Test 12 Study Guide

Question 1

Who invented the first successful liquid-fueled rocket?

Answer 1

Robert Goddard

Question 2

Who invented the Model T?

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

Who invented the first successful airplane?

Answer 3

the Wright brothers

Question 4

Who invented a traffic signal with colored lights?

Answer 4

Garret Morgan

Question 5

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

Who invented the phonograph?

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Question 7

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 7

Samuel Morse

Question 8

Who invented the first successful steamboat?

Answer 8

Robert Fulton

Question 9

Who invented the mechanical reaper?

Answer 9

Cyrus McCormick

Question 10

Who invented a shoe-lasting machine?

Answer 10

Jan Matzeliger

Question 11

Name the man who founded and built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

Answer 11

Booker T. Washington

Question 12

Name the man who was born a slave, but became a famous scientist who worked with plants.

Answer 12

George Washington Carver

Question 13

Name the man who was a lawyer who later became on of America’s greatest revival preachers

Answer 13

Charles Finney

Question 14

Name the man who was a baseball player before he became a preacher

Answer 14

Billy Sunday

Question 15

Name the man who was a shoe salesman before he became a famous evangelist

Answer 15

Dwight L. Moody

Question 16

Name the “Father of American Missions”

Answer 16

Adoniram Judson

Question 17

Name the man who made millions of dollars in the steel industry

Answer 17

Andrew Carnegie

Question 18

Name the man who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel

Answer 18

Sir Henry Bessemer

Question 19

Name the man who organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history

Answer 19

John D. Rockefeller

Question 20

Name the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad

Answer 20

1) Union Pacific
2) Central Pacific

Question 21

The two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory Point, _________

Answer 21

Utah

Question 22

This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years

Answer 22

Homestead Act

Question 23

This area was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800s.

Answer 23

west

Question 24

The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called ____________ code.

Answer 24

Morse

Question 25

The _______ __________ was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860.

Answer 25

pony express

Question 26

What two changes were brought about by the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 26

1) It helped settle the West.
2) The East was brought closer to the West.

Question 27

Why was the Model T so inexspensive?

Answer 27

It was built on an assembly line.

Question 28

How did the telegraph bring the East and West closer together?

Answer 28

People did not feel out of touch with each other; they could send messages instantly

Question 29

Capital of Connecticut

Answer 29

Hartford

Question 30

Capital of Delaware

Answer 30

Dover

Question 31

Capital of Maine

Answer 31

Augusta

Question 32

Capital of Massachusetts

Answer 32

Boston

Question 33

Capital of New Hampshire

Answer 33

Concord

Question 34

Capital of New Jersey

Answer 34

Trenton

Question 35

Capital of New York

Answer 35

Albany

Question 36

Capital of Pennsylvania

Answer 36

Harrisburg

Question 37

Capital of Rhode Island

Answer 37

Providence

Question 38

Capital of Vermont

Answer 38

Montpelier