Inventors
Vocab
The West
Culture
Native Americans
100

The inventor of the light bulb

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

a manufacturing system in which each worker performs an assigned task again and again

What is the assembly line?

100

This invention led to the expansion of the west

What is the railroad?

100

Due to the invention of steel, cities were able to start constructing these types of buildings

What are skyscrapers?

100

American settlers constantly took this from Natives sparking conflict

What is their land?

200

The inventor of the Telephone

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

200

a grant of money, often from the government, to a person or company for an action intended to benefit the public

What is a subsidy?

200

People in Texas took this animal on "Long Drives" to sell at markets in Missouri and Kansas

What is cattle?

200

Henry Ford used this new production method to mass produce his cars

What is the assembly line?

200

This area was designated for only Native Americans until it was opened for settlers in 1889

What is Oklahoma?

300
The inventors of the airplane

Who are the Wright Brothers?

300

name given to early Great Plains farmers

What is a sodbuster?

300

This railroad connected the east coast to the west coast

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

300

During the late 1800's and early 1900's, women led the temperance movement, also called prohibition, which calls for the banning of this product

What is Alcohol?

300

Native Americans relied on this animal for survival in the Great Plains until it was overhunted by American settlers

What is the buffalo?

400

The inventor of the Model T

Who is Henry Ford?

400

a journalistic writing style exaggerating the dramatic or shocking aspects of a story

What is Yellow Journalism?

400

This act offered free, or very cheap land, to American families who agreed to settle in the Great Plains

What is the Homestead Act?

400

During the late 1800's and early 1900's these places were extremely dirty and unpleasant places to live

What are cities?

400

The US Army massacred native people here after a gun mistakenly discharged

What is Wounded Knee?

500

The inventor of Morse Code

Who is Samuel Morse?

500

an investigative reporter who exposed corruption in business

What is a muckraker?

500

People living the the Great Plains had to make their homes out of sod due to the lack of this resource

What is trees/lumber/wood?

500

Poor people lived in these small, crowded and dangerous buildings in big cities

What are tenements?

500

Natives won this battle against the US Army and were later forced off of their land to reservations

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?

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