19th Century INVENTIONS/TECHNOLOGY
This invention helped carve up the open range.
What is barbed wire?
The right that free women were most concerned about during the 19th century
What is the right to vote?
The number of branches of government
What is 3?
What is True?
The Spanish-American War ended in this year
What is 1898?
Covered with a thin layer of gold leaf or paint
What is gilded?
The city most often associated with the steel industry
What is Pittsburgh?
Women were usually not allowed to wear these during the 19th century.
What are pants?
This animal is the symbol for the Republican Party.
What is an elephant?
The United States dropped its first atomic bomb on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
Teddy Roosevelt replaced him as president
Who is Wiliam McKinley?
According to the textbook, this bridge benefited everyone.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Along with the mechanical reaper, this development helped make farming more efficient.
What is the steel plow?
A more formal term meaning the right to vote
What is suffrage?
These three men have served as American presidents during the 21st century.
Who are Bush, Obama, and Trump?
In the book bomb, the German heavy water plant was located in this country.
What is Norway?
The nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt's cavalry regiment.
This group of individuals contributed significantly to US population growth during this time.
Who are immigrants?
This process made steel production more cost effective.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This term refers to a respectful exchange of ideas.
What is civil discourse?
The name of the secret American project to develop the bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
Exaggerated or simply made-up stories in the newspapers of the time
What is yellow journalism?
Workers used this strategy/technique to try and get improved working conditions.
What are strikes?
This is best known as the first modern machine gun.
What is the Maxim gun?
What is the bicycle?
He was president during the stock market crash of 1929.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This individual was put in charge of the American plan to develop an atomic bomb.
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
The U.S. ship that exploded in Havana harbor in Cuba
What is the USS Maine?
This term is given to a business that has complete control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
This technological development made the elevator practical.
What is the elevator brake?
A former slave, she became an outspoken voice for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The percentage of the US Senate which is female
What is 26%?
The town in New Mexico which was the focus of American bomb development.
What is Los Alamos?
The U.S. acquired these territories as a result of the war (name two)
What were the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Cuba?
What are unions?