previous chapters
first to sigh the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
First battle of civil war
Fort Sumpter
Homestead act
160 acres
Garrett A. Morgan
gas mask
"Give me liberty of give me death"
Patrick Henry
mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Unions ironclad ship
Monitor
reservations
sections of land set aside for Indian tribes
Robert Goddard
liquid fueled rocket
Indian tribe famous for breeding appaloosa horses
Nez Perce
steamboat
Robert Fulton
Famous leader of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
immigrant
person who comes into a new country to live
Henry Ford
Model T, assembly line
tribe named for the color of their moccasins
Blackfoot
telegraph
Samuel Morse
general of all Union armies
Ulysses S. Gant
Morse code
system of dots and dashes used to send messages
Wilbur and Orville Wright
airplane
longest (not largest) river in the U.S.
Missouri River
electric light bulb
Thomas Edison
turning point of the war
Gettysburg
great land rush
Oklahoma Land Rush
Alexander Graham Bell
telephone