Chapter 26 - An Age of Democracy and Progress

Alexander Graham Bell

________ was a deaf student's teacher who, in his leisure time, invented the telephone.

John MacDonald

________, Canada's first prime minister, pushed the country westward by buying territory and persuading frontier areas to join the union.

Ireland

________ endured one of the greatest famines in modern history in the 1840s.

Conflict

________ arose in Canada as a result of religious and cultural differences between the predominantly Roman Catholic French colonists and the predominantly Protestant English- speaking colonists.

Mexico

________ gave territory to the United States as part of the Mexican- American War settlement.

Slave labor

________ was used by Southern landowners.

Wilbur

________ and Orville Wright, two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, solved the age- old puzzle of flight.

germ theory of disease

The ________ was a significant development in medical history.

Manifest destiny

________ was used by government leaders to justify evicting Native Americans from their tribal territories.

Thomas Edison

________ patented almost 1, 000 inventions during his career, including the light bulb and the phonograph.

Pasteur

________ discovered that microscopic organisms he dubbed bacteria were responsible for the fermentation of alcohol while studying it.

Edison

________ established a research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, early in his career.

plant disease

A(n) ________ damaged nearly all of Ireland's potato crop from 1845 to 1848.

Louis Pasteur

________, a French chemist, invented it in the mid- 1800s.