Cattle Trails
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America on the Global Stage
100
What caused the decline of the Great Western Cattle Trail?
What is barbed wire?
100
Thomas Edison is known for what?
What is inventing the electric light bulb?
What is making lighting in homes less dangerous?
100
What primary factor attracted millions of European immigrants to the United States during the late nineteenth century?
What are job opportunities?
What is to escape poverty?
100
Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the United States increased its reach in the Pacific Ocean by doing what?
What is building the Panama Canal?
200
What development reduced the importance of cattle trails for ranchers in the United States?
What is the construction of more railroads?
200
How did Alexander Graham Bell help improve American life?
What is he improved long-distance communication?
200
Which letter shows where Chinese immigrants mostly settled in the Early 20th Century?
Which letter shows where European immigrants mostly settled?
What is the Chinese settling near W?
What is the Europeans settling near Y?
200
Why did the United States take over construction of the Panama Canal?
What is to improve trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Coast?
300
The growth of the Chisholm Trail in the nineteenth century helped what to develop?
What is the beef industry in northern cities?
300
Who benefited the most from the work of George Washington Carver?
Who are farmers?
300
How did immigrants contribute to economic growth in the United States?
What is providing labor for industry in cities in the Northeast?
300
How did President William McKinley expand America's role in the world?
What is acquiring territory through military conflict?
400
Why were trails such as the Chisholm Trail important to the development of the United States in the nineteenth century?
What are The trails helped ranchers drive their cattle to railroad towns so the cattle could be shipped all over the country.
400
How did Alexander Graham Bell's most famous invention improve on the telegraph?
What is allowing voices and sounds to be heard over long distances?
400
During the nineteenth century, immigrants played an important role in the United States’ economic development by providing the necessary labor for what?
What is the growth of manufacturing(industry/factories) in the Northeast.
400
How did building the Panama Canal help President Theodore Roosevelt increase the global influence of the United States?
What is allowing the Navy to travel quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
500
What helped the Black Cowboys of Texas find work in the late 1800s?
The cattle raised by ranchers in Texas needed workers to drive their cattle and black cowboys were available for labor.
500
How did George Washington Carver's research help farmers?
What is helping them grow different types of crops?
What is maintaining healthy soil?
500
What most attracted Chinese immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century?
What is gold mining and railroad construction?
500
Why did the United States go to war with Spain during the presidency of William McKinley?
What is to establish dominance over the Western Hemisphere?
What is to establish dominance over the world?
What is to gain control in Latin America?