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Turn of the Century
US History Turn of the Century Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Contributed to American life by completing the first powered flight | The Wright Brothers |
Came up with numerous ways to use peanut products | George Washington Carver |
Invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
Invented the filament for the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison |
President during the Spanish-American War | William McKinley |
A style of journalism that exaggerates stories to attract readers ("Remember the Maine!") | Yellow Journalism |
A cattle trail named after a Cherokee Indian tracker named Jesse Chisholm | Chisholm Trail |
A group of former slaves who worked on the cattle trails | Black Cowboys of Texas |
A waterway that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans | The Panama Canal |
A conflict between Cuba and Spain; the United States got involved in 1898 | Spanish-American War |
President from 1901-1909; helped finish the building of the Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt |