4th Grade History Test 12

Question 1

the first successful liquid-fueled rocket

Answer 1

Robert Goddard

Question 2

the Model T

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

the first successful airplane

Answer 3

Orville WRight

Question 4

a traffic signal with colored lights

Answer 4

Garret Morgan

Question 5

the telephone

Answer 5

Alexander G. Bell

Question 6

the phonograph

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Question 7

the telegraph

Answer 7

Samuel Morse

Question 8

the first successful steamboat

Answer 8

Robert Fulton

Question 9

the mechanical reaper

Answer 9

Cyrus McCormick

Question 10

a shoe-lasting machine

Answer 10

Jan Matzeliger

Question 11

I was the man who founded and built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Answer 11

Booker T. Washington

Question 12

I was born a slave, but became a famous scientist who worked with plants.

Answer 12

George Washington Carver

Question 13

I was a lawyer who became one of America’s greatest revival preachers.

Answer 13

Charles Finney

Question 14

I was a converted baseball player who received nationwide attention for my fiery preaching.

Answer 14

Billy Sunday

Question 15

I was a shoe salesman who became America’s most famous evangelist and founder of a famous Bible institute.

Answer 15

Dwight L. Moody

Question 16

I was the “Father of American Missions” who spent many years preaching to the people of Burma.

Answer 16

Adoniram Judson

Question 17

I made millions of dollars in the steel industry in America.

Answer 17

Andrew Carnegie

Question 18

I organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history.

Answer 18

John D. Rockefeller

Question 19

The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were

Answer 19

the Union Pacific Company

the Central Pacific Company

Question 20

The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at

Answer 20

Promontory Point, utah

Question 21

This act promised 160 acres of land anyone who would farm the land for five years

Answer 21

Homestead Act

Question 22

This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800s

Answer 22

west

Question 23

The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called

Answer 23

Morse code

Question 24

The __ was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860.

Answer 24

pony express

Question 25

What two changes were brought about by the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 25

It helped to settle the West.

The East was brought closer to the West.

Question 26

Why was the Model T so inexpensive?

Answer 26

It was built on an assembly line.

Question 27

How did the telegraph bring the East and West closer together?

Answer 27

People did not feel out of touch with each other; they could send messages instantly.

Question 28

Capital of Connecticut.

Answer 28

Hartford

Question 29

Capital of Delaware.

Answer 29

Dover

Question 30

Capital of Maine.

Answer 30

Augusta

Question 31

Capital of Massachusetts

Answer 31

Boston

Question 32

Capital of New Hampshire

Answer 32

Concord

Question 33

Capital of New Jersey

Answer 33

Trenton

Question 34

Capital of New York

Answer 34

Albany

Question 35

Capital of Pennsylvania

Answer 35

Harrisburg

Question 36

Capital of Rhode Island

Answer 36

Providence

Question 37

Capital of Vermont

Answer 37

Montpelier