Test 12 Study Guide Flashcards
Who invented the first successful liquid-fueled rocket?
Robert Goddard
Who invented the Model T?
Henry Ford
Who invented the first successful airplane?
the Wright brothers
Who invented a traffic signal with colored lights?
Garret Morgan
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the first successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Who invented a shoe-lasting machine?
Jan Matzeliger
Name the man who founded and built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Booker T. Washington
Name the man who was born a slave, but became a famous scientist who worked with plants.
George Washington Carver
Name the man who was a lawyer who later became on of America’s greatest revival preachers
Charles Finney
Name the man who was a baseball player before he became a preacher
Billy Sunday
Name the man who was a shoe salesman before he became a famous evangelist
Dwight L. Moody
Name the “Father of American Missions”
Adoniram Judson
Name the man who made millions of dollars in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Name the man who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel
Sir Henry Bessemer
Name the man who organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history
John D. Rockefeller
Name the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad
1) Union Pacific
2) Central Pacific
The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory Point, _________
Utah
This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years
Homestead Act
This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800s.
west
The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called ____________ code.
Morse
The _______ __________ was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860.
pony express
What two changes were brought about by the transcontinental railroad?
1) It helped settle the West.
2) The East was brought closer to the West.
Why was the Model T so inexspensive?
It was built on an assembly line.
How did the telegraph bring the East and West closer together?
People did not feel out of touch with each other; they could send messages instantly
Capital of Connecticut
Hartford
Capital of Delaware
Dover
Capital of Maine
Augusta
Capital of Massachusetts
Boston
Capital of New Hampshire
Concord
Capital of New Jersey
Trenton
Capital of New York
Albany
Capital of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Capital of Rhode Island
Providence
Capital of Vermont
Montpelier
