Social Studies Chapter 6 Lesson 3 & 4

Question 1

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Answer 1

Invented the reaper, a machine that cut grain in 1831.

Question 2

What is one of the most important inventions of the late 1800’s.

Answer 2

The automobile or car.

Question 3

Invention

Answer 3

Is something that is made for the first time

Question 4

What tools do people use to communicate?

Answer 4

We use tools, such as telephones, radios, televisions, and computers.

Question 5

Assembly line

Answer 5

Each worker does only one part of a job. The assembly line helped Ford build the Model T.

Question 6

Name some famous activists who fought for freedom.

Answer 6

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King jr.

Question 7

Equal rights

Answer 7

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s more people began to work on giving Americans equal rights or the same rights as others.

Question 8

Activist

Answer 8

Someone who works hard to make a change

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Question 9

How has communication changed in the last 20 years?

Answer 9

Many telephones do not use wires. Instead, satellites quickly send and receive signals for radios, televisions, cell phones, and computers.

Question 10

Technology

Answer 10

Is the scientific knowledge about how things work

Question 11

Telegraph

Answer 11

Is a machine that sends and receives signals through a thin wire. In 1844, the first telegraph message was sent between two cities.

Question 12

Who collaborated on the Television?

Answer 12

The idea of the television is based on the work of Morse, Bell, Marconi, and many other scientists.

Question 13

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 13

1904 opened a school for African American girls in Florida in response to segregation.

Question 14

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 14

An Italian inventor who found a way to send messages without wires and patented a way for radio signals to travel through air in 1896 and received the first radio message sent across the Atlantic Ocean in 1901.

Question 15

Jonas Salk

Answer 15

Used Jenner’s ideas to invent a vaccine against polio and gave a dead form of the polio virus.

Question 16

When was the television introduced?

Answer 16

In 1939, the television was introduced to a large audience at the World’s Fair in New York.

Question 17

Samuel Morse

Answer 17

Began to work on a telegraph in 1832. Six years later he invented a special code called the Morse code.

Question 18

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 18

Invented the telephone in 1876.

Question 19

What tools were used to communicate over long distances?

Answer 19

The telegraph and the telephone.

Question 20

Henry Ford

Answer 20

He opened a business that built and sold cars in 1903. He looked for a way to save time and money and thought about what each worker had to know about building a car. This lead to the assembly line.

Question 21

The Pony Express

Answer 21

A mail system set up in 1860 by a group of people that carried letters between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento California. The young men carried mail bags for 75-100 miles and changed horses every 10 miles. This improved communication and lasted 18 months.

Question 22

Vaccine

Answer 22

Help people bodies fight off disease

Question 23

Thomas Edison

Answer 23

In 1879, he invented a light bulb that was cheap and reliable. It provided light without needing a fire or candle.

Question 24

Edward Jenner

Answer 24

In 1796 he found a way to protect people from small pox by giving them a vaccine.

Question 25

Patent

Answer 25

Gives a person the right to be the only one making or selling an invention

Question 26

How have cameras and computers changed peoples lives.

Answer 26

They changed the way people communicate, shops for goods, and gather information.

Question 27

The Morse Code

Answer 27

Uses dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers. Telegraphs used Morse code to deliver messages almost instantly.

Question 28

Louis Pasteur

Answer 28

Discovered many diseases are caused by germs. In the 1860’s he invented a way to kill germs by heating foods and cooling them quickly. This is called pasteurization.

Question 29

Communicate

Answer 29

To pass thoughts or information to others