Font size
WorksheetsChapter 6 Test A — A Growing Nation
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Choose the best answer. What was the fastest way to travel across the country in 1869 ?
By boat
By wagon train
By airplane
By railroad
Choose the best answer. Congress built the National Road to make it easier for people to travel west. Why did people want to move west?
They wanted to live in big cities with large populations.
They wanted the chance to get land they could farm.
They wanted to take vacations and see the sights.
They were given money by Congress to move.
Choose the best answer. The money collected from toll roads in the 1800 s helped pay for —
building and fixing roads
automobiles and buses
schools and hospitals
locomotives and railway lines
Look at the map. Then answer the question. Choose the best answer. In the early 1800 s, the route shown on the map was known as —
the Lewis and Clark Trail
the National Road
the Oregon Trail
the Erie Canal
Choose the best answer. Whose work in the early 1900 s made it easier for people to later travel all over the world?
Lewis and Clark
The Wright brothers
Henry Ford
Guglielmo Marconi
Choose the best answer. Which well-known New York City structure did the German immigrant John Roebling build?
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Chrysler Building
The Statue of Liberty
The Empire State Building
Choose the best answer. Why was it easier to explore North America after the Spanish arrived?
Because they built canals, which made traveling by boat faster
Because they brought horses, which made travel easier and faster
Because they built the transcontinental railroad, which made travel faster
Because they built the National Road from Maryland to Illinois
Choose the best answer. How did Daniel Boone help to create new communities?
He passed the Homestead Act, which gave Americans the chance to buy cheap land on the frontier.
He explored the Mississippi River, which helped settlers travel and set up communities in the West.
He helped build the transcontinental railroad, making it easier to travel from Nebraska to California.
He helped widen the Cumberland Gap, allowing wagons and settlers to travel beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
Choose the best answer. Why did immigrants from China form their own communities during the gold rush in California?
To meet their need for financial well-being
To protect themselves from the Chinese government
To become a new state in the United States of America
To exclude other immigrants from taking too many jobs
Choose the best answer. Why were homesteaders who bought land through the Homestead Act required to build a house and live on the land for five years?
A house made the land more attractive.
People needed time to settle into communities.
The land would be worthless without a house.
Crops took a long time to grow and harvest.
Choose the best answer. How did the Pony Express improve the way people communicated?
The Pony Express carried more travelers to the West Coast than wagon trains.
The Pony Express riders spoke better English than wagon train drivers.
The Pony Express delivered mail to the West Coast faster.
The Pony Express was faster at sending messages than the telegraph.
Choose the best answer. In 1876 , Alexander Graham Bell developed a machine that —
carried print messages over a thin wire
sent messages through the air
carried a human voice over a thin wire
played music through a speaker
Look at the chart. Then answer the question. Choose the best answer. The dots and dashes in the chart, which represent letters and numbers, are called —
the Morse code
the braille alphabet
the Cherokee alphabet
degrees of latitude and longitude
Choose the best answer. How did Guglielmo Marconi change communications technology in 1896 ?
He invented a way for people to talk to each other over a wire.
He invented a machine that sent coded messages over a wire.
He invented a way to send pictures without using wires.
He invented a way to send messages without using wires.
Choose the best answer. In which order were these communication tools invented?
Telephone, radio, telegraph, television
Telegraph, telephone, radio, television
Telephone, telegraph, radio, television
Telegraph, radio, telephone, television
How did Jonas Salk affect the lives of people all over the world?
He saved many people from getting sick by inventing a way to kill germs in foods.
He saved the lives of many people by inventing a vaccine to fight off smallpox.
He changed the way people communicate by inventing the first computer.
He saved the lives of many people by inventing a vaccine to fight off the polio virus.
Why do people immigrate to the United States of America?
How did Sacagawea help Lewis and Clark as they explored the West?
How did the pasts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman affect how they viewed human rights?
Henry Ford invented a new way of making cars by using an assembly line. Why was this a better way to make cars?
