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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Henry Ford | invented the Model T car & assembly line |
| Garrett Morgan | invented a traffic signal with colored lights |
| Thomas Edison | invented the phonograph |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| Booker T. Washington | man who founded and built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
| George Washington Carver | born a slave but became a famous scientist who worked with plants |
| Sir Henry Bessemer | developed a method of turning iron ore into steel |
| John D. Rockefeller | organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history |
| Promontory Point, Utah | where the two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met |
| What are 2 changes brought about by the transcontinental railroad? | helped to settle the West, East was brought closer to the West |
| Why was the Model T so inexpensive? | It was built on an assembly line. |
| George Liele | first missionary to a foreign country |
| Connecticut | Hartford |
| New Jersey | Trenton |
| New York | Albany |
| Augusta | Maine |
| Massachusetts | Boston |
| New Hampshire | Concord |
| Pennsylvania | Harrisburg |
| Rhode Island | Providence |
| Vermont | Montpelier |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| Who made the first successful airplane? | Orville Wright |
| Who made a shoe-lasting machine? | Jan Matzeliger |
| Who made the first successful steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| Who started out as a lawyer but became one of America's greatest revival preachers? | Charles Finney |
| Who was a famous baseball player who was saved and began preaching? | Billy Sunday |
| Who is known as the "Father of American Missions"? | Adoniram Judson |
| Who started out as a shoe salesman but turned into an evangelist? | Dwight Moody |
| Who made millions of dollars in the steel industry? | Andrew Carnegie |
| What were the names of the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad? | The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Company |
| What Act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm it for 5 years? | Homestead Act |
| What was the only area left to be settled by the mid 1800s? | west |
| What was the mail route from Missouri to California called? | pony express |
| What is the code of short and long dashes clicked over a telegraph wire called? | Morse Code |
| Delaware | Dover |
| How did the telegraph bring the East and West closer together? | People did not feel so out of touch because they could send messages instantly |
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