Cattle Drives
Inventions & Business
America's Expansion
Immigration
Westward Expansion
100
used to transport cattle between Texas and Kansas
What were cattle drives?
100
invented many new ways to use the peanut and sweet potato
Who was George Washington Carver?
100
links the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
100
immigration station in New York City
What is Ellis Island?
100
general who lost at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Who was General George Custer?
200
Name 1 of the cattle drive trails
What is the Chisholm Trail or Great Western Trail?
200
improved communication in America by inventing the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
200
President during the Spanish-American War
Who was William McKinley?
200
symbol of freedom for the immigrants
What is the Statue of Liberty?
200
3 hardships of the Great Plains
What are prairie fires, grasshoppers, and harsh weather?
300
ex slaves and/or freed black men that worked on cattle drives
What are black cowboys?
300
made it easy for Americans to have electricity in their homes
Who was Thomas Edison?
300
president that built the Panama Canal
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
300
3 reasons why immigrants moved to America
answers vary (freedom, escape poverty, religious intolerance, war, jobs, food, etc)
300
Workers of the transcontinental railroad
Who were Irish immigrants, freed African Americans, and Chinese immigrants?
400
reason people from the East bought cattle from the west (in terms of supply and demand)
What is a higher supply and lower demand which made the price cheaper?
400
flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Who were the Wright Brothers?
400
used to impress other countries of America's new power
What was the Great White Fleet?
400
poorly built apartment buildings which housed immigrants
What are tenements?
400
gave settlers 160 acres if they farmed the land for 5 years
What was the Homestead Act?
500
caused the end of the cattle drives
What is barbed wire and railroads?
500
made America very rich and increased trade
What is big business?
500
American gained a lot of new land after winning this war
What was the Spanish-American War?
500
continent where most of the immigrants came from
Europe
500
used to build homes in the Great Plains
What is sod?
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