Cowboys
*got paid well
*can experience freedom and adventure
*were respected
What are the reasons African-Americans were attracted to life as a cowboy?
Reason for building the Panama Canal.
What is to help the military and trading ships get from the east coast to the west coast quicker?
*religious freedom
*possible for owning land
*opportunity for improved life and more money
What are the reasons people immigrated to the United States?
List 3 outcomes of the Spanish-American War.
What is:
*claiming the Phillippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico as territories?
*Cuba gains their independence?
*the United States is seen as a world power (because they defeated Spain)?
Describe the population changes at the turn of the century.
What is many immigrants came to America arriving on the east coast and many people migrated west?
[As people migrated west, this alleviated the congested cities in the east and increased the population out west.]
The cattle trails and cowboy era was short. Explain why.
What is the railroads expanded into South Texas, making the cattle drives to up the Midwest not needed?
What is there was less cattle on the east coast and they could make more money selling them there than in Texas?
Define specialization.
What is when you focus on doing one things really well so that you can be the best at that one thing?
What is Cuba?
What is poor living quarter, poor wage, and discrimination?
What is sharecropping?
By fighting the Spanish-American War the U.S. gains a lot of economic power. What are the reasons the U.S. uses to justify their entering war?
What is the sinking of the USS Maine, we can be seen as a world power, and we help Cuba gain its independence from Spain?
Impacted life by creating a faster way to travel in the air.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Describe yellow journalism.
What is when a writer or editor who feels war is necessary writes to convince Americans that war with Spain is necessary? [Writers who influence public opinion.]
What is the ability to find work due to the fast growth of industry?
Name two trails important to cowboys that stretched from Texas into the Midwest allowing cattle to be moved easily from one area to another.
What are the Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Trail?
The belief that the United States could and would use force if necessary.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Who is Roosevelt?
Give a negative consequence for immigrants who leave their home to come to the United States.
What is families becoming separated across continents?
Give 2 ways cowboy life was dangerous.
What are stampedes and raids?
The United States forcibly moves Native American off their land to personally benefit the people of the United States. Give examples of what the United States has done.
What is:
*Homesteaders take their land?
*the US expands into the West using Railroads?
*We gave them land and then took it back (like when we found gold)?
This person is most famous for helping farmers understand the importance of rotating crops.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The person responsible for helping defeat Spain in the Spanish-American War.
Who is McKinley?
Many immigrants found jobs in the 1800's where?
What is factories in the North?
[Along the coast line and close to where they arrived.]