Test 9 - Chapter 10 & 11 Review Map Masteries 13 - 14

Question 1

Who invented the gas mask?

Answer 1

Garrett A. Morgan

Question 2

Who invented the liquid-fuel rocket?

Answer 2

Robert Goddard

Question 3

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 3

Eli Whitney

Question 4

Who invented the electric light bulb?

Answer 4

Thomas Edison

Question 5

Who invented the mechanical reaper?

Answer 5

Cyrus McCormick

Question 6

Who invented the steamboat?

Answer 6

Robert Fulton

Question 7

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 7

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 8

Who invented the airplane?

Answer 8

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Question 9

Who invented the produced Model T?

Answer 9

Henry Ford

Question 10

What law gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the West?

Answer 10

Homestead Act

Question 11

What are sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes called?

Answer 11

reservations

Question 12

What is a person who comes into a new country to live called?

Answer 12

immigrant

Question 13

The system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph is called…

Answer 13

Morse Code

Question 14

The steel industry was brought to America by whom?

Answer 14

Andrew Carnegie

Question 15

The man who developed the assembly line method of production was whom?

Answer 15

Henry Ford

Question 16

One of the greatest land rushes was in what is now the state of …

Answer 16

Oklahoma

Question 17

Who organized American’s oil industry?

Answer 17

John D. Rockefeller

Question 18

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 18

Samuel Morse

Question 19

What did Russian America eventually become?

Answer 19

Alaska

Question 20

What territory became our 50th state?

Answer 20

Hawaii

Question 21

Who was the leader of the Rough Riders?

Answer 21

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 22

“Remember the Maine” became the slogan during what war?

Answer 22

Spanish-American War

Question 23

Why was the battle of Vicksburg important?

Answer 23

The Union Army cut the South in two by gaining control of the Mississippi River

Question 24

The first battle of the Civil War began where in 1861?

Answer 24

Ft. Sumner

Question 25

The turning point of the Civil War was the Battle of what?

Answer 25

Gettysburg

Question 26

One of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad was who?

Answer 26

Harriet Tubman

Question 27

The general who became commander of all Union in armies in 1864?

Answer 27

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 28

The Union’s ironclad ship was called what?

Answer 28

Monitor

Question 29

President Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union was…

Answer 29

the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 30

The Union general whose “march to the sea” hastened the end of the war

Answer 30

William T. Sherman

Question 31

For what is D.L. Moody famous?

Answer 31

He was America’s most famous evangelist during the 19th century

Question 32

The capital of the Confederate states

Answer 32

Richmond, VA

Question 33

For what accomplishment is Clara Burton best remembered?

Answer 33

She founded the America Red Cross

Question 34

The president of the Confederacy

Answer 34

Jefferson Davis

Question 35

To carry mail across the United States quickly this began to operate in 1860 and continued for 19 months.

Answer 35

the Pony Express

Question 36

What happened in Appomattox Courthouse, VA, on April 9, 1865?

Answer 36

Lee surrendered to Grant

Question 37

What is John Wilkes Booth remembered for?

Answer 37

He shot President Lincoln

Question 38

The 16th United States President was who?

Answer 38

Abraham Lincoln

Question 39

For what accomplishment is Booker T. Washington remembered?

Answer 39

He founded Tuskegee Institute

Question 40

Whose lab was known as “God’s Little Workshop”?

Answer 40

George Washington Carver’s

Question 41

The southern states that left the Union formed their own nation, _____________ _________________ of America

Answer 41

Confederate States

Question 42

People who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery

Answer 42

abolitionist

Question 43

A decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument?

Answer 43

compromise

Question 44

The system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid-1800’s to help slaves flee to freedom

Answer 44

Underground Railroad

Question 45

What two important issues were settled by the Civil War?

Answer 45

Before the war, some states believed that since they voluntarily joined the Union, they could leave when they chose. Other states believed the Union could not be divided. The Civil War settled that argument; no state could leave the Union. The second important issue was that of slavery. The end of the Civil War also brought about the end of slavery.

Question 46

Know these locations

Answer 46

Baffin Island, Davis Straight, Island of Newfoundland, Greenland, Lake Titicaca, Victoria Island, Falkland Islands, Great Lakes, South Georgia Island, Vancouver Island, Hawaiian Islands, Lake Winnipeg, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Hudson Strait, Lake Maracaibo, Ellesmere Island, Galapagos Island, Bering Strait, West Indies, Strait of Magellan