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Inventors
Spanish-American War
Vocabulary 1
Cowboys & Cattle Trails
Vocabulary 2
100
They invented, designed, built, and flew the 1st motorized airplane.
What is the Wright Brothers?
100
He was President of the United States during the Spanish-American War and was assassinated during his 2nd term.
What is William McKinley?
100
A town or city that serves as a market place or shipping point for cattle.
What is a cow town?
100
One of the two well-know cattle trails used from 1866-1890.
What is the Great Western Cattle Trail? or What is the Chisholm Trail?
100
A light that uses electricity to produce illumination; invented by Thomas Alva Edison.
What is the electric light?
200
He invented many products that used peanuts, such as cosmetics, dye, paint, candy, peanut butter, and fuel.
What is George Washington Carver?
200
He became the youngest American president when McKinley was assassinated.
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
A person who comes up with an idea for something NEW.
What is an inventor?
200
His job was to take part in cattle drives where cattle were driven from Texas to railroad towns like Abilene and Dodge City, Kansas.
What is the cowboy?
200
Inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
He is known as the Wizard of Menlo Park.
What is Thomas Alva Edison?
300
This vital trade route and military route connected the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
People from other countries who move here.
What is an immigrant?
300
As many as 5,000 newly freed slaves who found work as cowboys after the Civil War.
What are "black cowboys?"
300
A large farm on which large herds of cattle, sheep, or horses are raised.
What is a ranch?
400
He is known for his work with deaf children and for inventing the telephone.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
The volunteer regiment of fighters during the Spanish-American War who was headed by Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Rough Riders?
400
The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.
What is communication?
400
These were started in the late 1800s because of the great demand for meat in northern and eastern parts of the United States.
What is cattle drives?
400
Place where two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, flew the first airplane in 1903.
What is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
500
This is a mobile school which George Washington Carver used to teach former slaves farming methods.
What is the Jesup Wagon?
500
This is Theodore Roosevelt's famous motto.
What is "Speak softly and carry a big stick?"
500
He was born as a slave and then became a scientist, botanist, teacher, and inventor; he is most well known for inventing peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
These two things caused many cowboys to lose their jobs.
What are expansion of the railroads and the invention of barbed wire fences?
500
Something such as a machine or process that has been created or made and did not exist before.
What is an invention?