Span-Am, Gilded Age, Immigration

What did yellow journalism call for when the U.S.S. Maine exploded?

• Peace

• War

• Taxes

• Help

Gilded means:

• Tired from traveling on a boat to get to the United States

• Covered in gold on the outside but filled with drama or corruption underneath

• Digging for gold

• Tired from playing FortNite

Why was New York City known as the “Golden Door?”

• The door to the immigration office was gold.

• Immigrants from Europe easily passed through the immigration center in New York City.

• Immigrants came to the United States to escape from communist governments.

• Immigrants from Europe hoped to find economic opportunities in the United States.

Which feature made the Great Plains appealing to settlers in the late 1880s?

• skyscrapers

• flat grasslands for farming

• forested hills for lumber

• The big, blue skies

What is Cornelius Vanderbilt best known for?

• Owning a steamship company and railroad

• Making designer blue jeans

• Inventing refrigerated railcars

• Building skyscrapers

What is George Washington Carver best known for?

• being the first President of the U.S.

• creating Yellow Journalism to try to get America to go to war against Italy

• inventing peanut butter

• making important farming discoveries by researching peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products to help poor southern farmers have a variety of crops and improve their diets.

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• the cotton gin

• Taco Bell

• telephone

• the Internet

What is Henry Ford famous for?

• Making Chevrolet cars
  

• Making the Ford Model-T car

• Making Hershey chocolate bars

• Inventing the assembly line

What did Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell have in common?

• They both liked to talk on the phone.

• They have nothing in common.

• Their inventions are now used together often: the phone (Bell) and the microphone (Edison invented) used in cell phones and in many others ways).

• Their inventions helped farmers grow crops.

During the Gilded Age, immigrants came through what American city?

• Boston

• New York City

• Nashville

• Yorktown