Cattle Trails
The reason farmers in Texas needed to move their cattle to the east.
What is they would get more money for their cattle out east?
Invented the first usable lightbulb and is known for his quote "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Who is Thomas Edison?
Cuba wanted help from the US to break free from this country's control.
Who is Spain?
A manmade waterway built as a passageway for ships is called this.
What is a canal?
People leaving their country to go to another are doing this.
What is emigrating?
The name of the trail the cowboys used to move their cattle, that was originally used for wagons.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
Alexander Graham Bell invented this.
What is the telephone?
This president sent the USS Maine to Cuba.
Who is President McKinley?
The French began building the Panama Canal but had to stop because of this.
What is sickness? (What is Malaria? What is Yellow Fever?)
People wanted to leave their homeland for one of these reasons.
What is hoping for a better life?
What is escaping from government cruelty?
What is religious freedom?
What is job opportunities?
The Former slaves that joined the Texan farmers on the cattle drive were referred to as this.
Who is the Black Cowboys of Texas?
The man who created over 300 products using peanuts, ss well as introduced crop rotation.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Who is Spain?
The completed Panama Canal shortened ships trips from 13,000 miles to this many miles.
What is 5,000 miles?
Most immigrants came from this country.
Where is Europe?
The name of the trail that was used to herd cattle up through Nebraska to railroad loading points.
What is the Great Western Cattle Trail?
The Wright Brothers succeed with their first flight here.
Where is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
The Spanish-American War lasted this long and resulted in the Treaty of Paris.
This president stated “By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was president was related to the Panama Canal.”
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
Island immigrants landed on to find out if they would be permitted to enter the US.
Where is Ellis Island?
Out of the 35,000 cowboys that worked on the cattle trails, about this many of them were black cowboys.
What is 9,000?
The Wright brothers first flight lasted this long.
What is 12 seconds?
The Treaty of Paris gave Cuba its freedom from Spain and the US gained these territories.
What is Guam, Philippines and Puerto Rico?
The doctors taught the workers working on the Panama Canal this to keep them safe.
What is to drain the swamp water? (What is to use mosquito nets?)
If immigrants passed inspection they were taken to this city.
Where is New York City?