U.S. chapter 15

Question 1

immigrant

Answer 1

person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country

Question 2

industry

Answer 2

the manufacturing business; a kind of work that uses factories to make things

Question 3

pony express

Answer 3

mail service which used fast horses to carry to carry the mail from ST. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California

Question 4

telegraph

Answer 4

machine that sends messages over long distances through wire by electricity

Question 5

Morse code

Answer 5

system of short and long dots and dashes to be clicked over telegraph wires

Question 6

assembly line

Answer 6

method of production where each worker has his own special job to do

Question 7

Charles Finney

Answer 7

brilliant lawyer who became one of America’s greatest revival preachers

Question 8

Dwight L. Moody

Answer 8

America’s most famous evangelist at the end of the 1800s; founder of Moody Bible Institute

Question 9

Billy Sunday

Answer 9

baseball star who became known as the Father of American Missions

Question 10

Adoniram Judson

Answer 10

missionary who served for many years in Burma and became known as the Father of American Missions

Question 11

George Liele

Answer 11

America’s first missionary to a foreign land; probably the first ordained black preacher in America

Question 12

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 12

man who built the steel industry in America

Question 13

Sir Henry Bessemer

Answer 13

Englishman who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel

Question 14

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 14

man who organized the oil industry in America

Question 15

Robert Fulton

Answer 15

man who developed the first successful steamboat

Question 16

Clermont

Answer 16

Robert Fulton’s first successful steamboat

Question 17

Samuel Morse

Answer 17

man who invented the telegraph and developed the Morse code

Question 18

Alexandra Graham Bell

Answer 18

teacher of deafmutes who invented the telephone

Question 19

Thomas A. Watson

Answer 19

Alexandra Graham Bell’s assistant

Question 20

Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 20

man who invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many other things

Question 21

Henry Ford

Answer 21

man who developed the assembly line and used it to build the Model T, an inexpensive car that nearly every American family could afford

Question 22

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Answer 22

brothers who built and flew the first successful airplane

Question 23

Robert Goddard

Answer 23

man who launched the first successful liquid fuel rocket ever built

Question 24

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Answer 24

man who designed the first shoe-lasting machine

Question 25

Garrett A. Morgan

Answer 25

man who invented the gas mask and the traffic signal with red, yellow, and green lights

Question 26

Menlo Park, New Jersey

Answer 26

location of the laboratory where Thomas Edison did most of his experiments

Question 27

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Answer 27

place where the Wright Brothers made their first successful airplane flights