Cattle Trails
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The first railroad that went across the country.
What is immigration?
When a person moves to a new country to live, in search of a better life.
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telephone
The United States sent the U.S.S. Maine to protect _______ to protect their American Business owners and citizens from Spain.
Cuba
Which United States president wanted access through the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
What does supply and demand mean?
supply - the amount there is of something
demand - the amount of something people actually want/need
Immigrants often came to America on crowded ___________.
Ships/boats
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the incandescent _________ __________.
Light bulb
In 1898, the _____ ______ was at war with ________.
United States, Spain
The Panama Canal was built to provide a ______ route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
shorter
What was the cattle drive AND what caused it?
Cattle was forced to Kansas and shipped from there to cities in need because there was a beef shortage in the northern states after the Civil War.
Name two groups of immigrants that came to America.
Irish, English, Germans, Jews, or Chinese.
Name two things that George Washington Carver invented.
Several products from peanuts: cooking oil, dyes for clothing, plastics, fertilizer, medicine, flour, soap, face powder.
The United States won the war, so Spain had to sign the _______ of _______.
Treaty of Paris
Why did Roosevelt want access through the Canal?
Who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese Immigrants,
Name two reasons that immigrants came to America.
Famine, in search of land, political unrest, persecution of religious beliefs, or in search of work.
Name two things that Henry Ford invented.
The Model T car and the assembly line.
What two important tasks did the Treaty of Paris accomplish?
1. Cuba became free.
2. The U.S. protected the countries of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.
What two oceans does the Panama Canal connect?
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
In order to get cattle from Texas to other states, cowboys used what trails?
The Chisolm Trail and The Great Western Trail
What is a port of immigration AND what are the names of the two we studied?
Where did the Wright Brothers invent the airplane?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The United States emerged as a _____ ______ after the _______ over Spain.
World Power, Spain
Why did it take ten years to complete the Panama Canal?