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Who invented the first successful airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
100
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
100
Who was born a slave but became a famous scientist who worked with plants?
George Washington Carver
100
Who made millions of dollars in the steel industry in America?
Andrew Carnegie
100
This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm land for 5 years
The Homestead Act
200
Who invented the first successful liquid fueled rocket?
Robert Goddard
200
Who invented the first successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton
200
Who was a lawyer and became one of America's greatest revival preachers?
Charles Finney
200
Who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel?
Sir Henry Bessemer
200
This area was the only frontier that still hadn't been settled by the middle of the 1800s.
The Oklahoma Territory
300
Who built the Model T?
Henry Ford
300
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
300
Who was a converted baseball player who received nationwide attention for his fiery preaching?
Billy Sunday
300
Who organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history?
John D. Rockerfeller
300
The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called...?
Morse Code
400
Who invented the traffic signal with colored lights?
Garrett Morgan
400
Who invented a shoe-lasting machine?
Jan Matzeliger
400
Who was a shoe salesman and became America's most famous evangelist and founder of a famous Bible Institute?
Dwight L. Moody
400
The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific Company and what other company?
Central Pacific Company
400
What was the mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California that opened in 1860?
The Pony Express
500
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
500
Who founded and built the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
Booker T. Washington
500
Who was the "Father of American Missions" who spent many years preaching to the people of Burma?
Adoniram Judson
500
The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory Point... where? (what state?)
Utah
500
What 2 changes were brought about by using the transcontinental railroad?
1. It helped settle the west. 2. The East was brought closer to the west.