain called the Age of Industry
Answer: Gilded Age
Question: This happens when the prices of goods suddenly increase within a given economy
Answer: Inflation