4th Grade 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
- Robert Goddard – launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket
Places
- Canada – separates the United States from Alaska
- Panama Canal:
- allows ships to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean without sailing around the tip of South America
- France was the first country to attempt 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
- owned and controlled by the United States but has not reached the status of statehood
- does not elect its own officials or vote for the President
Map work – know the
locations of states and capitals on a map
