Social Studies: Chapter 5

What did the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demonstrate?

• communities need continuity

• people change their community over time

• changes in the community usually happen slowly

• changes in a community can happen very fast

How do inventors make changes to the community?

• They write slogans to get their messages across

• They lay railroad tracks to connect communities.

• They come up with new ideas to improve the way people live and work.

• They lead peaceful marches against unfair laws.

What do the telegraph and the telephone have in common?

• They were both invented by Graham Bell.

• They were both invented to speed up communication.

• They were both invented in the 1900s

• They were both invented to replace written communication.

How did Ford's Model T cars change transportation?

• They were the first automobiles.

• They were one-of-a-kind.

• They led to the invention of the airplane.

• They made it possible for more people to buy cars.

Which civilization invented paper and printing?

• ancient China

• ancient Greece

• ancient Rome

• ancient Egypt

Which civilization was the first republic?

• ancient Rome

• ancient China

• ancient Egypt

• ancient Greece

Choose the correct term on the blank line.

10 years

• civilization

• decade

• democracy

• empire

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a large group of people living in a well-organized way

• civilization

• decade

• democracy

• empire

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all the land and people under the control of a powerful nation.

• civilization

• decade

• democracy

• empire

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type of government in which citizens make the decisions

• civilization

• decade

• democracy

• empire