Directions: Match each item in Column A with a detail in Column
B. Write the letter of each correct answer on the line.
Column A
1) Elisha Otis
2)Horatio Alger
3)Henry Ford
4) Thomas Edison
5) Booker T. Washington
6) Nelson Morris
7) Alexander Graham Bell
8) New York Central
9) George Washington Carver
10) Cornelius Vanderbilt
11) Great Northern
12) George Eastman
13) Ottmar Mergenthaler
14)
Menlo Park
15) James J. Hill
Column B
a) invented early telephone
b) started Tuskegee Institute
c)
location of Edison's research lab
invented the elevator
d)
e) invented typesetting machine
"The Empire Builder"
f)
g)
scientist who aided farming
h) helped inspire child labor laws
i) invented indoor electric lightbulb
j)
invented auto assembly line
k)
worked on the camera
linked railroads in the Northeast
m)
rail system to the Northwest
n) helped develop meat-packing industry
o) America's first great rail system
1)