Vocabulary
What is a patent?
Document issued by government to protect your invention from theft and copy.
Who created the printing press? (last name is fine)
Gutenberg
What invention put an end to the pony express?
telegraph
What genre might this book be?
My Life, by Jim Neighbors
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Autobiography
What genre?
Caleb, a Story of a School Prankster in 2024,
by Jules Trent
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realistic fiction
Define significantly.
greatly, largely, a lot...
What year was the first printing press created?
about 1440
What year was the Homestead Act started?
1862
What genre?
Aliens and the Galactic Apocalypse, by Sue Geller
Sci Fi
What group of people traveled farthest to work on the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Chinese
Define transmitted.
to send, to communicate...
What were two significant outcomes of the printing press being created?
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books for everyone
common people learn how to read
What event ended and left many African American men without jobs? This caused many to join the calvary.
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Civil War
What genre?
The story of Ozzy Osbourne, by Kelly Osbourne
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Biography
In the story Linked, by Gordan Korman, who is president of the student government and who is the only Jewish girl at school?
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Caroline
Dana
Define enabled.
given a chance to do it
How were messages actually transmitted with the telegraph? (How did they get to the destination?)
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electric current
What two men are creditied with exploring the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
The Human Heart and How it Functions, by Gil Sacks
Nonfiction, informational text
In the story Linked, who was the one who got caught putting fertilizer in the scientists office, and who was the first one to discover a Swastika at school?
Link
Michael
What was the Renaissance?
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a period of great advancement in educational and artistic ideas
What was the name of the code used for the telegraph?
Morse
Name two things mountain men did to help others coming after them?
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They created trails and passed on survival skills, acted as guides...
What genre?
On the Homestead, a Story About a Family and the Homestead Act of 1862, (not based on a real family)
by Sandra Block
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Historical Fiction
In New Mexico, name two groups of people who were displaced from their land because of Westward Expansion.
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Native Americans
Mexican Americans