Chapter 6 Review

Choose the correct definition

transcontinental

• a waterway that is dug by people

• across a continent

• a machine that sends and receives

  signals through a thin wire

• helps people’s bodies fight off disease

Choose the correct definition

canal

• a machine that sends and receives

  signals through a thin wire

• an area of land that includes a house

  and its buildings

• helps people’s bodies fight off disease

• a waterway that is dug by people

Choose the correct definition

telegraph

• an area of land that includes a house

  and its buildings

• helps people’s bodies fight off disease

• a machine that sends and receives

  signals through a thin wire

• across a continent

Choose the correct definition

vaccine

• across a continent

• a machine that sends and receives

  signals through a thin wire

• an area of land that includes a house

  and its buildings

• helps people’s bodies fight off disease

Choose the correct definition

homestead

• a machine that sends and receives

  signals through a thin wire

• helps people’s bodies fight off disease

• across a continent

• an area of land that includes a house

  and its buildings

What was the fastest way to travel across the country in 1869?

• boat

• wagon train

• airplane

• railroad

Who invented the telephone?

• Samuel Morse

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Cyrus Hall McCormick

What did landowners do with the money they received from toll roads?

• They built and fixed roads.

• They grew crops for travelers to eat.

• They built hotels for travelers.

• They saved it for their children

Which explorer worked to widen the Cumberland Gap and to allow wagons to

travel though the mountains to the American frontier?

• Daniel Boone

• Zebulon Pike

• Davy Crockett

• Sacagawea

What role did Mary McLeod Bethune have in the fight for equal education for

everyone?

• She ruled in court that school segregation was against the law.

• She opened a school for African American girls.

• She freed more than 300 slaves by 1860.

• She delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.