Transportation
Vanderbilt and Morgan built these
What are railroads?
Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor who founded the McCormick Company that produced these machines necessary for commercial farming.
What are reapers or harvesters?
Samuel Morse invented this early long distance communication devise
What is the telegraph?
This was constructed in the 1860's and linked California to the rest of the country
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
The Germans used these to sink American ships in both World Wars
What are submarines?
Ford used these to make his cars quickly and cheaply
What are assembly lines and interchangeable parts?
Joseph Glidden closed the the open range with this invention
What is barbed wire?
Alexander Graham Bell invented this improved long distance communication devise
What is the telephone?
This manmade waterway linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and gave the USA a global trade advantage
What is the Panama Canal?
This man pioneered interchangeable parts in his production of revolvers(pistols)
Who is Samuel Colt
These guys named Orville and Wilber successfully flew the first manned airplane at Kittyhawk, NC
(hint: the didn't do it wrong)
Who are the Wright brothers?
Contour plowing, crop rotation, reducing the destruction of native grasses and other land-friendly techniques are used to prevent a second one of these disasters
What is a "dust bowl?"
Guglielmo Marconi invented this mass communication device that FDR used to talk to the American people
What is the radio?
These Hoover and Roosevelt's New Deal projects put Americans back to work and supplied water and electricity
What are dams?
Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the construction of the first of these ultimate weapons during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos New Mexico in the 1940's.
What are atomic or nuclear bombs?
President Eisenhower pushed this nationwide transportation project in the 1950's.
(one goes through Waco)
What is the interstate highway system?
An African American man named George Washington Carver found many uses for these legumes
What are peanuts?
Good looks combined with this communication device helped JF Kennedy get elected
What is television?
Without Carnegie's mass production of steel and Otis' elevator, these would not have been possible
What are skyscrapers?
Napalm and Agent Orange were defoliants used extensively in this controversial jungle war of the 1960's and early 70's
What is Vietnam?
The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in New Jersey. There were 36 fatalities in the crash of this type of early airship. ("Oh, the humanity")
What is a zeppelin(or blimp, dirigible)?
The production of these controversial modified foods began in 1994
What are GMOs(genetically modified foods)
In 1991 this new communication network went worldwide.
What is the internet or world wide web?
Levitt Town was one of the most well know mass produced housing developments in this area between the city and rural areas
What are the suburbs?
This space age defense system was Reagan's effort to protect the USA against nuclear missiles
(He named it after the popular movie series of the time)
What is the "Star Wars Defense System?"