What is this machine?

1.

2. Who is this man?

Hints: Swedish—combined chalk-like sedimentary rock with a mystery ingredient

3. How about this guy?

Hint: Was at one time worth US$1,400,000,000—4% of U.S. national wealth at the time)

Gave away $350,695,653 before he died.

4. What does this graph depict?

5. Which war went by the following names?

The War to End All Wars
The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy
The War of the Nations

6.

What were these men preparing?

Hint: a kind of weapon

7. Where would you find the following?

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

8. What is this?

Hint: in New York on an island.

9. What is the following an example of?

Name of Passenger		Residence		Arrived		Age on Arrival	Passenger Record	Ship Manifest	Ship Image
1.	Otto Roth				1895	20	View	View	View
2.	Otto Roth				1908	30	View	View	View
3.	Otto Roth				1906	32	View	View	View
4.	Otto Roth				1923	37	View	View	View
5.	Otto Roth				1911	38	View	View	View
6.	Otto Roth		Brooklyn, U.S.A.		1918	37	View	View	View
7.	Otto Roth		Brooklyn, U.S.A.		1921	41	View	View	View
8.	Otto Roth		Chicago, Illinois		1924	45	View	View	View
9.	Otto Roth		Elmshorn		1903	16	View	View	View
10.	Otto Roth		Idar, Germany		1914	29	View	View	View
11.	Otto Roth		Mondfeld, Germany		1909	24	View	View	View
12.	Otto Roth		Olsnik		1905	31	View	View	View
13.	Otto Roth		Schonebeck, Germany		1922	45	View	View	View
14.	Otto Roth		Switzer, Dnrish		1909	28	View	View	View
15.	Otto Roth		Switzerland		1910	29	View	View	View
16.	Otto Roth		Uster, Switzerland		1912	32	View	View	View
17.	Otto A. Roth		Chicago, Ill.		1922	43	View	View	View
18.	Otto A. Roth		Chicago, Ill.		1924	45	View	View	View

10. Whom does the following describe?

In October 1913, this 71 year old man departed Washington on a tour to revisit his old Civil War battlefields. By December, he had proceeded on through Louisiana and Texas, crossing by way of El Paso into Mexico, which was then in the throes of revolution. In Ciudad Juárez, he joined the army of Pancho Villa as an observer, in which role he participated in the battle of Tierra Blanca. He is known to have accompanied Villa's army as far as the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua. After a last letter to a close friend, sent from that city on December 26, 1913, he vanished without a trace, becoming one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history. Subsequent investigations to ascertain his fate were fruitless; despite many decades of speculation, his disappearance remains a mystery, and his (unconfirmed) date of death is generally listed as "1914?".

In one of his last letters, he wrote:

"Good-by — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia".

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Ambrose Bierce

C. William McKinley

D. Teddy Roosevelt

11. Girls born before 1860 spent their childhood and adolescence learning what skill?

12. After the introduction of the cotton gin, how many times faster could cotton be processed?

10 times as fast

20 times as fast

50 times as fast

13. Shortly before the turn of the century (1900), it took about six weeks to get a message from Europe to America. Thanks to advances in technology, how long did this process take shortly after the turn of the century?

14. Who invented the telephone? ________________

15. Who invented the light bulb, the record player, and the movie camera? __________________

16. How about the airplane? ____________________________

17. Around the turn of the century (1900), the population of the United States was about 76 million. How many of these were immigrants (had not been born in the United States)?

A. 30 million

B. 10 million

C. 5 million

18. According to Godey's Lady's Book, before this invention, it took about 14 hours to make a man's dress shirt and at least 10 hours for a simple dress.

With this invention, those hours dropped to one and a quarter hours for the shirt and one hour for the simple dress.

What was the invention?

19. Around the turn of the century (1900), on average about how far from a person’s birthplace would a person likely go in a lifetime?

100

50

400

20. Around the turn of the century (1900), on average about far from a person’s birthplace would a person die?

100

50

400

21. Around the turn of the century (1900), what was the average lifespan for a woman?

Today?_________________

22. Around the turn of the century (1900), what was the average lifespan for a man?

Today? ________________________

23. According to recent projections, by how many years will the average lifespan increase by the year 2050?

________________________________________

A Historical Look at U.S. Immigration Policy

Girls born before 1860 spent their childhood and adolescence learning to sew a fine seam. Once the machine was available workmanship steadily declined.