Chapter 5 Social Studies: Our History Through Time and Space

What did the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demonstrate?

• Communities need continuity

• People change their community over time

• Changes in a community usually happen slowly

• Changes in a community can happen very fast

Who was known as "the Father of Railways" after he developed train engine?

• George Stephenson

• Elisha Otis

• William Jenney

• Samuel Morse

How do inventors make changes to the community?

• They write slogans to get their message 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 Alexander 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

10 years

• decade

• civilization

• democracy

• empire

the tools that people use everyday

• suffrage

• modern

• technology

• republic

a government in which citizens choose government leaders who make decisions

• empire

• republic

• civilization

• democracy

the times we live in today

• suffrage

• civilization

• decade

• modern

the right to vote

• suffrage

• technology

• republic

• modern