6th Grade Test 9 Ch. 10-11

Question 1

Alexander Graham Bell invented this

Answer 1

The telephone

Question 2

Thomas Edison invented this

Answer 2

The electric lightbulb

Question 3

Henry Ford produced this

Answer 3

The Model T

Question 4

Robert Fulton invented this

Answer 4

The steamboat

Question 5

Robert Goddard invented this

Answer 5

The liquid-fuel rocket

Question 6

Cyrus McCormick invented this

Answer 6

The mechanical reaper

Question 7

Garrett A. Morgan invented this

Answer 7

The gas mask

Question 8

Samuel Morse invented this

Answer 8

The telegraph

Question 9

Wilbur and Orville Wright invented this

Answer 9

The airplane

Question 10

The law which gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the west was called this

Answer 10

The Homestead Act

Question 11

Sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes are called this

Answer 11

Reservations

Question 12

One of the greatest land Rushes was in what is now the state of…

Answer 12

Oklahoma

Question 13

A person who comes into a new country to live is called this

Answer 13

And immigrant

Question 14

This person organized America’s oil industry

Answer 14

John D. Rockefeller

Question 15

The steel industry was brought to America by this person

Answer 15

Andrew Carnegie

Question 16

The man who developed the assembly line method of production

Answer 16

Henry Ford

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Morse Code

Question 18

Russian America eventually became this state

Answer 18

Alaska

Question 19

“Remember the main” became a slogan during this war

Answer 19

The Spanish-American war

Question 20

The leader of the Rough Riders

Answer 20

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 21

The territory that became our 50th state

Answer 21

Hawaii

Question 22

The first battle of the Civil War began here in 1861

Answer 22

Fort Sumter

Question 23

One of the most famous leaders of the underground railroad was this person

Answer 23

Harriet Tubman

Question 24

The Union’s ironclad ship was called this

Answer 24

The Monitor

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 26

The general who became commander of all Union armies in 1864

Answer 26

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 27

The turning point of the Civil War was this battle

Answer 27

The battle of Gettysburg

Question 28

The battle of Vicksburg was important because…..

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

William T. Sherman

Question 30

The capital of the Confederate states

Answer 30

Richmond, Virginia

Question 31

The president of the Confederacy

Answer 31

Jefferson Davis

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Lee surrendered to Grant

Question 33

The 16th United States President

Answer 33

Abraham Lincoln

Question 34

John Wilkes Booth is remembered for this

Answer 34

He shot President Lincoln

Question 35

To carry mail across the United States quickly, this began to operate in 1860 and continued for 19 months

Answer 35

The Pony Express

Question 36

Clara Barton is remembered for doing this

Answer 36

She founded the American red cross

Question 37

What is D. L. Moody famous for?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Booker T. Washington is remembered for this

Answer 38

He founded Tuskeegee Institute

Question 39

Who’s the lab was known as “God’s little workshop”?

Answer 39

George Washington Carver’s

Question 40

People who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery

Answer 40

Abolitionists

Question 41

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

Answer 41

The Underground Railroad

Question 42

A decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument

Answer 42

Compromise

Question 43

The southern states that left the union formed their own nation called this….

Answer 43

The Confederate states of America

Question 44

These two important issues were settled by the Civil War

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Locate these places on a map

Answer 45

Baffin Island
Davis Street 
Island of Newfoundland
Greenland 
Lake Titicaca 
Victoria Island 
Falkland islands 
Great Lakes 
South Georgia Island 
Vancouver Island 
Hawaiian Islands 
Lake Winnipeg 
Queen Elizabeth Islands 
Hudson Strait
Lake Maracaibo 
Ellesmere Island 
Galapagos Islands 
Bering Strait 
West Indies 
Straight of Magellan

Question 46

Eli Whitney invented this

Answer 46

The cotton gin