Inventors

Changes in Communication

100

1. Who invented the telephone?

1. Alexander Graham Bell

OR

Bell

200

2. Who invented the telegraph?

2. Samuel Morse

300

3. What is the name of the code that the telegraph uses?

3. Morse Code

400

4. What did the telephone let people do for the first time?

(Its something that the telegraph couldn't do!)

4. listen and talk to people that are far away

500

5. What are the only 2 things Samuel Morse's code is made up of?

5. dots and dashes

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Changes in Transportation

300

6. Who invented the automobile?

6. Henry Ford

400

7. Which brothers invented the first airplane?

7. The Wright Brothers

500

8. What is the name of the line that Henry Ford used to make cars?

8. Assembly Line

Changes in the Home

300

9. Who invented the first electric lightbulb? 

Name ONE.

9. Thomas Edison

OR

Lewis Latimer

400

10. What decade was the lightbulb invented?

10. The 1880s

500

11. What is one thing people used for light before the lightbulb was invented?

11. Candles

Gas Lamps

Oil Lamps

Review! (Not on the test!)

100

Who led marches for civil rights in America in the 1960s?

Martin Luther King Jr.

200

Who was MLK inspired by?

Mohandas Gandhi

300

Who built the first metal skyscraper?

William Jenney

400

Who helped give American women the right to vote?

Susan B. Anthony

OR

Elisabeth Cady Stanton

500

What did George Stephenson invent?

The steam engine