The Changing Nation

What did the Wright Brothers invent?

• peanut butter and crop rotation

• telephone

• light bulb

• first airplane

What did Thomas Edison invent?

• Peanut butter and crop rotation

• light bulb

• telephone

• first airplane

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• first airplane

• telephone

• peanut butter and crop rotation

• light bulb

What did George Washington Carver invent?

• first airplane

• telephone

• light bulb

• peanut butter and crop rotation

Which of the following was one of the most famous cattle trails?

• Goodnight Loving Trail

• Northern Trail

• Chisholm Trail

Why did cattle ranchers want to take their cattle to northern and eastern states?

• They received more money for them from northern and eastern states

• They couldn't sell them in Texas

• People in the north and east would die without them

Which continent did most immigrants come from at the turn of the century?

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• South America

What caused the beginning of the Spanish-American War?

• Spain made us wait longer to build the Panama Canal

• The sinking of the Maine

• Spain would not let us buy Cuba

Immigrants helped build a new way to travel during this time period. What was it called?

• Cars

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Airplanes

Who was the president during the Spanish-American War?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William McKinley

• William Taft