Westward Expansion and Division
Civil War and Railroads
Cities and America Booms
America Busts and World War II
Miscellaneous
100
These are two reasons people joined wagon trains.
Safety and being able to find the trail.
100
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
100
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from this country.
France
100
Known as Black Tuesday, this crashed on October 29, 1929.
stock market
100
The first governor of Maryland.
Thomas Johnson
200
The most popular animal used to pull wagons.
Ox
200
Name three states in the confederacy.
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
200
Led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Andrew Carnegie
200
12 year economic and social disaster that begins in the United States and eventually spreads around the world
Great Depression
200
A boy makes 30 throws to a basket but gets 12 throws. What is the probability of him making a basket in the next throw. In percentage.
40%
300
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
300
Abraham Lincoln’s decision to free the slaves in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
300
Who did Henry Ford want to build cars for.
The average man/person.
300
This war ended the Great Depression.
World War II
300
Does sound travel faster or slower as temperature increases?
Faster
400
The cotton gin made these two things more profitable.
slavery and cotton
400
Name one effect of the transcontinental railroad.
extermination of the buffalo, mail being delivered across the country, and settlers traveling west by train
400
This continuously moving thing, where employees did the same job over and over again, was used to build cars by Henry Ford for the first time.
Assembly Line
400
Ruler of Germany from 1934 – 1945, began invading and attacking other European countries beginning World War II.
Adolf Hitler
400
The current governor of Maryland.
Martin O'Malley
500
Largest cash crop in the south.
Cotton
500
These immigrants were hired to build the transcontinental railroad.
Irish and Chinese
500
These tall buildings allowed the population of cities to increase.
Skyscrapers
500
Emperor of Japan from 1926 – 1989. Attacked China and the United States in World War II.
Hirohito
500
The two Japanese cities that atomic bombs were dropped on ending World War II.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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