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26 Cards in this Set
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Who is a person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country? |
immigrant |
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What 2 reasons did immigrants come to America? |
1. The freedoms that America had to offer and
2. because America was a land of opportunity. |
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What freedoms did America offer to immigrants? |
the freedoms of speech, press, and religion |
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From the days of early colonization, why did people come to America from Europe? |
for the freedom of religion |
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In the United States, every child could have a good _____. |
education |
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Who was a brilliant lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers? |
Charles Finney |
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Who was America's most famous evangelist at the end of the 1900s and was the founder of the Moody Bible Institute? |
Dwight L. Moody |
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Who was a baseball star who became a famous evangelist? |
Billy Sunday |
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Who was a missionary who served for many years in Burma and became known as the Father of American Missions? |
Adoniram Judson |
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Who built the steel industry in America? |
Andrew Carnegie |
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What Englishman developed a method of turning iron ore into steel? |
Sir Henry Bessemer |
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Who organized the oil industry in America? |
John D. Rockefeller |
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What missionary was a freed slave? |
George Liele |
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What is the manufacturing business, the kind of work that uses factories to make things? |
industry |
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What are 2 main products that allowed American industry to grow rapidly? |
1. steel and 2. oil |
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Who began to unite small companies into one big company? |
John D. Rockefeller |
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What did John D. Rockefeller name his company? |
Standard Oil |
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John D. Rockefeller was the first _____ in history? |
billionaire |
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Who built the first successful steamboat? and where was it built? |
Robert Fulton; New York |
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What was the name of Robert Fulton's first steamboat? |
Clermont |
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Where was the mail route of the pony express? |
from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California |
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Who believed that messages could be sent over long distances through a wire by electricity? |
Samuel Morse |
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What was Samuel Morse's invention? |
the telegraph |
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What was a system of short and long dots and dashes to be clicked over the telegraph wire? |
the Morse code |
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What was the first message ever typed over the telegraph? |
"What hath God wrought!" |
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Who was a teacher of students who were deaf and mute? |
Alexander Graham Bell |
