cattle trails
Black Cowboys
of Texas
Thomas Edison
Great Western
Cattle Trail
William McKinley
The Wright
Brothers
The Maine
George
Washington
Carver
drought
Panama Canal
Alexander
Graham Bell
Chisholm
patent
industrialization
philanthropist
Trail
price
long drive
telegraph
E pluribus
Great Plains
incentives
Unum
Kitty Hawk,
Homestead Act
famine
discrimination
tenements
NC
yellow
Transcontinental
mass
Spanish
Theodore
journalism
Railroad
production
American War
Roosevelt
Alexander Graham
Inventor of the telephone, teacher of the deaf, allowed
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Bell
people to communicate faster over distance and lead the
way to modern day technology such as the cell phone and
texting.
Black Cowboys of
Freedmen to move west following the Civil War to secure
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Texas
jobs on the long drives worked in Wild West Shows that
were entertainment to the settlers in the West.
cattle trails
Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Cattle trail were
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two important trails used to move cattle from southern
Texas north to the stockyards and railroads so that the
beef could be sold in the East where demand was high and
supply was low making the cost 10 times what it was in
Texas
Chisholm Trail
The first cattle trail, that began in the Red River
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Valley and ran to Abilene, Kansas.
discrimination
To judge or mistreat a person based on the color of
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their skin, beliefs, or outward appearance that might be
different from your own
drought
A long period of time with little to no rain
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E pluribus Unum
Out of many one---the motto of the United States that
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describes the United states, born out of the original 13
colonies.
George
Washington
Scientist, made a huge impact on agriculture with his
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Carver
theory of crop rotation, created more than 300 products
from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Great Plains
Large area of grasslands located between the United
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states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains
Great Western
The main route for cattle headed to northern stockyards
10
Cattle Trail
and railroad yards, began in western Texas and ended in
Nebraska
Homestead
Act
An offer from the federal government of the United
11
states giving people willing to move to the western
territories 160 acres if they would develop the land
sparked the great migration West.
famine
Lack of food in a specific region
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industrialization
Adopting industrial methods of manufacturing and
13
producing
Kitty Hawk, NC
Site of the Wright Brothers successful flight, chosen
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because its frequent winds and soft sandy surfaces were
suitable for their glider experiments, which they
conducted over a three-year period prior to making the
powered flights.
long
drive
The movement of the cattle from Texas to
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Kansas/Nebraska, the drive stretched over several months
mass production
the production or manufacture of goods in large
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quantities, especially by machinery and specialization
of labor, such as Henry Ford’s assembly line to build
cars and make them affordable.
Panama Canal
a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, linking the
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Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: extends from Colón on the
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patent
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philanthropist
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price incentives
Caribbean Sea southeast to Balboa on the Gulf of Panama;
built by the US (1904–14), after an unsuccessful
previous attempt (1880–89) by the French, length: 40
miles
A legal grant issued to an inventor, giving the inventor
the right to make profit off of his inventions
A person that has an altruistic concern for human
welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations
of money, property, or work to needy persons, or to
institutions of learning and hospitals.
A price incentive is something that motivates an
individual to purchase an item. Examples-buy one get
one free, 50% off, 20% off your entire purchase
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Spanish American
War
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telegraph
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tenements
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The Maine
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The Wright Brothers
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Thomas Edison
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Transcontinental
Railroad
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William McKinley
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yellow journalism
A war in 1898 between the US and Spain, which the US
started because it wanted Cuba to be independent from
Spain and because the US battleship Maine was
mysteriously destroyed by an explosion near Havana,
Cuba.
A system for transmitting messages from a distance
along a wire, especially one creating signals by making
and breaking an electrical connection.
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house,
especially in a poor section of a large city
The Maine is best known for her catastrophic loss in
Havana Harbor on the evening of 15 February 1898. Sent
to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt
against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning
and sank quickly, killing nearly three-quarters of her
crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking
remained unclear after a board of inquiry.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American mechanics and
inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a
heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an
airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, in 1903.
an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier,
explorer, and historian who served as the 26th
President of the United States. He was a leader of the
Republican Party (GOP) and founder of the Progressive
Party insurgency of 1912. During Spanish American War
he was the leader of the “Rough Riders”
United States inventor; inventions included the
phonograph and incandescent electric light and the
microphone and the Kinetoscope
A train route across the United States finished in
1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the
Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central
Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.
Served as the twenty-fifth president of the United
States, from 1897 until his death from an assassin's
bullet in 1901, McKinley waged the Spanish-American War
and at the end of it gained overseas territories for
the United States; including Hawaii.
the practice of seeking out sensational news for the
purpose of boosting a newspaper’s circulation, not
always tell the truth or adding facts to make the story
more interesting to the reader.
cattle trails
Black Cowboys
of Texas
Thomas Edison
Great Western
Cattle Trail
William McKinley
The Wright
Brothers
Chisholm
Trail
price
incentives
Kitty Hawk,
NC
yellow
journalism
patent
industrialization
long drive
telegraph
Homestead Act
famine
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3
4
5
6
7
8
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10
11
12
13
14
15
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The Maine
George
Washington
Carver
drought
E pluribus
Unum
discrimination
Panama Canal
Alexander
Graham Bell
philanthropist
Great Plains
tenements
Transcontinental
mass
Spanish
Theodore
Railroad
production
American War
Roosevelt
inventor of the telephone, teacher of the deaf,
allowed people to communicate faster over distance
and lead the way to modern day technology such as the
cell phone and texting.
Freedmen that moved west following the Civil War to
secure jobs on the long drives worked in Wild West
Shows that were entertainment to the settlers in the
West.
Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Cattle Trail
were two important trails used to move cattle from
southern Texas north to the stockyards and railroads
so that the beef could be sold in the East where
demand was high and supply was low making the cost 10
times what it was in Texas
first cattle trail, that began in the Red River
Valley and ran to Abilene, Kansas.
to judge or mistreat a person based on the color of
their skin, beliefs, or outward appearance that might
be different from your own
long period of time with little to no rain
Out of many one---the motto of the United States that
describes the United states, born out of the original
13 colonies.
scientist, made a huge impact on agriculture with his
theory of crop rotation, created more than 300
products from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
large area of grasslands located between the United
states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains
main route for cattle headed to northern stockyards
and railroad yards, began in western Texas and ended
in Nebraska
an offer from the federal government of the United
states giving people willing to move to the western
territories 160 acres if they would develop the land
sparked the great migration West.
lack of food in a specific region
adopting industrial methods of manufacturing and
producing
site of the Wright Brothers successful flight, chosen
because its frequent winds and soft sandy surfaces
were suitable for their glider experiments, which
they conducted over a three-year period prior to
making the powered flights.
movement of the cattle from Texas to Kansas/Nebraska,
the drive stretched over several months
production or manufacture of goods in large
quantities, especially by machinery and
specialization of labor, such as Henry Ford’s
assembly line to build cars and make them affordable.
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canal across the Isthmus of Panama, linking the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: extends from Colón on
the Caribbean Sea southeast to Balboa on the Gulf of
Panama; built by the US (1904–14), after an
unsuccessful previous attempt (1880–89) by the
French, length: 40 miles
legal grant issued to an inventor, giving the
inventor the right to make profit off of his
inventions
person that has an altruistic concern for human
welfare and advancement, usually manifested by
donations of money, property, or work to needy
persons, or to institutions of learning and
hospitals.
something that motivates an individual to purchase an
item. Examples-buy one get one free, 50% off, 20%
off your entire purchase
war in 1898 between the US and Spain, which the US
started because it wanted Cuba to be independent from
Spain and because the US battleship Maine was
mysteriously destroyed by an explosion near Havana,
Cuba.
system for transmitting messages from a distance
along a wire, especially one creating signals by
making and breaking an electrical connection.
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house,
especially in a poor section of a large city
best known for her catastrophic loss in Havana Harbor
on the evening of 15 February 1898. Sent to protect
U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain,
she exploded suddenly without warning and sank
quickly, killing nearly three-quarters of her crew.
The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained
unclear after a board of inquiry.
American mechanics and inventors of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who
achieved the first sustained flight of a heavierthan-air machine — what we today call an airplane.
Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,
in 1903.
American politician, author, naturalist, soldier,
explorer, and historian who served as the 26th
President of the United States. He was a leader of
the Republican Party (GOP) and founder of the
Progressive Party insurgency of 1912. During Spanish
American War he was the leader of the “Rough Riders”
United States inventor; inventions included the
phonograph and incandescent electric light and the
microphone and the Kinetoscope
train route across the United States finished in
1869. It was the project of two railroad companies:
the Union Pacific built from the east, and the
Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines
met in Utah.
twenty-fifth president of the United States, from
1897 until his death from an assassin's bullet in
1901, waged the Spanish-American War and at the end
of it gained overseas territories for the United
States; including Hawaii.
the practice of seeking out sensational news for the
purpose of boosting a newspaper’s circulation, not
always tell the truth or adding facts to make the
story more interesting to the reader.