Reconstruction
What were the years after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
What is the name of the law that gave settlers free land on the Great Plains?
Homestead Act
What inventor is known for creating the first automobile?
Henry Ford
What is the name for people who move to another country?
Immigrants
What group of people became free after the Civil War?
Slaves
What group of states rejoined the United States during Reconstruction?
Southern States
What group of people had been living on the land out west before the settlers came?
Native Americans
Who is known for inventing the first electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What is the name for the land that was given to the Native Americans to live on?
Reservations
True or False: African American women were given the right to vote with the 15th amendment.
False
What number Amendment said that African Americans were citizens and all people have equal rights?
14th Amendment
What is the land between Iowa and the Rocky Mountains called?
Great Plains
Who invented the first phone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What vocabulary word is the act of setting apart?
Segregation
What is the animal that the Native Americans hunted?
Buffalo
What is the name of the African American man that started a school to help African Americans get better jobs?
Booker T. Washington
What was placed in the ground where the railroad from the east met with the railroad from the west?
Golden spike
Who invented the first elevator?
Elisha Graves Otis
In an _____________________________, a produce moves from worker to worker until it is put together.
assembly line
What was built to make travel from the east to the west easier?
Railroads
What is something that the African Americans wanted to learn how to do after they became free?
Read and Write
Name at two things that people had to do in order to get the free land with the Homestead Act:
Live on the land for five years
Build a house and farm on the land
Who invented the first traffic signal?
Garrett Morgan
A long moving belt that carries parts past factory workers.
conveyor belt
Where did the Wright brother fly their first airplane?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina