Cattle Trails
Spanish American War
Immigration
Famous Inventors
Vocabulary
100

This trail was the primary trail used during the cattle drive era.

What is Chisholm Trail?

100

He was the US president at the time of the Spanish American War

Who is William McKinley?

100

What were 2 reasons immigrants came to America at the turn of the century?

What is: a better life, to practice choice of religion, to escape famine, to escape persecution, for jobs?

100

This inventor designed the first light bulb.

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

This word means a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. 

What is immigrant?

200

These former enslaved were farm hands who escaped to the Great Plains for a better life.

What are Black Cowboys?

200

He is credited with building the Panama Canal

Who is Theodore Roosevelt

200

This immigration station was used to process European immigrants.

What is Ellis Island?

200

This inventor created over 300 products from sweet potatoes and peanuts.

Who is George Washington Carver?

200

This word means that the quantity of goods that buyers will take at a much higher price. 

What is demand.

300

Beef was in high demand in the _____ and ______ during the cattle trail era.

What is North and East?

300

Americans were mislead by this type of new reporting leading up to the Spanish American War.

What is yellow journalism

300

This immigration station was used to process Asian immigrants.

What is Angel Island?

300

These inventors innovated the start of the aviation and space industries.

Who are The Wright Brothers?

300

This word is another name for cows.

What is cattle?

400

This Black Cowboy was famous for his rodeo skills.

Who is Bill Pickett?

400

This battleship mysterious exploded off the shore of Cuba.

USS Maine.

400

European immigrants came from these European countries.

multiple answers

400

George Washington Carver was THIS type of scientist.

What is a Botanist?

400

This word means the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. 

What is agriculture?

500

This Act encouraged settlers to migrate to the Great Plains in exchange for free land.

What is the Homestead Act?

500

This canal is very important in the global trading industry by reducing the travel time and cost of goods.

What is the Panama Canal

500

European immigrants settled in these big cities for jobs and housing.

multiple answers.

500

This inventor had a special relationship with the Deaf community.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

500

This term means the system of switching out different crops to replenish the nutrients of the soil.

What is crop rotation?