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100

gas mask (worth 500!!!)

boNUs (700) what other invention is he famous for?

Garrett A. Morgan; 3 color stoplight/stoplight

100

one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

100

America's most famous evangelist during the 19th century

Dwight L. Moody

100

previously named Russian America

Alaska

200

electric lightbulb

Thomas Edison

200

16th president of the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln

200
shot President Lincoln

John Wilkes Boothe

200

territory that became our 50th state

Hawaii

200

a person who comes into a new country to live

immigrant

300

inventor of the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

300

organized America's oil industry

BonUS: (300) what other notable distinction did this man have?

John D. Rockefeller; world's first billionaire

300
invented the telegraph

Samuel Morse

300

southern states that left the Union to form their own nation

Confederate States of America

300

people who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery

abolitionists

300

Lincoln's announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union

Emancipation Proclamation

400

telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

400

invented the airplane

BonUS (400 each name) what were their first names?

the Wright brothers; Wilbur and Orville

400

president of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

400

one of the greatest land rushes was in what is now this state

Oklahoma

400

system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph

Morse code

400

Homestead Act

gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the West

500

mechanical reaper

bONuS (400) what plant was this usually used for?

Cyrus McCormock; wheat

500

brought the steel industry to America

Andrew Carnegie

500

founded the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

500

where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

500

sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes

reservations

500

battle where the turning point of the Civil War occurred

Gettysburg

600

Model T.

bOnuS (600) this person also wrote a book about what group of people?

Henry Ford; Jews

600

founder of the Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington

600

leader of the Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt

600

capitol of the Confederate states

Richmond, Virginia

600

system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid-1800's to help slaves flee to freedom

Underground Railroad

600

"remember the Maine" was a slogan during this war

bONuS: What was this war fought over?

Spanish American War; freedom of Cuba

700

steamboat

Robert Fulton

700

developed the assembly line method of production

Henry Ford

700

Union general whose "march to the sea" hastened the end of the war

BonUS boNUS (700) what state did this primarily take place in?

William T. Sherman; Georgia

700

place (fort) where the first battle of the Civil War began in 1861

Fort Sumter

700

a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument

compromise


700

The Union's ironclad ship

bONuS: (600) What was the Confederacy's ironclad called?

Monitor; Merrimack

800

liquid-fuel rocket

Robert Goddard

800

general who became commander of all Union armies in 1864

Ulysses S. Grant

800

his lab was known as "God's Little Workshop"

George Washington Carver

800

battle that cut the South in two and gave control of the Mississippi to the Union

Vicksburg

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