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Exploring the National Museum of American History: An On-Line Treasure Hunt

DIRECTIONS: Explore the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on the Web at http://www.si.edu/nmah. Find the answers to the following questions.

1. Last spring, conservators at the Smithsonian began a three-year project to restore this artifact "the single most powerful symbol of the American nation." What is it?

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2. How much did a 1918 Oldsmobile cost?

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3. Who studies the lives of people who lived in the past by looking at the objects and documents they left behind?

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4. How many children did Thomas Edison have?

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5. What machine did Hans J.R.M. Hansen invent in 1865?

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6. What great American musician, the son of a White House butler, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969?

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7. What instrument does the National Museum of American History Music Room feature?

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8. What 20-year-old machine is considered a "fossil"?

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9. What treasure from the National Museum of American History contains 648 diamond-shaped pieces of printed cotton?

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10. What locomotive hauled railcars of sugar cane from the fields to a sugar mill on the island of Oahu?

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