SS Review 23

Black Cowboys of Texas 

• Cattle trails allowed former slaves the opportunity to make money while providing meat to the busy cities along the East coast.
• Light bulbs powered by electricity improved the ability to work, read and even play after dark.
• The Panama Canal improved the speed of shipping supplies and improved business with other countries.
• The telephone improved the ability to communicate. It was much more user friendly then the telegraph and Morse Code.

Wright Brothers

• Cars changed American life forever by improving the speed of transportation.
• Airplanes eventually became used in national defense, improved transportation and helped businesses move supplies quickly.
• Farmers in Georgia and Alabama were able to make much more money because many companies now wanted peanuts and sweet potatoes to make hundreds of new products.
• After his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States sent a much larger military force out west to subduethe Indians onto reservations for good.

Theodore Roosevelt 

• After his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States sent a much larger military force out west to subduethe Indians onto reservations for good.
• The Panama Canal improved the speed of shipping supplies and improved business with other countries.
• Farmers in Georgia and Alabama were able to make much more money because many companies now wanted peanuts and sweet potatoes to make hundreds of new products.
• Light bulbs powered by electricity improved the ability to work, read and even play after dark.

George Washington Carver 

• Farmers in Georgia and Alabama were able to make much more money because many companies now wanted peanuts and sweet potatoes to make hundreds of new products.
• After his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States sent a much larger military force out west to subduethe Indians onto reservations for good.
• Airplanes eventually became used in national defense, improved transportation and helped businesses move supplies quickly.
• Cars changed American life forever by improving the speed of transportation.

Alexander Graham Bell

• The telephone improved the ability to communicate. It was much more user friendly then the telegraph and Morse Code.
• After his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States sent a much larger military force out west to subduethe Indians onto reservations for good.
• Farmers in Georgia and Alabama were able to make much more money because many companies now wanted peanuts and sweet potatoes to make hundreds of new products.
• Cattle trails allowed former slaves the opportunity to make money while providing meat to the busy cities along the East coast.

Thomas Edison

• Lightbulbs powered by electricity improved the ability to work, read and even play after dark.
• The Panama Canal improved the speed of shipping supplies and improved business with other countries.
• The telephone improved the ability to communicate. It was much more user friendly then the telegraph and Morse Code.
• Cattle trails allowed former slaves the opportunity to make money while providing meat to the busy cities along the East coast

Henry Ford 

• After his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States sent a much larger military force out west to subduethe Indians onto reservations for good.
• Farmers in Georgia and Alabama were able to make much more money because many companies now wanted peanuts and sweet potatoes to make hundreds of new products.
• Cars changed American life forever by improving the speed of transportation.
• Airplanes eventually became used in national defense, improved transportation and helped businesses move supplies quickly.

Why was the Chisholm Trail important to America?

• It was a great way to travel America before there were any roads.
• The Chisholm Trail was another name for the railroad and that’s how people got around.
• Cattle were herded on the Chisholm Trail up to the railroad, so they could be sold for a good profit back east.
• Cows were taken down to Mexico on the Chisholm trail and improved America’s relationship with Mexico.

How did price incentives motivate cowboys to drive their cattle all the way up to Kansas?

• Less cattle were raised on the east coast, so if they could get the cattle to east coast by railroad, they could sell them for more money.
• More cattle were raised on the east coast, so if they could get the cattle to the east coast by railroad they could sell them for more money.
• The cows were worth more money if they got lots of exercise so they drove them up to Kansas for exercise.
• Kansas is on the east coast, and they didn’t have as many cows, so the demand was higher making them worth more there.

Which of the following was NOT one of the main reasons people immigrated to the United States?

• To get their own land
• To get religious freedom
• To have the opportunity to make more money
• To help keep their family together