Inventions
People
People #2
Places/Battles
Definitions
Miscellaneous
100
gas mask (worth 500!!!)
boNUs (700) what other invention is he famous for?
Garrett A. Morgan; 3 color stoplight/stoplight
100
one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
100
America's most famous evangelist during the 19th century
Dwight L. Moody
100
previously named Russian America
Alaska
200
electric lightbulb
Thomas Edison
200
16th president of the U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
200
shot President Lincoln
John Wilkes Boothe
200
territory that became our 50th state
Hawaii
200
a person who comes into a new country to live
immigrant
300
inventor of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
300
organized America's oil industry
BonUS: (300) what other notable distinction did this man have?
John D. Rockefeller; world's first billionaire
300
invented the telegraph
Samuel Morse
300
southern states that left the Union to form their own nation
Confederate States of America
300
people who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery
abolitionists
300
Lincoln's announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
400
telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
400
invented the airplane
BonUS (400 each name) what were their first names?
the Wright brothers; Wilbur and Orville
400
president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
400
one of the greatest land rushes was in what is now this state
Oklahoma
400
system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph
Morse code
400
Homestead Act
gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the West
500
mechanical reaper
bONuS (400) what plant was this usually used for?
Cyrus McCormock; wheat
500
brought the steel industry to America
Andrew Carnegie
500
founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
500
where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
500
sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes
reservations
500
battle where the turning point of the Civil War occurred
Gettysburg
600
Model T.
bOnuS (600) this person also wrote a book about what group of people?
Henry Ford; Jews
600
founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
600
leader of the Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
600
capitol of the Confederate states
Richmond, Virginia
600
system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid-1800's to help slaves flee to freedom
Underground Railroad
600
"remember the Maine" was a slogan during this war
bONuS: What was this war fought over?
Spanish American War; freedom of Cuba
700
steamboat
Robert Fulton
700
developed the assembly line method of production
Henry Ford
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700
Union general whose "march to the sea" hastened the end of the war
BonUS boNUS (700) what state did this primarily take place in?
William T. Sherman; Georgia
700
place (fort) where the first battle of the Civil War began in 1861
Fort Sumter
700
a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument
compromise
700
The Union's ironclad ship
bONuS: (600) What was the Confederacy's ironclad called?
Monitor; Merrimack
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800
liquid-fuel rocket
Robert Goddard
800
general who became commander of all Union armies in 1864
Ulysses S. Grant
800
his lab was known as "God's Little Workshop"
George Washington Carver
800
battle that cut the South in two and gave control of the Mississippi to the Union
Vicksburg
