Inventors
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Location of a hurricane that cost the deadliest natural disaster in United States history
Galveston, Texas
baseball player turned evangelist
Billy Sunday
Location of the successful airplane flight
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Elevation; height above sea level
altitude
Invented the gas mask
Garrett Morgan
Location of a large earthquake, which caused fires that destroyed the city
San Francisco, California
Brought the steel industry to America
Andrew Carnegie
Where Rosevelt's Rough Riders had an important victory during the Spanish American War
San Juan Hill
piece of land nearly surrounded by water
peninsula
Invented the steamboat
Robert Fulton
Amusement park called the poor man's paradise
Coney Island
started the Standard Oil company
John D. Rockefeller
Location of America's first subway system
Boston, Massachusetts
highest point of a mountain
peak
Made the first successful gasoline engine in an airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright
first center of skyscraper architecture
Chicago, Illinois
George Dewey
The former entry port for immigration on the WEST coast
Angel Island
deep, narrow valley with steep sides
canyon
Launch the first successful liquid fuel rocket
Robert Goddard
Strip of land connecting North and South America
Isthmus of Panama
set up a government in the Philippines before becoming president of the United States
William Howard Taft
Three countries that became territories of the US after the Spanish-American War
Guam, Phillipines, Puerto Rico
narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land
isthmus