Transportation Over Time

1. Transportation Over Time 10 20 30 40 50 Communication Over Time 10 20 30 40 50 Inventions over time 10 20 30 40 50 Medicine Improves over time 10 20 30 40 50 Double or Nothing 20 40 60 80 100

2. Lesson 1

3. What is one reason that new communities grew in the west? 10 Category 1

4. Lewis Clark told interesting stories about the West. 10 Category 1

5. Who developed and improved steam engines? 20 Category 1

6. James Watt and Richard Trevithick 20 Category 1

7. Why was mail delivered more quickly starting in 1860 than it had been in before? 30 Category 1

8. A group business people set up the pony express 30 Category 1

9. How was travel different in 1970 than it was in 1830? 40 Category 1

10. There were over 250,000 more miles of railroad track than in 1830. People could now travel by car 40 Category 1

11. What effect did improvements in transportation have on communities in the United States? 50 Category 1

12. People and goods moved more quickly than they had in the past. People moved west and more of the country became settled 50 Category 1

13. Lesson 2

14. Who invented the postal service? 10 Category 2

15. Benjamin Franklin 10 Category 2

16. What technology sent voices through wires? 20

17. Telephone 20 Category 2

18. Which inventor used a special tube to build a television? 30 Category 2

19. A.A. Cambell Swinton 30 Category 2

20. Who invented a way to send and receive signals through a thin wire? 40 Category 2

21. Samuel Morse 40 Category 2

22. What event happened first? The invention of the telegraph or the invention of the telephone? 50 Category 2

23. The telegraph was invented in 1837 and the telephone was invented in 1876. 50 Category 2

24. Lesson 3

25. What did George Eastman invent? 10 Category 3

26. He invented a camera that everyone can use to take pictures. 10 Category 3

27. What did Cyrus Hall McCormick invent to make farming easier? 20 Category 3

28. Reaper 20 Category 3

29. What is an accomplishment of Lewis Latimer? 30 Category 3

30. He did special drawings of a telephone. He worked on lamps and light bulbs with Edison. He helped many cities light their communities. 30 Category 3

31. Who invented the daguerreotype? 40 Category 3

32. Louis Daguerre 40 Category 3

33. How did the invention of the light bulb change the way people lived? 50 Category 3

34. Less danger from fire caused by candles burning at night Businesses and factories could stay open longer, people could see better at night 50 Category 3

35. Lesson 4

36. Why is Louis Pasteur and important scientist around the world? 10 Category 4

37. He made milk safe for people to drink 10 Category 4

38. Who invented the Polio vaccine and why is it important? 20 Category 4

39. Jonas Salk and the vaccine saved the lives of many people 20 Category 4

40. What is an accomplishment of Gertrude Elion? 30 Category 4

41. She helped treat people who has leukemia and malaria She figured out how to make medicine to attack diseased cells She won a Nobel prize for her work in medicine 30 Category 4

42. 40 Who found a way to protect people from smallpox? Category 4

43. Edward Jenner 40 Category 4

44. Why would a school require children to have vaccinations? 50 Category 4

45. The schools want to protect children’s health. It does not want sick children spreading disease. 50 Category 4

46. Double or Nothing questions follow

47. How did James Watt and Richard Trevithick change the way people traveled? 20 Category 5

48. Their inventions led to the creation of the steam locomotive and the building of railroads. 20 Category 5

49. How do today’s televisions sets compare to early television sets? 40 Category 5

50. Similar: They both show moving pictures with sound. The both convey information and entertainment Different: Early screens had only black-and-white pictures. Now pictures are in color. 40 Category 5