People to Know
What Samuel Morse is known for
a. traffic signal with colored lights
b. the Model T
c. the telegraph
d. the mechanical reaper
What is the telegraph?
This was a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, that opened in 1860
What is the pony express?
The reason why the Model T was so inexpensive
What is "it was built on an assembly line?"
The capital of Connecticut
a. Dover
b. Hartford
c. Boston
d. Concord
What is Hartford?
The capital of New Jersey
a. Albany
b. Hartford
c. Augusta
d. Trenton
What is Trenton?
What Robert Fulton is known for
a. the first successful airplane
b. the Model T
c. a shoe-lasting machine
d. the first successful steamboat
What is the first successful steamboat?
The code of short and long dashes to be clicked out over the telegraph wire was called
What is Morse Code?
One change that was brought about by the transcontinental railroad
What is "it helped settle the West"
or "The East was brought closer to the West"
The capital of Delaware
a. Augusta
b. Montpelier
c. Providence
d. Dover
What is Dover?
The capital of New York
a. Albany
b. Concord
c. Montpelier
d. Dover
What is Albany?
What Charles Finney is known for
a. the telephone
b. a lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers
c. founder and building of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
d. the phonograph
What is a lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers?
This territory was the only frontier that remained to be settled by the middle of the 1800s
What is the West?
Another change that was brought about by the transcontinental railroad
What is "it helped settle the West"
or "The East was brought closer to the West"
The capital of Maine
a. Augusta
b. Boston
c. Providence
d. Harrisburg
What is Augusta?
Harrisburg is the capital of this state
a. Vermont
b. Connecticut
c. Pennsylvania
d. New Jersey
What is Pennsylvania?
What John D. Rockefeller is known for
a. organized the oil industry and became the first billionaire in history
b. "Father of American Missions"
c. developed a method of turning iron ore into steel
d. made millions of dollars in the steel industry in America
What is organizing the oil industry and becoming the first billionaire in history?
This law promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm the land for five years
What is the Homestead Act?
Why the telegraph brought the East and West closer together
What is "people did not feel out of touch with each other, since they could send messages instantly?"
The capital of Massachusetts
a. Concord
b. Boston
c. Providence
d. Montpelier
What is Boston?
Providence is the capital of this state
a. New Hampshire
b. Maine
c. Rhode Island
d. New York
What is Rhode Island?
What Robert Goddard is known for
a. a shoe salesman who became America's most famous evangelist and founder of a famous Bible Institute
b. a slave who became a famous scientist with plants
c. spent many years preaching to the people of Burma
d. first successful liquid-fueled rocket
What is the first successful liquid-fueled rocket?
Where the two tracks of the transcontinental railroad met
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
The two companies that build the transcontinental railroad
Who is the Union Pacific Company and the Central Pacific Company?
a. Concord
b. Trenton
c. Albany
d. Harrisburg
What is Concord?
Montpelier is the capital of this state
a. Vermont
b. Connecticut
c. Delaware
d. Dover
What is Vermont?