Progressive Era and Inventors

Progressive Era and Inventors EOC Review

By Kevin Greene

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Multiple Choice

What was the historical significance of the National Women's Suffrage Association?

• To make sure women had full equal rights

• Making sure women had access to early reforms such as birth control

• To fight for the right of women to have the right to vote

• Fighting for the right to women to have equal rights in the military

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Multiple Choice

Which African American inventor is credited with over 50 patents on lubricating systems for steam Engines?

• Garret Morgan

• Elijah McCoy

• Sarah Goode

• John Burr

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Multiple Choice

Which inventor predicted that,"The day will come when telephone wires will be laid on houses just like water and gas- and friends will converse without leaving home."

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Howard Latimer

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Lewis Howard Latimer

Multiple Choice

This invention was patented by Sarah Goode, the first African American women to ever receive a patent?

• a curving ironing board

• a lubricator cup for steam engines

• a unique shampoo for hairloss

• the first foldaway bed

Multiple Choice

What goal motivated Henry Flagler to build the Florida East Coast Railroad?

• to encourage the U.S. government to build a canal in Panama.

• to bring tourists to the luxury hotels he built along the Florida Coast.

• to create a refuge for people immigrating to the U.S. from Latin America.

• to build a "dream town" with the money he made from his partnership with John. D. Rockefeller