Chapter 6: Lesson 3 New Ways to Communicate

to pass thoughts or information to others

• communicate

• gossip

• whisper

• speak

something that is made for the first time

• invention

• recipe

• instructions

• initiative

gives a person a right to be the only one making or selling an invention

• patent

• copyright

• trademark

• invention

a machine that sends and receives signals through a thin wire

• telegraph

• antenna

• satelite

• telephone

to stand for

• represent

• algebra

• introduce

• patent

to use for the first time

• introduce

• conclude

• telegraph

• attempt

In the early 1800's, it could take three weeks to two months to send a letter. How were the letters being sent?

• by horseback or wagon train

• airplanes

• cargo ships and river boats

• bicycles and fast runners

In 1860, people set up a system for delivering mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. What was that system called?

• Pony Express

• US Postal Service

• R&R Railroad

• Rumpke

With the new Pony Express system, how fast did mail travel across the country?

• 10 days

• 10 months

• 1 day

• 1 month

Who invented the telegraph in 1832?

• Samuel Morse

• Samuel Adams

• Stanley Morse

• Stanley Adams