Match these men with the appropriate items. 1. iron chancellor hay 2. afl roosevelt 3. open-door policy whitney 4. invented iron plow bismarck 5. alaskan purchase seward 6. battle of manila bay field 7. big stick policy fulton 8. standardized parts wood 9. invented telegraph gompers 10. invented steamboat drake 11. drilled first oil well dewey 12. trans-atlantic cable morse next

1. Iron Chancellor          Bismark

2. AFL                             Gompers

3. Open-Door Policy      Hay

4. invented iron plow    Wood  

5. Alaskan Purchase      Seward

6. battle of Manila Bay   Dewey  

7. Big Stick Policy           Roosvelt.  

8. standardized parts     Whitney

9. invented telegraph      Morse  

10. invented steamboat   Fulton  

11. drilled first oil well      Drake

12.trans-Atlantic cable   Field

Explanation:

1.- Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (Born von Bismarck-Schönhausen; German: Otto Eduard Leopold Fürst was a conservative Prussian politician known as the Iron chancelor.

2.-Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) was an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Creatot of the AFL union.

3.-Open Door policy, statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.

4.-Jethro Wood (March 16, 1774 – 1834) was the inventor of a cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts, the first commercially successful iron moldboard plow. His invention accelerated the development of American agriculture in the antebellum period.

5.- On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl.

6.- The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Contraalmirante (Rear admiral) Patricio Montojo. The battle took place in Manila Bay in the Philippines.

7.- big stick diplomacy. International negotiations backed by the threat of force. The phrase comes from a proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, who said that the United States should “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

8.-  A year later he invented the famous cotton gin, a machine used to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. In 1798, Whitney began manufacturing musket rifles for the new American government. At his armory he pioneered the use of interchangeable parts and the milling machine. Whitney died in 1825 at the age of 58

9.-Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

10.- The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. systems and, eventually, moved to France to work on canals. It was in France that he met Robert Livingston.

11.-Drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek, it is the first commercial oil well in the United States.

12.-Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

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