4^th Grade History

Study Guide – Chapters 15 & 16

People

Sir Henry Bessemer – developed a method of turning iron ore into steel

Andrew Carnegie – made millions of dollars in the steel industry

William Gorgas – helped rid Cuba and Panama of disease carrying mosquitoes

Billy Sunday – baseball player who preached the gospel

Charles Finney – a lawyer who became a great revival preacher

Dwight L. Moody – a shoe salesman who became a famous evangelist and founder of the Moody Bible Institute

Adoniram Judson – one of the first missionaries to India, known as the "Father of American Missions"

Thomas Alva Edison – invented the phonograph

Robert Fulton – invented the first successful steamboat

Orville Wright – flew the first successful airplane (for twelve seconds)

Garrett Morgan – a traffic signal with colored lights

Jan Matzeliger – invented a shoe-lacing machine

Samuel Morse – invented the telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell – invented the telephone

Henry Ford – invented the Model T car 

Places

Canada – separates the United States from Alaska

Panama Canal

1. allows ships to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean without sailing around the tip of South America

2. France was the first country to attempy to build the Panama Canal

Philippine Islands – where Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet during the Spanish-American War

United States – won the Spanish-American War

Russian America – Alaska was once called this

Gold – Alaska was considered worthless to most Americans until gold was discovered in 1896

Territory

1. owned and controlled by the United States but has not reached the status of statehood

2. does not elect its own officials or vote for the President

Robert Goddard – launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket

Map work – know the locations of states and capitals on a map