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Unit 5 Quiz 1

Definition / Vocabulary Term
1 / a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city
2 / adopting industrial methods of manufacturing and producing
3 / American mechanics and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
4 / American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a leader of the Republican Party (GOP) and founder of the Progressive Party insurgency of 1912. During Spanish American War he was the leader of the “Rough Riders”
5 / best known for her catastrophic loss in Havana Harbor on the evening of 15 February 1898, sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three-quarters of her crew, the cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry.
6 / built across the Isthmus of Panama, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: extends from Colón on the Caribbean Sea southeast to Balboa on the Gulf of Panama; built by the US (1904–14), after an unsuccessful previous attempt (1880–89) by the French, length: 40 miles
7 / first cattle trail, that began in the Red River Valley and ran to Abilene, Kansas.
8 / freedmen that moved west following the Civil War to secure jobs on the long drives worked in Wild West Shows that were entertainment to the settlers in the West.
9 / inventor of the telephone, teacher of the deaf, allowed people to communicate faster over distance and lead the way to modern day technology such as the cell phone and texting.
10 / lack of food in a specific region
11 / large area of grasslands located between the United states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains
12 / legal grant issued to an inventor, giving the inventor the right to make profit off of his inventions
13 / long period of time with little to no rain
14 / main route for cattle headed to northern stockyards and railroad yards, began in western Texas and ended in Nebraska
15 / movement of the cattle from Texas to Kansas/Nebraska, the drive stretched over several months
16 / offer from the federal government of the United states giving people willing to move to the western territories 160 acres if they would develop the land, sparked the great migration West.
17 / Out of many one---the motto of the United States that describes the United states, born out of the original 13 colonies.
18 / person that has an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, or to institutions of learning and hospitals.
19 / practice of seeking out sensational news for the purpose of boosting a newspaper’s circulation, not always tell the truth or adding facts to make the story more interesting to the reader.
20 / production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery and specialization of labor, such as Henry Ford’s assembly line to build cars and make them affordable.
21 / scientist, made a huge impact on agriculture with his theory of crop rotation, created more than 300 products from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
22 / site of the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine, chosen because its frequent winds and soft sandy surfaces were suitable for their glider experiments, which they conducted over a three-year period prior to making the powered flights.
23 / something that motivates an individual to purchase an item; examples-buy one get one free, 50% off, 20% off your entire purchase
24 / system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
25 / to judge or mistreat a person based on the color of their skin, beliefs, or outward appearance that might be different from your own
26 / trails used to move cattle from southern Texas north to the stockyards and railroads so that the beef could be sold in the East where demand was high and supply was low making the cost 10 times what it was in Texas
27 / train route across the United States, finished in 1869, was the project of two railroad companies Union Pacific built from the east, the Central Pacific built from the west, the two lines met in Utah.
28 / twenty-fifth president of the United States, from 1897 until his death from an assassin's bullet in 1901, waged the Spanish-American War and at the end of it gained overseas territories for the United States; including Hawaii.
29 / United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope
30 / war in 1898 between the US and Spain, which the US started because it wanted Cuba to be independent from Spain and because the US battleship Maine was mysteriously destroyed by an explosion near Havana, Cuba.

Constructed Response: Select one of the innovators we discussed and explain how their work changed America at the turn of the century and how you have been impacted today by their work.

  1. Paragraph 1
  2. Introduction sentence
  3. Supporting detail to explain what the individual did
  4. Supporting detail of how their work impacted the turn of the century world
  5. Supporting detail of how their work impacted the turn of the century world
  6. Closing sentence
  7. Paragraph 2
  8. Introduction sentence
  9. Supporting detail to explain what their work/invention has contributed to today
  10. Supporting detail of how their work impacted your world today
  11. Supporting detail of how their work impacted your world today
  12. Closing sentence

Individual you have selected: / The Wright Brothers / George Washington Carver
Alexander Graham Bell / Thomas Edison