People
Invented the first motorized plane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
What is Yellow Journalism?
A cattle trail named after a Cherokee Indian tracker named Jessee Chisolm
What is the Chisolm trail?
All people born in the United States are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Invented the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
The belief that the United States could and would use force if necessary
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
A conflict between Cuba and Spain; the United States got involved in April 1898
What is the Spanish-Ameican War?
abolition of slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Invented the electric light bulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
yellow fever, malaria, death
What were problems that builders experienced while building the Panama Canal?
A group of former slaves who worked on the cattle trails.
Who were the Black Cowboys of Texas?
The right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
President during the Spanish-American War
Who was William McKinley?
came up with numerous ways to use peanuts products
Who was George Washington Carver?
Puerto Rico
What was a place acquired after the Spanish-American War?
reintegration of southern states
What was reconstrcution?
President from 1901- 1909; helped finish the building of the Panama Canal
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Lasted about 20 years
What are cattle trails?
Religious freedom, better opportunities, to get away from war
What were reasons that people immigrated to the United States?