Unit 6 History Quiz 3

What is used today to send signals for great distances and across the ocean?

• telegraphs

• wires

• satellites

• telephones

As people moved west they wanted faster ____ across the nation

• communication

• horses

• cars

• rockets

The _____ industry was started to speed up the mail.

• telephone

• oil

• Comcast

• Pony Express

The ____ soon replaced the Pony Express for sending messages

• train

• telegraph

• airplane

• stagecoach

____ machines send pictures by telephone.

• fascimilie

• computer

• radio

• satellite

Communication and ____ have developed together in America.

• radios

• cars

• satellites

• transportation

After which war did newspapers first become popular?

• Civil War

• War of 1812

• Revolutionary War

• WWII

Before post offices were established, the ______ gave letters to the post rider.

• innkeepers

• mailmen

• judge

• cobbler

The _____ usually does not regulate or check on what is printed in newspapers or what is broadcast on television.

• government

• pastors

• military

• storekeepers

Who improved mail service; started a newspaper, a magazine, and a library

• George Washington

• Granville Woods

• James Madison

• Benjamin Franklin