Inventions & Inventors
This inventor created the cotton gin.
👉 Who is Eli Whitney?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land.
👉 What is the Homestead Act?
The first battle of the Civil War happened here.
👉 What is Fort Sumter?
This man controlled much of the oil industry.
👉 Who is John D. Rockefeller?
“Remember the Maine” was linked to this war.
👉 What is the Spanish-American War?
People who wanted to end slavery.
👉 What are abolitionists?
He invented the telegraph system.
👉 Who is Samuel Morse?
Land set aside for Native Americans is called this.
👉 What are reservations?
This document freed enslaved people in rebellious states.
👉 What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He dominated the steel industry.
👉 Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The Rough Riders were led by this future president.
👉 Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The secret network that helped enslaved people escape.
👉 What is the Underground Railroad?
These brothers built the first successful airplane.
👉 Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
A major land rush happened in this state.
👉 What is Oklahoma?
The major turning point battle of the war.
👉 What is Gettysburg?
The dot-and-dash telegraph system is called this.
👉 What is Morse Code?
The 50th state admitted to the U.S.
👉 What is Hawaii?
When both sides give up something to reach agreement.
👉 What is a compromise?
He made the Model T affordable using the assembly line.
👉 Who is Henry Ford?
Someone who moves to another country to live.
👉 What is an immigrant?
This Union general accepted the Confederate surrender.
👉 Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This inventor created the telephone.
👉 Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The Confederate capital was located here.
👉 What is Richmond, Virginia?
The southern states formed this new nation.
👉 What is the Confederate States of America?
DAILY DOUBLE
This inventor improved the electric light and held over 1,000 patents.
👉 Who is Thomas Edison?
Russian America later became this state.
👉 What is Alaska?
This Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
👉 Who is Robert E. Lee?
This scientist developed the liquid-fueled rocket.
👉 Who is Robert Goddard?
The Union gained control of this river after the Battle of Vicksburg.
👉 What is the Mississippi River?
Clara Barton founded this organization.
👉 What is the American Red Cross?
FINAL JEOPARDY:
Name the two major issues that the Civil War settled.
👉 Answer:
States cannot leave the Union.
Slavery was ended in the United States.