Chapter 6 Concepts

Question 1

Describe how the National Road led to more people settling the West

Answer 1

The National Road was faster and led to more people going because it was easier to travel

Question 2

Explain how the transcontinental railroad changed the United States.

Answer 2

The Transcontinental Railroad changed the United States because people can go across the continent faster and more safely.

Question 3

The following events happened in this order:

Answer 3

1. Lewis and Clark explore the land west of the Mississippi
2. The Erie Canal is opened
3. The transcontinental railroad is completed
4. The airplane is invented

Question 4

Write the different types of jobs that Japanese immigrants did after they arrived in the United States

Answer 4

Farming
Fishing
Some owned small businesses

Question 5

Draw Conclusions:

1. The invention of the telegraph allowed people to send messages almost instantly.
2. The invention of the radio allowed people to send messages to many people at one time without wires.
3. People can now use computers to send e-mail messages instantly.

Answer 5

Communication became faster over time and it would become better in the future.

Question 6

Write how each of these inventions changed the way people communicated with one another.
TELEPHONE
TELEVISION

Answer 6

Telephone-
You can hear someone’s voice and talk to each other quickly
Television-
You can see the news, so they are giving special information you need to know quickly.

Question 7

Match the person with his invention:
JONAS SALK
HENRY FORD
LOUIS PASTEUR
CYRUS MCCORMICK

Answer 7

Jonas Salk- polio vaccine
Henry Ford- Assembly line
Louis Pasteur- way to kill germs
Cyrus McCormick- reaper

Question 8

Who helped pass a law making it illegal to treat people differently in the workplace?

Answer 8

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 9

Explain how Edward Jenner helped protect people from smallpox

Answer 9

Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine

Question 10

Write a detail to support this conclusion: Martin Luther King Jr. worked hard to help African Americans get equal rights

Answer 10

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that black people should be treated equally.

Question 11

Life has changed in many ways over time. Inventions and new ideas in transportation, communication, medicine and technology have made our lives easier.
Think about how travel and communication have changed over the years. Write about the different ways you have traveled or communicated.

Answer 11

I traveled with a car, airplane, bus, subway and train. I communicated by phone , FaceTime or letter.

Question 12

Write 2 causes of immigrants settling in the West

Answer 12

There are many jobs and places to live. Other immigrants bought or rented land to farm.

Question 13

Write one detail that supports the conclusion that life for the homesteaders was difficult

Answer 13

Neighbors were far from each other so it was difficult to get help

Question 14

What is the Wilderness Road And how did it affect travel?

Answer 14

the widening of the Cumberland Gap Trail. Made it easier for wagons to travel through the mountains.

Question 15

What is the Homestead Act of 1862 what did it do for the west?

Answer 15

Made it possible for many Americans to get 160 acres of land for very little money.
the act helped people settle the land in the West.

Question 16

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 And why was it made?

Answer 16

The Act stopped immigration from China for 10 years.

Some Americans thought Chinese immigrants were taking too many jobs

Question 17

Write one detail that supports the conclusion that communication has changed over the last 20 years

Answer 17

People now use cellphones instead of telephones with wires.

Question 18

Describe how people communicated with each other before the invention of the telephone and how the telephone made communication easier.

Answer 18

Before telephones people communicated with telegraphs and mail. Telephones made it easier because you can talk communicate quickly and communicated feelings clearly.

Question 19

What is The Pony Express and how did it change the way we communicate in that time? When was the pony express created?

Answer 19

• a mail system that carried letters on horseback from St. Joseph, Mississippi to Sacramento, California
• improved how people communicated
• letters arrived in 10 days
• created during the Civil War to help people find out what was happening around the country
• riders risked their lives

Question 20

How did people’s lives change in the 1900’s

Answer 20

1. All children could have equal educations👦🏿👩🏾‍🏫📚
2. Electrical wires were put in and power stations built so factories and offices could stay open at night💡💡💡
3. Cameras and computers changed the way people communicate📸💻🖥