Completion Questions Flashcards

1
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In the early 1900s, Henry Ford built an affordable car known as the ________ _

A

Model T

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2
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____________ ________ invented a device to transmit the human voice electronically

A

Alexander Graham

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3
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________ _______ is credited with inventing the telegraph and a language for sending messages.

A

Samuel Morse

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4
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Increased industrialization created a need for more __________ workforce, as factories needed managers who could read and write.

A

educated

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5
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When ____________ __________ used electricity to power a motor, it paved the way for the development of electrical generators.

A

Micheal Faraday

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6
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Marie Curie concluded that energy is released from certain elements as they break down, in a process she called ____________

A

radioactivity

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7
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___________, Massachusetts grew into an industrial city that had many textile factories employing young women from the surrounding countryside.

A

lowell

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8
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The ________ Brothers were the first to fly a powered airplane in a sustained flight on December 17, 1903

A

Wright

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9
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An Italian physicist, ___________ ___________, developed a wireless telegraph, or radio.

A

Guglielmo Marconi

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10
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The theories of scientist ____________ ____________ including the theory of relativity and the formula E=mc^2, revolutionized physics

A

Albert Einstein

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About 12 million people ____________ to the United States from Europe, Russia, and China between 1870 and 1900.

A

Immigration

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12
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To destroy the bacteria in milk, cheese, and juice that caused disease, these products went through a process called _____________.

A

pasteurization

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