canal
transcontinental
homestead
vaccine
telegraph
wagon
trains
technology
immigrants
activist
frontier
Key
Concepts
1.
What was the fastest way to travel across the country in 1869?
2.
Who invented the telephone?
3.
What did landowners do with the money they received from toll roads?
4.
Which explorer worked to widen the Cumberland Gap and to allow wagons to travel
through the mountains to the American frontier?
5.
What role did Mary McLeod Bethune have in the fight for equal education for
everyone?
6.
What did Orville and Wilbur Wright start building in the early 1900s?
7.
Harsh weather, sickness, and steep mountains were difficulties MOSTLY faced by
people traveling in _____________________
8.
The Pony Express was a faster system for carrying _________________ that
involved riders changing horses while traveling across the country.
9.
How did the first radio signals travel?
10.
Explain how Henry Ford’s assembly line worked, and how it affected car prices.
11.
What did both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman fight against? Name 1 thing
each person did.
12.
How did Sacajawea help Lewis and Clark as they explored the West?
13.
What are 2 reasons why people move, or immigrate, to a new land?
14.
What event brought so many immigrants from China to the USA that it eventually
led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
15.
In 1860, people set up _________________ to improve the way letters were carried
across America.
16.
What is John Roebling’s best known contribution to New York City?
17.
When thousands of European and Asian immigrants came to the USA in the early
1800s, where did they MOSTLY settle?
18.
What is the fastest way to send a written message today?
19.
What tool that we have today sends and receives signals for radios,
televisions, cell phones, and computers?
20.
People in the early 1800s wanted to improve transportation of goods and people
between the Great Lakes and New York City, so they built ____________
21. What
kind of car did Henry Ford want to build?
22. Today,
new and more powerful airplanes allow people to travel across the country in 6
________
23. What
did the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1965 supply money to build?
24. What
was the MOST COMMON way European immigrants arrived in NY in the early 1800s?
25. How
did Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb change the way people lived?
26. What
details did Lewis and Clark tell people about when they returned from exploring
the West? What was the effect of telling people these stories?
27. What
was the main goal of the Homestead Act?
28. What
idea did Edward Jenner use to fight smallpox in 1796? How was it successful?
29. How
did the transcontinental railroad improve travel in the 1800s?
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