6th Grade History Test 9

Question 1

invented the cotton gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

invented the mechanical reaper

Answer 2

Cyrus McCormick

Question 3

invented the steamboat

Answer 3

Robert Fulton

Question 4

invented the telegraph

Answer 4

Samuel Morse

Question 5

invented the telephone

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

invented the electric light bulb

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Question 7

invented the airplane

Answer 7

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Question 8

produced the Model T

Answer 8

Henry Ford

Question 9

invented the liquid-fuel rocket

Answer 9

Robert Goddard

Question 10

invented the gas mask

Answer 10

Garrett A. Morgan

Question 11

the law which gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the West

Answer 11

Homestead Act

Question 12

Sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes

Answer 12

reservations

Question 13

one of the greatest land rushes was in what is now the state of

Answer 13

Oklahoma

Question 14

a person who comes into a new country to live

Answer 14

immigrant

Question 15

organized America’s oil industry

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

the steel industry was brought to America by

Answer 16

Andrew Carnegie

Question 17

the man who developed the assembly line method of production

Answer 17

Henry Ford

Question 18

the system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph is called

Answer 18

Morse code

Question 19

Russian America eventually became the state of

Answer 19

Alaska

Question 20

“Remember the Maine” became a slogan during which war

Answer 20

Spanish-American WAr

Question 21

the leader of the Rough Riders

Answer 21

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 22

the territory that became our 50th state

Answer 22

Hawaii

Question 23

the first battle of the Civil War began at

Answer 23

Ft. Sumter in 1861

Question 24

One of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad

Answer 24

Harriet Tubman

Question 25

the Union’s ironclad ship

Answer 25

Monitor

Question 26

President Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union

Answer 26

the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 27

the general who became commander of all Union armies in 1864

Answer 27

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 28

the turning point of the Civil War

Answer 28

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 29

Why was the battle of Vicksburg important?

Answer 29

The Union Army cut the South in two by gaining control of the Mississippi River

Question 30

the union general whose “march to sea” hastened the end of the war

Answer 30

William T. Sherman

Question 31

the capital of the Confederate states

Answer 31

Richmond, Virginia

Question 32

the president of the Confederacy

Answer 32

Jefferson Davis

Question 33

What happened in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865

Answer 33

Lee surrendered to Grant.

Question 34

the 16th President of the U.S.

Answer 34

Abraham Lincoln

Question 35

What is John Wilkes Booth remembered for?

Answer 35

He shot President Lincoln.

Question 36

to carry mail across the United States quickly, __- began to operate in 1860 ad continued for 19 months.

Answer 36

the Pony Express

Question 37

for what accomplishment is Clara Barton best remembered

Answer 37

She founded the American Red Cross.

Question 38

For what is D. L. Moody famous?

Answer 38

He was America’s most famous evangelist during the 19th century.

Question 39

For what accomplishment is Booker T. Washington remembered?

Answer 39

He founded Tuskegee Institute.

Question 40

Whose lab was known as “God’s Little Workshop”?

Answer 40

George Washington Carver’s

Question 41

people who spent too much time trying to outlaw slavery

Answer 41

abolitionists

Question 42

the system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid-1800s to help slaves flee to freedom

Answer 42

Underground Railroad

Question 43

a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument

Answer 43

compromise

Question 44

the southern states that left the Union formed their own nation called

Answer 44

the Confederate States of America

Question 45

What two important issues were settled by the Civil War?

Answer 45

Before the war, some states believed that since they voluntarily joined the Union, they could leave when they chose. Other states believed theUnion could not be divided. The Civl War settled that argument; no state could leave the Union. The second important issue was that of slavery. The end of the Civil War also brought about the end of slavery.