Social Studies Unit 2 Common Assessment Review

Where did the Wright Brothers first fly their plane?

• The Chisholm Trail

• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

• The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C

• Abilene, Kansas

Where did most European immigrants, who came to the U.S. in the 1800's, work?

• plantations

• ships

• factories

• farms

Cattle were herded up the ____ ____ to the railroad, so they could be sold for a good profit back east.

• Chisholm Trail

• Kitty Hawk

• Panama Canal

• Industrial Canal

What motivated cowboys to drive their cattle all the way to Kansas?

• More cattle were on the east coast , so they could sell them for less money.

• Kansas is on the east coast , so they could sell them for more money.

• Cattle were worth more money if they got lots of exercise so they drove them to Kansas.

• Fewer cattle were on the east coast , so they could sell them for more money.

Which man made feature began in Texas and ended in Kansas?

• The Great Western Cattle Trail

• The Chisholm Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Panama Canal

Which trail was longer in length?

• The Great Western Trail

• The Chisholm Trail

• The Goodnight Loving Trail

• The Panama Canal

Which invention allowed people to talk to one another over great distances?

• George Washington Carver's peanuts

• Alexander Graham Bell's telephone

• The Wright Brothers' plane

• Thomas Edison's lightbulb

Immigrants came to the United States because of

• jobs

• freedom

• rights

• all of the above

Which invention gave people the ability to work, read, and play after dark?

• The Wright Brothers' plane

• Thomas Edison's lightbulb

• Alexander Graham Bell's telephone

• George Washington Carver's crop rotation

This man made feature, originated by Theodore Roosevelt's idea, allowed ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without having to go around South America.

• the Panama Canal

• the Suez Canal

• the Great Lakes Waterway

• the Industrial Canal