Cattle Trails/Black Cowboys
Trails that ranchers used to move cattle from one location to another
What are cattle trails?
Brothers who made an impact on American travel by creating the first powered flight in an airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers?
President during the Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
Who was President when the Panama Canal was built?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What entry point did Asian immigrants use to enter the United States?
Angel Island
One of the most famous cattle trails used to drive cattle that went from Texas to Kansas
What is the Chisolm Trail?
The African American scientist who made an impact on agriculture and what was his invention?
Who is George Washington Carver and he invented crop rotation that helped farmers
The US was victorious over this country during the Spanish American War.
What is Spain?
What did builders earn in exchange for building the Panama Canal?
They earned wages or money to buy things they need
Why did Texas cattle ranchers use the cattle trails?
Ranchers used the cattle trails to get their cattle to the railroads where the cattle where then shipped east.
Inventor who impacted American communication and Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The country that Spain and America were involved in the Spanish War over and the location of the Spanish American War
What is Cuba?
The 2 oceans that the Panama Canal connects?
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Former African American slaves who moved out west to escape discrimination and work on cattle trails
What are Black Cowboys?
Inventor who impacted American life by inventing the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
The style of journalism that uses new stories to get people to react emotionally.
What is yellow journalism?
One reason why many people died while the Panama Canal was being built.
What is disease?
What entry point did Europeans use to enter the United States?
Ellis Island
Why did businesses want to build their factories in cities like Chicago?
access to waterways and railroads made shipping their products easier
Anything that makes producing something faster and easier.
What is technology?
After the Spanish American War, the United States gained what three territories?
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Phillippines?
Once the canal was built, the US could easily _________ with other countries.
What is trade?
Why did Chinese immigrants settle in the west?
Because of Opportunities to earn money by working for the railroad companies and goldmining