Vocabulary
Inventions
Travel/Communication
Americans Move West/The Homestead Act
100

What is a canal? 

A Canal is a waterway that is dug by people

100

Who created the polio vaccine?

Jonas Salk

100

What railroad ran from the Mississippi River to the West Coast?

Transcontinental
100

What is a difference between a city and a frontier region?

Many people live in the cities. Frontier regions have not been settled by people. 

200

What is a homestead?

A homestead is an area of land that includes a house and its building.

200

Who created the automobile?

Henry Ford

200

What was the first communication device invented?

Telegraph

200

What is one reason people moved to the frontier?

The cities became crowded.

300

What is a patent?

A patent gives a person the right to be the only one making or selling an invention.

300

Wo created the reaper?

Cyrus Hall McCormick 

300

Why did people travel on rivers?

to carry heavy goods

300

What was an effect of the Homestead Act?

More people settled land in the West.

400

What is an invention?

An invention is something that is made for the first time. 

400

Who created the smallpox vaccine?

Edward Jenner

400

Why was wagon trains the best way to travel?

Made the trip safer because people could watch out for one another 

400

Why did the U.S. government pass the Homestead Act?

to encourage people to settle the West and help the country grow.

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