Black Cowboys

African American

men, freed slaves;

that became

cowboys and drove

cattle

Cattle Trails

Trails cowboys

followed while

driving/pushing

cattle to a new

location; the path

they followed

Chisholm Trail

Jesse Chisholm – Found the Chisholm

Trail

Started in Texas and

ran all the way to

Abilene, KS

Great Western Trail

Started in southern

Texas and ran to

Dodge City, KS and

Ogallala, NE

Emigrated

To leave one

country or region to

settle in another;

migrate

Immigrants

A person who

migrates to another

country; usually

permanently

Ghettos

An overly populated,

poor section of a city;

usually populated by

an ethnic group due

to social/economic

hardships

Tenements

Crowded, poorly

built apartment

houses

The Wright Brothers

Invented the first

successful airplane

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented the

telephone

George Washington Carver

Invented crop

rotation

Thomas Edison

Invented the

electric light bulb

William McKinley

25th president

He was president

during the Spanish-

American War

Spanish American War

Marked by the

explosion of the

Main (a Navy ship)

in the port of

Havana, Cuba

Theodore Roosevelt

Former Rough Rider

26th president

Made it possible to build

the Panama Canal

Worked for progressive

reform and conservation

Panama Canal

Provided an

important shortcut

for trading between

the Atlantic and

Pacific Oceans

Turn of the Century

19th century to the

20th century; 1899-

1900