Inventions
Who invented the camera in NYS?
Who is George Eastman?
The length of the Erie Canal.
What is 363 miles. (The original canal)
A gift from this country.
What is France?
The Civil War was about this.
What is abolishing (ending) slavery.
The capital of New York State
What is Albany?
Which camera business was founded and built in Rochester NY?
What is Kodak?
The Date and Location the Erie Canal started being built.
What is July 4th 1817 and Rome NY?
The reason the statue is green.
What is copper oxidizing?
He was the president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The state flower
What is a rose?
The light bulb was created by him.
Who is Thomas Edison?
When the Erie Canal was finished and the amount of years it took.
What is 1825 and what is 8 years?
The Statue of Liberty is located here.
The first women who lead an armed military raid and was also a nurse and spy during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman? (the raid rescued more then 700 slaves)
The ocean next to NYS is this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Which company introduced the photocopier?
Who is Xerox?
Name both ends of the Erie Canal.
What is Lake Erie(Buffalo) and Hudson River(ALBANY)?
The meaning of the Statue of Liberty.
What is the torch symbolizing enlightenment? The torch leads the way to freedom showing people a path to Liberty.
The purpose of the Underground Railroad. Was it a real railroad?
No it was not a real railroad but it was a network of routes, safe houses and resources that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.
The finger lakes were created by this.
What are glaciers that melted?
A legal document that gives an inventor or company the exclusive right to make, use or sell their invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
Main purpose of the canal.
What is faster transportation of goods?
Written on the book that the Statue of Liberty is holding.
What is JULY IV MDCCLXXVI
July 4th, 1776
What are 5 facts about Fredrick Douglass?
1)Born a slave
2) escaped to New England-friends bought his freedom
3)Lived in Rochester, NY
4)A powerful writer and speaker for the movement.
5) Friend to Abraham Lincoln
The number of Great Lakes there are. Two next to NYS.
What is 5? What is Ontario and Erie?