American Life at the Turn of the Century

An Illinois livestock dealer and the first person to exploit the expanding railroads to move cattle to distant markets

• Jesse Chisholm

• Black Beaver

• Nat Love

• Joseph G. McCoy

An American agricultural scientist and inventor promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington Carver

• Jesse Chisholm

• Nat Love

All of these were reasons for immigration in the early 19^th Century except for

• Slavery

• A better life

• Economic prosperity

• Job opportunity

Which of these were reasons for the decline in the use of the Chisholm Trail

• The rise of the use of the Western Trail

• Texas fever quarantines in Kansas and Missouri

• Construction of new rail lines in Texas

• All of the above

The place where cattle are bought and sold

• Cattle Market

• Cattle Trail

• Chuck Wagon

• Boomtown

Which of these were main reasons for expansion into the West during the 19^th Century

• Land ownership

• Mining

• Cattle driving

• Farming

• All of the above

This man was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to head the Panama Canal Project

• John Findley Wallace

• William Mckinley

• George Washington Carver

• Jesse Chisholm

Which of these are trails were used to drive cattle in the 19^th Century?

• The Blazing Trail

• Chisholm Trail

• The Blazing Trail

• Both and a and b

• None of the above

A waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The rights to this canal were taken over by America from France in 1904.

• Spanish-American War

• Gold Standard Act

• Great Western Cattle Trail

• Panama Canal

An armed conflict between the U.S. and Spain in 1898

• Spanish-American War

• Chisholm Trail

• Gold Standard Act

• Great Western Cattle Trail