INVENTORS
Inventor of the revolver
Who is Samuel Colt?
Author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and other books that portrayed real life in the segregated South.
Who is Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)?
These two explorers were sent to find a route across the country to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
The belief that the United States is destined to continue to expand.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Tesla demonstrated this invention by making a boat drive around a pond and pretending it was responding to people's shouted commands.
What is remote control?
Inventor of the steel plow?
Who is John Deere?
Inventor of the detective story, and a famous American writer of horror and suspense.
She was prosecuted and found guilty of voting, but refused to pay the fine.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This type of sailing vessel held speed records from the mid 1800s to the late 1900s.
What is a Clipper Ship?
Tesla invented this now-common piece of medical equipment, but it was patented by Roentgen.
What is an X-Ray machine?
Inventor of a process for making modern, vulcanized rubber.
Who is Charles Goodyear?
Inventor of a written language for the Cherokee people.
Who is Sequoya?
This abolitionist is sometimes called America's first domestic terrorist for his efforts to free the slaves.
Who is John Brown?
This name was applied to senators who were elected because they promised to start a war with Britain in the 1800s.
Who are the War Hawks?
What is the radio?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
America's most famous poet, whose book "Leaves of Grass" redefined American poetry.
Who is Walt Whitman?
This famous lawman hunted criminals in Tombstone, Arizona, and led the shootout at the OK Corral.
Who is Wyatt Earp?
The name given to secret routes and people who helped slaves escape to northern states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Tesla invented this device to send energy waves through the planet, but accidentally caused this structure near his lab to jump and buckle.
A bridge.
Inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Author of "Science and Health" and the founder of the religion known as Christian Science, or Church of Christ, Scientist.
Who is Mary Baker Eddy?
This scientist discovered that light, radio, ultraviolet, infrared, and other waves all belonged to the same spectrum (the electromagnetic spectrum).
Who is Hertz?
The purchase of land from France that nearly doubled the size of the United States in 1801.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This type of electric motor, invented by Tesla, now powers electric cars and is found in thousands of common devices.
What is an induction motor?