4th Grade History - Chapter 15
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rockefeller | the first billionaire |
| Sunday | preacher who was a famous baseball player |
| Fulton | invented the first successful steamboat |
| Liele | started the first Baptist church in Jamaica |
| Clermont | the name of the first successful steamboat |
| Judson | the father of American missions |
| Liele | first missionary to go from America |
| Finney | preacher who was a lawyer |
| DL Moody | shoe salesman; the most famous peracher in America at the end of the 1800s |
| Bessemer | invented a way to turn iron ore into steel |
| Standard Oil | the name of Rockefeller's oil company |
| Carnegie | brought the steel industry to America |
| Menlo Park, NJ | where Edison's invention factory was located |
| Morgan | invented the gas mask and traffic signal |
| "What hath God wrought!" | the first message sent over the telegraph |
| Pony Express | mail route from MO to CA |
| Goddard | launched the first successful liqiud-filled rocket |
| Ford | dreamed of making an affordable car |
| assembly line | the method which allowed each worker to do his own special job |
| Wright Brothers | invented the first successful airplane |
| Morse Code | the series of dots and dashes used to send messages across the telegraph |
| Kitty Hawk, NC | where the Wright brothers tested their glider |
| Watson | Bell's assistant |
| Matzeliger | patented the first shoe-lasting machine |
| Bell | invented the telephone |
| Morse | invented the telegraph |
| "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!" | first words spoken over the telephone |
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