Pioneering Minds: Black Inventors
Explore the lives and inventions of influential Black inventors who shaped American history and technology.
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Pioneering Minds: Black Inventors
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1. Who was known as 'The Peanut Man' for his many uses of the peanut, sweet potato, and soybean?
Madam C.J. Walker
George Washington Carver
Garrett Morgan
Sarah Breedlove
2. Garrett Morgan invented an important safety device that helps control traffic. What was it?
The light bulb
The telephone
The traffic light
The airplane
3. Madam C.J. Walker built a haircare empire and became one of America's first self-made female .
4. Before the modern traffic light, Garrett Morgan also invented a safety hood that helped firefighters and miners, which was an early version of the .
5. Explain one way George Washington Carver's inventions helped farmers in the Southern United States.
6. Madam C.J. Walker's original name was Sarah Breedlove.
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False
7. Garrett Morgan's traffic light had only two signals: stop and go.
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False
Match the inventor to their key invention.
8. George Washington Carver
a. Haircare products
9. Madam C.J. Walker
b. Uses for crops like peanuts
10. Garrett Morgan
c. Three-signal traffic light
11. Look at the image below. This invention significantly improved road safety. Who invented it?
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