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North Carolina
100
Name the person who started textile factories.
Who is John Odell
100
Name the invention that was a very popular recreational tool of the 1890's
What is the Bicycle
100
FILL IN THE BLANK The repair of_________during Reconstruction improved the state’s transportation system and its community.
What is Railroads
100
Name where the Agricultural Revolution began.
Where is Britain
100
Name the University that was not traditionally an African American school.
What is North Carolina State
200
Name the family who built the Biltmore Estate in Asheville.
Who is The Vanderbilt Family
200
Name the type of tobacco that became very popular in the 1880's.
What is cigarettes
200
Name a popular form of transportation in the late 1800s.
What is Railroads
200
Name the largest agricultural state in the 1800s.
What is North Carolina
200
Name the city got its name from its unique location on the North Carolina Railroad.
What is High Point
300
Name the leader of the Farmer's Alliance
Who is Leonidas Polk
300
Name the steam engine that James Watt improved with his Watt steam engine.
What is the Newcomen Steam Engine
300
Name the system of transportation that improved during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Roads
300
Name the period of increased crop productivity.
What is the Industrial Revolution
300
Name the city where a bloody race riot occurred.
What is Wilmington
400
Name the inventor who invented the first practical telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
400
Name the company I.M. Singer founded.
What is the Singer Sewing Machine Company
400
Name a form of water transportation in the 1800s.
What is steamboats
400
The system of growing a different crop in a field each year.
What is a crop rotation
400
Name the city that became a key manufacturer of cotton/textiles.
What is Concord, NC
500
Name the inventor who invented the steam locomotive.
Who is Richard Threvithick
500
Name the invention Samuel F.B. Morse contributed to.
What is the Single Wire Telegraph System
500
Name the three main forms of transportation in the 1800s.
What is railroads, waterways, and roads
500
A fenced-in field created by wealthy land owners.
What is an enclosure
500
Name three key industries in NC in the late 1800s.
What is Textiles, Tobacco, and Furniture.