1. Ch. 19 and 20 Review
Miss Taylor’s Class

2. INVENTORS

3. Who invented the telephone?

4. Alexander Graham Bell

5. Who invented the camera?

6. George Eastman

7. Who invented the shoe-making machine?
Hint:
He was a famous
African-American inventor.

8. Jan E. Matzeliger

9. Who invented the electric light bulb?

10. Thomas Edison

11. IMPORTANT PEOPLE

12. Railroad barons – who were they? Why were they bad?

13. Railroad Barons Example: Cornelius Vanderbilt
They controlled the nation’s rail traffic.
Why were they bad?
They consolidated the railroads, combined the larger companies into smaller ones.
Used monopolies to drive up the prices.

14. Who was Henry Ford?

15. Henry Ford Invented the assembly line. Created the first car – Model T
He was able to mass produce cars in order to sell them at a cheaper rate.

16. Who was John Dewey?

17. John Dewey He improved education in America.
He argued for progressive education –
“schools should relate learning to the interests, problems, and concerns of students, rather than rote memorization.”

18. Who was Mark Twain?

19. Mark Twain Famous author – he wrote: The Gilded Age
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

20. What was yellow journalism?

21. Newspaper reporters that exaggerated stories to attract the readers’ attention.