Vocabulary
Vocabulary
People
People
Concepts
100
10 Year
What is a decade?
100
100 Years
What is a century?
100
Inventor of the Morse code.
Who is Samuel Morse?
100
The person who invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
How did the Pony Express help people?
The Pony Express enabled people to receive letters twice as fast than it took before.
200
Something that is made for the first time.
What is an invention?
200
A weak or killed form of a disease given to people.
What is a vaccine?
200
Inventor of the first telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
The person who invented the reaper.
Who is Cyrus Hall McCormick?
200
What did Edward Jenner do?
Edward Jenner found a way to protect people from smallpox.
300
The telegraph sent a series of signals and dots called this.
What is the Morse code?
300
A system made up of riders who rode up to 75 miles per day to deliver mail.
What is the Pony Express?
300
The two people who explored the land west of the Mississippi River.
Who are Lewis and Clark? (Meriwether Lewis and William Clark)
300
The two brothers who flew the first airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers? (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
300
Why was the invention of the television so important?
The invention of the television changed the way people received news. Suddenly, news came right to people homes.
400
A machine that cuts grain.
What is a reaper?
400
The process of killing germs by heating a liquid to just below the boiling point.
What is pasteurization?
400
Who invented the daguerreotype?
Who is Louis Daguerre?
400
This man invented the vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
400
How did Louis Daguerre and George Eastman improve society?
By inventing a way to take and print pictures, they helped people remember their favorite times.
500
The railroad that linked the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
To send out information over a wide area.
What is broadcast?
500
She created a medicine to attack diseased cells.
Who is Gertrude Elion?
500
He created the process of pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
What affects did the invention of the car have?
Roads and highways were built all around the world. In addition, people could get to and from places more quickly than before.
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