Abeka 4th Grade History test 12
How long was the first flight by the Wright Brothers
12 Seconds
stampede
A sudden rush of animals or people
Thomas A. Watson
Alexander Graham Bells Assistant
George Liede
Americas first missionary to a foreign land; probably the first ordained black preacher in America
Be able to match these states with their capitals
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont
Transcontinental
Crossing the continent; one coast to the other
Sir Henry Bessemer
Englishman who developed a method of turning iron into steel
Why was Henry Ford's car (Model T) so inexpensive?
Ford new he had to make his cars cheaper. He developed the Assembly Line allowing cars to be mad faster and at a cheaper price.
Why did immigrants come to America
Freedom
What type of fuel did Robert Goddard use in his rocket
Gasoline and Liquid Oxygen
Cyrus McCormick
Inventor of the first successful mechanical reaper
Charles Finney
Lawyer who became a revival preacher
What two products made American industry grow
Oil and Steel
How was the telegraph important in bringing the East and West together?
People did not feel out of touch and they could send messages really quick
Clermont
Robert Fultons first steam ship
Billy Sunday
baseball star who became a famous evangelist
Orville and Wilbur Wright
brothers who built and flew the first successful plan
Henry Ford
developed the assembly line which produced the Model T car.
Robert Fulton
developed the first successful steam ship
Dwight L. Moody
founder of Moody Bible Institute and Americas most famous evangelist at the end of the 1800's
Booker T. Washington
great educator who built the Tuskegee Institute
Garnett A. Morgan
invented the gas mask and the traffic signal with red, yellow and green lights
Thomas Edison
inventor of many things including the Light Bulb and the Phonograph
West frontier
is the only area that remained to be settled in the mid 1800's
Robert Goddard
launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket ever built
Homestead Act
law that promised 160 acres of free land to settlers in the West who would cultivate or homestead the land for five years
telegraph
machine used to send Morse code over electric wire. Invented by Samuel Morse
Pony Express
mail service which used fast horses to carry mail from St Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California
Andrew Carnegie
man who built the steel industry in America and made millions
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
man who designed the first shoe-lasting machine
Samuel Morse
man who invented the telegraph and developed Morse Code
John D. Rockefeller
man who organized the oil industry in America
assembly line
method of production where each worker has his own special job to do. Developed by Henry Ford
Adoniram Judson
missionary who served for many years in Burma. became known as the father of American Missions
Immigrant
person who leaves his country to make his home in another
Promontory Point, Utah
place where the Union Pacific Company and the Central Pacific Company met and completed the transcontinental railroad
George Washington Carver
scientist whose work with plants helped southern farmers; taught at Tuskegee Institute for many years he was born a slave
Morse code
system of short and long dots and dashes to be clicked over telegraph wires. Developed by Samuel Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
teacher of death-mutes, inventor of the telephone
industry
the manufacturing business; a kind of work that uses factories to make things.
Union Pacific Company and Central Pacific Company
the two railroad companies that built the transcontinental railroad
