Vocab
A ______ is a person who comes to a new country to live.
a. transcontinental
b. vaccine
c. immigrant
d. communicate
e. frontier
c. immigrant
What is an inventor?
A person that created something
What did Samuel Morse invent?
Morse code and the telegraph
What was a homesteader?
Someone that moved out west and had to make everything on their own.
New ways to ______ in the 1800s included using telegraphs and telephones.
a. transcontinental
b. vaccine
c. immigrant
d. communicate
e. frontier
d. communicate
What did Louis Pasteur invent?
Pasteurization
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
The telephone
What is the first thing many immigrants see when coming into America?
The Statue of Liberty
A _______ helps people's bodies learn to fight off a disease.
a. transcontinental
b. vaccine
c. immigrant
d. communicate
e. frontier
b. vaccine
Why were telegraphs and telephones invented?
To make it easier to communicate.
What did Cyrus Hall McCormick invent?
The reaper
Why did people travel in wagon trains?
It was safer than going solo
The __________ railroad ran from the Mississippi River to the West Coast.
a. transcontinental
b. vaccine
c. immigrant
d. communicate
e. frontier
a. transcontinental
How did the invention of the lightbulb help people?
Businesses could stay open later and people could walk on the street at night.
What did Henry Ford invent?
The Model T car and the assembly line
Who explored westward in the United States?
a. Ben and Jerry
b. Lewis and Clark
c. Trump and Biden
d. Marconi and Salmino
b. Lewis and Clark
A _______ is a region that forms the edge of a settled area.
a. transcontinental
b. vaccine
c. immigrant
d. communicate
e. frontier
e. frontier
What did Edward Jenner invent?
Smallpox vaccine
What did Guglielmo Marconi invent?
The radio
What is a primary source?
Something created by someone that actually witnessed the event