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Clara Barton
Clara Barton
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Edison
100

Barton was called 'the angel of...' this setting

What is '...the battlefield'?

100

It was the outbreak of this war that Barton's nursing skills came to the forefront

What is the Civil War?

100

Though a country boy, Jackson was able to get into this prestigious military school

What is West Point?

100

Edison's name is remembered for his feats in this area

What is invention?

200
When she had no outlet for her superabundant energy, Barton struggled with this

What is fear/shyness/self-consciousness?

200

It was the lack of care for injured soldiers that pressed Barton to take this step, an unprecedented one for a woman

What is travel to the battlefront?

200

Later Jackson taught this, among other things, at the Virginia Military Institute

What is artillery?

200

As a child, Edison had a voracious appetite for these

What are books?

300

Barton gained her first experience in nursing when  caring for her brother at this tender age

What is 11 years old?

300

After the war, Barton took up this cause in service to President Lincoln and continued it after his death

What is answering letters and investigating 'missing' soldiers?

300

Though Jackson was respected, he had a reputation as a man of this sort

What is eccentric?

300

Edison was an opportunist, such as his seizing the moment during the Civil War to sell these

What are newspapers?

400

Barton's success as a teacher was displayed in the one-year growth of a student body she oversaw, from six to this hefty sum!

What is 600?

400

Later Barton brought the banner of this international organization to the US

What is the Red Cross?

400
Jackson was known to be rigorous in this aspect of his character

What is truthful?

400

Edison's study of telegraph led early on to an interesting experiment involving two of these

What are cats?

500

After retiring from teaching, Barton worked in the office of this Commissioner

What is the Commissioner of Patents?

500

Barton challenged the notion that the Red Cross was not needed as there was no war by arguing its work should be extended in this way

What is to 'public calamities' or natural disasters?

500

Jackson earned his nickname 'Stonewall' by his courageous stand in this battle of the Civil War

What is the First Battle of Bull Run?

500
Edison 'kept the path to the patent office red hot with his footsteps'! These are some of his other inventions

What are telegraphy from a moving train, the electric railroad, and the incandescent lamp?