history unit 7

abeka 8th grade

1865-1900

age of industry

1971

chicago fire

1893

world fair

alexander graham bell

invented telephone and telegraph

gardiner greene hubbard

funds money for telephone

thomas watson

assistant to alexander bell

march 10th 1876

words spoken on the telephone

thomas edison

inventor of incandescent lightbulb

nikola tesla

alternate currunt and ac and tesla coil inventor

lewis latimer

patent maker

george washington carver

inventor of crop rotation, found use for peanuts soybeans and sweet potatoes

christopher sholes

inventor of typewriter from a piano

george eastman

simplifies camera, invents kodak camera

1862

confirmed railroad idea

1869

united railroads at utah

two railroads

union pacific and central pacific

john roebling

invented bridging railroads

washington roebling

completed brooklyn bridge project

chicago

skyscraper place

louis sullivan

built wainwright building with elevators and brakes

joseph lister

invented antiseptics and anesthetics

provident hospital

colored people allowed

andrew carneige

carneige steel company, gave to people+libraries

sir henry bessemer

finds a process to turn iron to steel faster

edwin brake

drilled to find oil

john d rockefeller

started oil company

lyman stewert

union oil company

john hoppkins medical school

popularized research

adam smith

wrote wealth of nations

mark twain

called it the gilded age

old immigrants

north western

new immigrants

southern europe

homestead act

to live out west

joseph farwell glidden

invented barbed wire fence

wyatt earp

sheriff for outlaws

gunfight at O.K. corral, place?

tombstone california

souix war

indian war when gold discovered in sacred land

george armstong custer

wanted gold

sitting bull

medicine man

wounded knee massacre

killed souix bc of ghost dance

dawes act

reservations for indians

centennial state

colorado

last frontier

oklahoma

oliver hudson kelley

made the grange for farmers

greenbacks

political party who wanted more money

interstate commerence act

first government to help the farmers

sherman antitrust act

trade union/ factory workers

samuel gompers

federation of labor

sherman silver purchase act

silver coins

pullman strike

shut down railroads

bland allison act and sherman silver act

providing coinage of silver

haymarket square

someone threw a bomb and killed people

sherman anti trust act

broke large companies

interstate commerce commission

first goverment agency to deal with private business

transformation period

politics

winfeild s hancock

democrat, closest point in history

chester authur

by vice presidensy

pedleton service act

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