Black Cowboys
What did the black cowboys used to be?
Slaves.
The name of the US Navy Ship
What is the USS Maine?
The country where the canal is
What is Panama?
Where were immigrants coming from?
Europe.
Why are inventors important?
They help make life better.
Where were the cowboys moving the cattle to?
To the railroads.
The countries fighting in the war
Who are Spain and America?
The president who started the canal?
Who is Theodor Roosevelt?
Why were immigrants leaving?
To escape taxes, war, food shortages, and persecution.
The inventor of the electric lightbulb
Who is Thomas Eddison?
Where were the railroads going?
Chicago.
The length of the war
What is less than 5 months?
How did the Canal improve the economy?
Ships were charged to pass through.
What was the name of the place immigrants were processed.
Ellis Island.
Inventor of flight
Who are the Wright Brothers?
What was it like on the cattle trails?
It was harsh and dangerous.
The reason America sent a ship to Cuba
What is to protect American in Cuba?
Who owned the canal when it was built?
The United States.
What did the immigrants do while being processed?
They were interviewed and given a medical exam.
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Why did farmers want to send the cattle east?
Cattle was worth more.
The land America gained at the end of the war
What is the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
The reason the canal was created.
What is to make boat travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean faster and shorter?
Were all immigrants allowed in the United States? Why?
No, they were sent back if they were too sick.
The inventor of crop rotations
Who is George Washington Carver?