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Vocabulary
Transportation Over Time
Communication Over Time
Invention Over Time
Medicine Improves Over Time
100
What vocabulary word means "a machine that cuts grain"?
reaper
100
In the early 1800s, ___________________ explored the land west of the Mississippi River.
Lewis and Clark
100
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the ____________.
telephone
100
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
100
What is "a weak or killed form of a disease that is given to people so that they do not get the disease"?
vaccine
200
What vocabulary word means "something that is made for the first time"?
invention
200
Who started building cars in Detroit, Michigan?
Henry Ford
200
In 1837 Samuel Morse invented a machine that could send and receive messages through a thin wire. What was this invention called?
telegraph
200
In 1831 Cyrus Hall McCormick invented something that made harvesting crops easier for the farmers. What was it?
reaper
200
Louis Pasteur came up with a way to kill certain germs in milk. What is this process called?
pasteurization
300
What vocabulary word means "a way of signaling in which dots and dashes stand for letters"?
Morse Code
300
Who flew the first airplane?
Wilbur and Orville Wright
300
In 1775 Benjamin Franklin was in charge of the ________________.
mail
300
Louis Daguerre made his first photographs in 1831 on a piece of __________.
metal
300
Edward Jenner worked to protect people from smallpox. What disease helped him develop a vaccine for it?
cowpox
400
What vocabulary word means "a mail service in which riders carried mail on horseback"?
Pony Express
400
The ___________ replaced traveling by horse and wagon.
train
400
BONUS!!!! In 1896 Guglielmo Marconi found a way for voices to travel over long distances with no wires. What was his invention?
radio
400
How did the invention of the lightbulb help factories and offices?
They could stay open day and night. Compared to the candle, it was much safer.
400
Jonas Salk made a vaccine for _________.
polio
500
What vocabulary word means "train lines that linked the eastern United States to the west"?
Transcontinental Railroad
500
In 1842 many people moved to the west by following the ________________________.
Oregon Trail
500
In 1860 a group of people found a way to deliver mail faster and more safely. They set up the _________________.
Pony Express
500
Name an invention that people use today.
cell phone, iPad, computer, and many more answers!
500
Polio is a disease that can harm a person's __________.
spinal cord