Social Studies Study Guide Ch.5: All That Glitters

Social Studies Study Guide Ch.5: All That Glitters

station set up by the US government to provide help for immigrants

Ellis Island

the first machine to record the human voice and play it back

phonograph

started a settlement house so that immigrant women could receive help

Jane Addams

Statue of Liberty

gift from France that reminded new immigrants of freedom

man who invented the phonograph

Thomas Edison

Andrew Carnegie

earned a fortune in the steel business and gave much of his money to build libraries

type of theatre that was a show made up of short acts

vaudeville

suffrage

the right to vote

a teacher for the deaf in Boston who invented the first telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

Chinese Exclusion Act

law that said that no more Chinese from the working class could enter America

invented the QWERTY keyboard

Christopher Sholes

system that allows the people of a country to own the country’s goods and businesses

capitalism

term that describes American culture in the late 1800’s

Gilded Age

pasteurization

special treatment that milk needs to go through before being sold

Annie Oakley

female expert at shooting guns

man who invented the shoe laster

Jan Matzeliger

earned his wealth in the oil industry and gave much of his money to medical research

John D. Rockefeller

D.L. Moody

started a Sunday school and won thousands of people to Christ during the Gilded Age

Hull-House

a settlement house that provided classes for immigrant women

Cornelius Vanderbilt

became rich through the railroad and through shipping

__________ came to America to find land for sale at a good price

immigrants

wrote some of the greatest American poetry ever written

Emily Dickinson

labor unions and reform workers wanted child-labor laws to limit the number of _____ a child could work

hours

explain how labor laws improved the lives of children

limits were placed on the number of hours a child could work, decisions were made on what age a child could begin working