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40 Cards in this Set
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soybeans
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one of the most profitable crops a farmer can grow
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reservations
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pieces of land set aside by the US for the Indians
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transcontinental
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crossing the continent; from one coast to the other
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stampede
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a sudden rush of animals or people
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Booker T. Washington
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great educator who built Tuskegee Institute
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George Washington Carber
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scientist whose work with plants helped Southern farmers; taught at Tuskegee Institute for many years
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American cowboys
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men whom ranchers hired to take care of their cattle
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Cyrus McCormick
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inventor of the first successful mechanical reaper
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Union Pacific Company and Central Pacific Company
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the two railroad companies that built the transcontinental railroad
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Homestead Act
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law that promised 160 acres of free land to settlers in the west who would cultivate or homestead the land for five years.
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Oklahoma Land Rush
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time in 1889 when the government opened Oklahoma for settlement; settlers raced to find land they could call their own
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Promontory Point, Utah
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place where the Union Pacific Co. and the Central Pacific Co. met and completed the transcontinental railroad
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immigrant
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person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country
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industry
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the manufacturing business; a kind of work that uses factories to make things
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pony express
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mail service which used fast horses to carry the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California
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telegraph
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machine that sends messeges over long distances through wire by electricity
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Morse code
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system of short and long dots and dashes to be clicked over telegraph wires
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Charles Finney
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brilliant lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers
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Dwight L. Moody
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America's most famous evangelist at the end of the 1800s; founder of Moody Bible Institute
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Billy Sunday
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baseball star who became a famous evangelist
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Adoniram Juidson
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missionary who served for many years in Burma and became know as the Father of American Missions
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George Liele
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America's first missionary to a foreign land; probably the first ordained black preacher in America
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Andrew Carnegie
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man who built the steel industry in America
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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Englishman who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel
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John D. Rockefeller
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man who organized the oil industry in America
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Robert Fulton
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man who developed the first successful steamboat
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Clermont
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Robert Fulton's first successful steamboat
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Samuel Morse
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man who invented the telegraph
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Alexander Graham Bell
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teacher of deaf-mutes who invented the telephone
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Thomas A. Watson
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Alexander Graham Bell's assistant
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Thomas Alva Edison
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man who invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many other things
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Henry Ford
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man who developed the assembly line and used it to build the Model T, and inexpensive car that nearly every American family could afford
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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brothers who built and flew the first successful airplane
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Robert Goddard
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man who launched the first successful liquid-fuel rocket ever built
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Jan Ernst Matzeliger
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man who designed the first shoe-lasting machine
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Garrett A. Morgan
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man who invented the gas mask and the traffic signal with red, yellow, and green lights
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Menlo Park, New Jersey
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location of the laboratory where Thomas Edison did most of his experiments
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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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place where the Wright brothers made their first successful airplane flights
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The Model T was so inexpensive because...
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it was built on an assembly line.
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Two changes that the transcontinental railroad brought were...
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it helped settle the West, and the East was brought closer to the West.
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