xassacs Flashcards
(32 cards)
Who was the Populist presidential candidate?
James B. Weaver
Who established the first modern scientific laboratory?
Thomas Edison
Who patented the first telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who developed a variety of a thornless cactus?
Luther Burbank
Who imported wheat from Russia?
Mark Carleton
Who discovered the Bessemer process?
William Kelly
Who drilled America’s first oil well?
Edwin Drake
Who invented basketball in 1891?
James Naismith
Who is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Who opposed the Tammany Hall political machine as New York governor?
Grover Cleveland
What type of entrepreneur was Andrew Carnegie?
steep entrepreneur
Who organized the U.S. Steel Corporation?
J.P. Morgan
Who organized the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Who was a German immigrant advocating civil service reform?
Carl Schurz
A ________ is a business that operates to save its members money rather than to profit.
cooperative (co-op)
William Jennings Bryan’s ______________ speech helped him win the Democratic presidential nomination for the election of 1896.
“Cross of Gold”
One of Nikola Tesla’s greatest inventions was the _______ which was used in early radio transmitters.
Tesla coil
The former Confederate states became known as the _________ because of the rapid and numerous changes in the Southern economy.
New South
In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling against Granger law’s, the first federal regulatory agency, the _______ was created.
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
In the 1890’s, a _______ craze swept over American cities after the invention’s safety and awkwardness was addressed.
bicycling
To spread charity with the Gospel, William Booth founded the _________.
Salvation Army
In what year was the telephone patented?
1876
Who has been called one of the greatest inventors in history?
Thomas Edison
What innovation in farming prevented soil from being depleted too quickly?
crop rotation
