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What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
A period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s.
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Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
An inventor from New jersey with over 1,000 patents to his name. He sought a replacement for kerosene.
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What is the second Industrial revolution?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Who are mercenaries?
Professional soldiers who will fight for anyone who will pay them.
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Who is Barack Obama?
The current president
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What is the Bessemer process?
A way to manufacture steel quickly by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
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Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An inventor who solved the problem that telegraphs were very difficult to use.
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What is ratify?
To approve a law
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Who is Thomas Paine?
This person wrote The Crisis that helped to inspire American troops during winter at Valley Forge
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Who is Ronald Reagan?
This President was president in 1980-1988.
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What is The Boston Massacre
This was a deadly riot between colonists and British troops stationed in Boston
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Who is Henry Ford?
An inventor who developed the moving assembly line to reduce the high cost of building something by hand.
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What is Philadelphia
The Declaration was written in this city.
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What is The Treaty of Paris?
This Treaty officially ended the American Revolution.
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Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was president during the American Civil War
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What is to refuse to buy goods from a certain source
The definition of boycott
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Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
Inventors who altered transportation by using a small gas-powdered engine in their product.
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What is July 4th, 1776
The date the Declaration was officially ratified.
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Who is General Corwallis?
The name of the British General who surrendered at Yorktown.
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Who is William Henry Harrison?
This president served the shortest time in office (30 days)
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What is The Intolerable Acts
This Act united the colonies against Britain
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Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
An efficiency engineer who published a book called "Principals of Scientific Management" in which he invented a system treat workers like interchangeable parts.
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What is a traitor?
A person guilty of disloyalty to the government
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What is the French Revolution?
The American Revolution influenced this country's revolution.
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Who are: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy?
The four presidents to be assassinated (killed while in office)
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