Lesson 1
When Europeans FIRST arrived to North America, WHO helped them learn about the land?
Native Americans
People who move to a new place for better jobs, religious freedom, a safe place to live, to earn more money, or be closer to family are called __________________.
immigrants
What was the name of the FIRST official mail service we created in the 1800s to send letters across the country?
The Pony Express
What was the most important invention in the late 1800s? (Hint: transportation)
automobile
What is something Ms. Rho cannot live without?
coffee
WHO were the two people hired by Thomas Jefferson to explore the west?
Lewis and William Clark
Most European immigrants sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in to the New York Harbor. One of the FIRST things they saw was the __________________________________________.
Statue of Liberty
What do people get to protect their inventions? They get this to be the only one making or selling an invention.
patent
Henry Ford wanted to build a car that was affordable for everyone. What did he create to make the car production process faster and efficient?
AND
What was the specific name of the car that Ford created which cost LESS than other cars at the time?
He created an assembly line to make car production in factories easier.
Model T
Martha Graham was often considered as the founder of _____________________.
modern dance
To make traveling easier, Congress built the ______________________. This was a paved road that started in Maryland and ended in _________________.
National Road / Illinois
In 1775, Daniel Boone and his 28 men helped make the search for more land out west easier and less dangerous. What exactly did he do to the Cumberland Gap trail? (2 things)
widened the Cumberland Gap trail and added new paths. Thanks to this, wagons can now pass through and not just people.
In 1832, Samuel Morse invented two things. What were the two things he invented?
telegraph and morse code
In the 1950s, who created the vaccine for Polio?
Jonas Salk
Jacob Lawrence was an __________________________________. He gained fame for his 60 panel piece called the _________________________.
African American painter / Migration Series
To maintain and build roads, people were charged _____. A huge highway system was eventually built with money from the ___________________________________.
What was the Homestead Act? What were some of the requirements to be a homesteader?
The Homestead Act allowed many Americans to get 160 acres of land for very little money. To be one, a person had to build a house and live on the land for 5 years.
Who invented the telephone?
AND
Guglielmo Marconi invented the ____________.
Alexander Graham Bell / Radio
In 1796, who created a vaccine to fight off small pox?
A vaccine helps people fight off disease.
Edward Jenner
Who was the very influential musician in jazz? He helped jazz move from novelty in to fine art.
Louis Armstrong
Steam locomotives were first built in 1804. We created a brand new railroad system for it which was called the _____________________________.
Transcontinental railroad
Many immigrants came from China during the gold rush, and at first many Americans welcomed them. WHY did we eventually pass the Chinese Exclusion Act and keep it for 10 years?
Some Americans thought that Chinese immigrants were taking too many jobs.
What was the invention that was NOT just created by one person?
Television
What was the main difference between how the small pox vaccine and the polio vaccine were made?
Small pox vaccine was made from a very weak virus. Polio vaccine was made from a dead form of the virus.
The process of pasteurization was named after ________________.
What is pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
Pasteurization is a way to kill germs by heating foods and cooling them quickly.