4th Grade History Test 12 Flashcards
the first successful liquid-fueled rocket
Robert Goddard
the Model T
Henry Ford
the first successful airplane
Orville WRight
a traffic signal with colored lights
Garret Morgan
the telephone
Alexander G. Bell
the phonograph
Thomas Edison
the telegraph
Samuel Morse
the first successful steamboat
Robert Fulton
the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
a shoe-lasting machine
Jan Matzeliger
I was the man who founded and built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Booker T. Washington
I was born a slave, but became a famous scientist who worked with plants.
George Washington Carver
I was a lawyer who became one of America’s greatest revival preachers.
Charles Finney
I was a converted baseball player who received nationwide attention for my fiery preaching.
Billy Sunday
I was a shoe salesman who became America’s most famous evangelist and founder of a famous Bible institute.
Dwight L. Moody
I was the “Father of American Missions” who spent many years preaching to the people of Burma.
Adoniram Judson
I made millions of dollars in the steel industry in America.
Andrew Carnegie
I organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history.
John D. Rockefeller
The two companies that built the transcontinental railroad were
the Union Pacific Company
the Central Pacific Company
The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at
Promontory Point, utah
This act promised 160 acres of land anyone who would farm the land for five years
Homestead Act
This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800s
west
The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called
Morse code
The __ was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860.
pony express
