How do i study History

How do i study History

by Virginia W

​How do i study History

​As you read The American Journey: Reconstruction to the present, you will be given help in sorting out all the information you encounter.This textbook organizes the events of your nation's past and present around 10 themes.A theme is a concept, or main idea that happens again and again though out history.By recognizing these themes, you will have a better understand events of the past and how they affect you today.

Multiple Choice

Who were the first people to know that certain diseases were infectious?

• The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks

• Scientists

• Edward Jenner

• Robert Koch

Multiple Select

In the 1700s, who knew that girls who had the job of milking cows never got smallpox?

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Ancient Egyptians

• Edward Jenner

Fill in the Blanks

Who called their method vaccination because "vacca" is the Latin word for cow?

Multiple Choice

Who was Robert Koch?

• He was an indigenous healer

• He was a German medical doctor who found a way to stain bacteria so that they could be seen clearly through a microscope

• He was a scientist who studied to see why vegetable matter went bad

• He helped in the prevention of rabies

Multiple Select

Who made the antibiotic penicillin?

• Alexander Fleming

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Edward Jenner

Multiple Select

Robert Koch identified the TB bacteria in:

• 1900

• 1882

• 1860

• 1796

Multiple Choice

Which part of Edward Jenner's experiment was highly dangerous?

• Jenner put some smallpox pus into a cut in a boy's arm

• Jenner relied on antibodies to fight germs and diseases

• Jenner allowed smallpox to spread from one person to another during her experiment

• He left a patient untreated

Multiple Select

From what year has penicillin saved thousands of lives?

• 1800

• 1926

• 1940

• 2000