Transportation
Settlers traveled west on this in covered wagons
What is the Oregon Trail?
Two men who explored the land the west of the Mississippi River
Who are Lewis and Clark?
How did mail travel in the early 1800s? (Name two ways)
What are horseback and wagon train?
What word means TO SEND OUT?
What is TO BROADCAST?
The man who found a way to protect people from small pox by giving them the cowpox vaccine?
Who is Edward Jenner?
These two men invented of the steam engine that was later used in the steam locomotive
Who are James Watt and Richard Trevithick?
The Native American translator and peacemaker who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
The man who was put in charge of the postal service
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The man who used a special tube to build a television
Who is A.A. Campbell Swinton?
The man who discovered that diseases are caused by germs
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This connected the east and the west
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What do we called a weak or killed form of a disease that is given to people?
What is a VACCINE?
The group of riders who rode 75 miles per day. They cut mail delivery in half.
What is the Pony Express?
Who invented the radio?
Who was Guglielmo Marconi?
The process of killing germs by heating milk
What is pasteurization?
These two men invented the first gasoline powered cars
Who are Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler?
The man who invented a simple camera
Who is George Eastman?
The man who invented the telegraph. People could send and receive messages through a thin wire in seconds.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The famous African American inventor who worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
Who is Lewis Latimer?
The woman who created medicines that attacked diseased cells and did not harm healthy cells?
Who is Gertrude Elion?
These two men flew the first airplane
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
What was the locomotive known as?
What is the Iron Horse?
The man who invented the first telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The man who invented the reaper, a machine that cuts grain faster
Who is Cyrus Hall McCormick?
The man who made a vaccine for polio. Polio is a disease that damages the spinal cord.
Who is Jonas Salk?