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Chapter 6 Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the correct definition


transcontinental

a)

a waterway that is dug by people

b)

across a continent

c)

a machine that sends and receives

signals through a thin wire

d)

helps people’s bodies fight off disease

2.

Choose the correct definition


canal

a)

a machine that sends and receives

signals through a thin wire

b)

an area of land that includes a house

and its buildings

c)

helps people’s bodies fight off disease

d)

a waterway that is dug by people

3.

Choose the correct definition


telegraph

a)

an area of land that includes a house

and its buildings

b)

helps people’s bodies fight off disease

c)

a machine that sends and receives

signals through a thin wire

d)

across a continent

4.

Choose the correct definition


vaccine

a)

across a continent

b)

a machine that sends and receives

signals through a thin wire

c)

an area of land that includes a house

and its buildings

d)

helps people’s bodies fight off disease

5.

Choose the correct definition


homestead

a)

a machine that sends and receives

signals through a thin wire

b)

helps people’s bodies fight off disease

c)

across a continent

d)

an area of land that includes a house

and its buildings

6.

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

a)

boat

b)

wagon train

c)

airplane

d)

railroad

7.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

Guglielmo Marconi

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Cyrus Hall McCormick

8.

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

a)

They built and fixed roads.

b)

They grew crops for travelers to eat.

c)

They built hotels for travelers.

d)

They saved it for their children

9.

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

travel though the mountains to the American frontier?

a)

Daniel Boone

b)

Zebulon Pike

c)

Davy Crockett

d)

Sacagawea

10.

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

everyone?

a)

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

b)

She opened a school for African American girls.

c)

She freed more than 300 slaves by 1860.

d)

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