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Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Inventions
General Knowledge
General Knowledge Part 2
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What means across the continent?
What is transcontinental
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Each worker does only one part of a job.
What is assembly line
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What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
What is telephone
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Why was easier to travel on the National Road built by Congress?
What is it was paved, so travel was easier.
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Why did the U.S. government pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is the Chinese were taking jobs
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An area of land that includes a house and its buildings.
What is homestead
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People who move from one country to settle in a different country.
What is immigrant
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Who invented a light bulb that was cheap and reliable?
What is Thomas Edison
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Why did immigrants come to America?
What is freedom, land, jobs, opportunities
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What code did telegraphs use to deliver messages?
What is morse code
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Gives a person the right to be the only one making or selling an invention.
What is patent
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A region that forms the edge of a settled area.
What is frontier
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What did Edward Jenner make to fight off Small Pox?
What is vaccine
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Some of the FIRST immigrants came from what countries?
What is France, Spain, and England
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How do machines help farmers?
What is makes their job easier and faster
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Someone who works hard to make a change happen.
What is activist
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Because of Lewis and Clark, many people traveled this direction to set up new communities.
What is west
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Louis Pasteur invented a way to kill germs by heating foods and cooling them quickly. What is this process called?
What is pasteurization
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To be a homesteader, what did a person have to agree to do?
What is live on the land for 5 years.
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What did Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas both work for?
What is help enslaved African Americans become free
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Help people's bodies fight off disease.
What is vaccine
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What kind of car did Henry Ford make that cost less than other cars?
What is Model T
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Put the following inventions in order from earlier to latest. TV, telegraph, radio, telephone
What is telegraph, telephone, radio, TV
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Why was life difficult for the homesteaders?
What is harsh weather, animals, building their own homes, neighbors far away
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What president passed a law that made it illegal to treat people differently in the workplace?
What is Lyndon B. Johnson