Cattle was brought from Texas to Kansas, and then shipped on railroad to the East.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
100
These people now found work as cowboys.
What is African American men?
100
This person invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
Where did MOST European immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1800s work?
What is factories in the North?
100
A person who organizes other productive resources into a business to produce goods and services to make a profit is called a __________________________
What is an entrepreneur?
200
Was once a Spanish colony.
What is Cuba?
200
Experienced discrimination in the work place after coming to the United States
What is immigrants?
200
Taught new methods of farming; invented many uses for the peanut
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
Why did so many immigrants come to the United States in the 19th century?
What is the rapid growth of industry?
200
What was the transcontinental railroad?
What is the railroad that reached across the entire United States?
300
Passageway through Central America that linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The Indians defeated him at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What is General George Custer?
300
This is what Thomas Edison invented.
What is the lightbulb?
300
President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the building of the Panama Canal. What was the MOST important reason to build the canal?
What is to shorten the travel time between the eastern and western United States by ship?
300
Why was there such a demand for cattle in the East?
What is the Civil War had diminished its resources - either by soldiers eating them or killing them?
400
The cattle trail from Texas to Nebraska and then on to the Northern Plains.
What is Great Western Cattle Trail?
400
Person who organizes other productive resources into a business to produce goods and services into a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
Invented the first working airplane?
Who are the Wright Brothers?
400
Why is the Spanish-American War considered a "turning point" in American history?
What is the U.S. gained new territory and became a world power.
400
What was a result of the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What is General George Custer was defeated by the Native Americans and the Native Americans still lost their sacred land, the Black Hills.
500
The Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight here
(City and State)
What is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
500
This president handled Native Americans by dealing with hostile groups and protecting peaceful groups from being attacked.
What is President Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This inventor worked with electricty and created the first power company that is still in existance today.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
How did President Ulysses S. Grant handle Native Americans?
What is dealt with the hostile groups and protected the peaceful ones?
500
Why did Texas cattle farmers send their cattle all the way out east and not just keep them in Texas?
What is there was a large demand for cattle and the east offered a good price incentive for them to ship the cattle?