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The 25th US President / assassinated / Expanded US role on the world stage
Who was William McKinley?
The first people to successfully fly and control an airplane.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
A group of islands close to Asia, this nation became a US territory after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
This famous cattle trail was named after Jesse, a Cherokee trader.
What was the Chisholm Trail?
What was the Spanish-American War?
The name given to the phenomenon of the US population migrating from east to west under the belief of Manifest Destiny.
What was Westward Expansion?
He invented the telephone, but never call his mother.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
This famous toy was named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Teddy Bear?
One of the most famous one's being in Kansas, a place where cattle are loaded onto trains.
What is a railhead?
Theodore Roosevelt's famous regiment of Calvary fighters in the Spanish-American war.
What were the Rough Riders?
Only 90 miles south of Florida, this island nation was the main theater of the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
This officially ended the Spanish-American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Since it was the first time that Americans of different races worked well together on a grand scale, these particular people are studied in history class.
Who were the black cowboys?
Other than Guam and the Philippines, the US also gained this island as a territory after the Spanish American War.
What is Puerto Rico?
250 American sailors died in the explosion of this battleship off the coast of Cuba, leading to the Spanish-American War.
What was the USS Maine?
A chain or group of islands is called this?
What is an archipelago?
Starting with an "L," it means profitable.
What is lucrative?
This law encouraged Americans to move out west.
What was the Homestead Act?
Known as the wizard of Menlo Park, he invented the lightbulb, phonograph, an many other things.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Routes where cows were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas were given this name.
What are Cattle Trails?
In the 1800s, American newspapers committed this colorful, but questionable practice to boost sales.
What is yellow journalism?
This longer, more westerly cattle trail was given this name.
What was the Great Western Cattle Trail?
This island nation became a US territory after the Spanish-American War with the motto, "Where America's Day Begins."
What is Guam?
He was a celebrated African American botanist known as the friend of the American farmer.
Who was George Washington Carver?
This Spanish-American War hero would later become America's 26th president. Bully for you!
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?