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Robert Goddard
Who made the first successful liquid-fueled rocket?
Henry Ford
Who made the Model T?
Orville Wright
Who made the first successful airplane?
Garret Morgan
Who invented a traffic signal with colored lights?
Alexander G Bell
Who invented the telephone?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the phonograph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the telegraph?
Robert Fulton
Who invented the first successful Steamboat?
Cyrus McCormick
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Jan Matzeliger
Who invented a shoe-lasting machine?
Booker T Washington
Who was the man who founded and build Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
George Washington Carver
Who was born a slave, but became a famous scientist who worked with plants?
Charles Finney
Who was a lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers?
Billy Sunday
Who was a converted baseball player who received nationwide attention for my fiery preaching?
Dwight L Moody
Who was a shoe salesman who became America's most famous evangelist and founder of a famous Bible Institute?
Adoniram Judson
Who was the "Father of American Missions" who spent many years preaching to the people of Burma?
Andrew Carnegie
Who made millions of dollars in the steel industry in America?
Sir Henry Bessemer
Who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel?
John D Rockefeller
Who organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history?
Central
The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific company and the ___________ Pacific company.
Utah
The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory point ________.
Homestead Act
This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years.
west
This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800.
Morse
The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was call ____ code?
Pony express
The ____________ was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860.
It helped to settle the west. The East was brought closer to the west
What two changes brought about by the transcontinental railroad?
It was built on an assembly line.
Why was the Model T so inexpensive?
Hartford
What is the capital of
People did not feel out of touch with each other, they could send messages instantly.
How did the telegraph bring the East and West closer together?
Dover
What is the capital of Delaware?
Augusta
What is the capital of Maine?
Boston
What is the capital of Massachusetts?
Concord
What is the capital of New Hampshire?
Trenton
What is the capital of New Jersey?
Albany
What is the capital of New York?
Harrisburg
What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
Providence
What is the capital of Rhode Island?
Montpelier
What is the capital of Vermont?
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