Transportation Over Time

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Communication Over Time

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Inventions over time

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Medicine Improves over

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Double or Nothing

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Lesson 1

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What is one reason that new communities grew in the west?

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Lewis Clark told interesting stories about the West.

10Category 1

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Who developed and improved steam engines?

20Category 1

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James Watt and Richard Trevithick

20Category 1

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Why was mail delivered more quickly starting in 1860 than it had been in before?

30Category 1

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A group business people set up the pony express

30Category 1

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How was travel different in 1970 than it was in 1830?

40Category 1

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• There were over 250,000 more miles of railroad track than in 1830.

• People could now travel by car

40Category 1

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What effect did improvements in transportation have on communities in the United States?

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• People and goods moved more quickly than they had in the past.

• People moved west and more of the country became settled

50Category 1

Lesson 2

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Who invented the postal service?

10Category 2

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Benjamin Franklin

10Category 2

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What technology sent voices through wires?

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Telephone

20Category 2

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Which inventor used a special tube to build a television?

30Category 2

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A.A. Cambell Swinton

30Category 2

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Who invented a way to send and receive signals through a thin wire?

40Category 2

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Samuel Morse

40Category 2

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What event happened first? The invention of the telegraph or the invention of the telephone?

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The telegraph was invented in 1837 and the telephone was invented in 1876.

50Category 2

Lesson 3

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What did George Eastman invent?

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He invented a camera that everyone can use to take pictures.

10Category 3

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What did Cyrus Hall McCormick invent to make farming easier?

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Reaper

20Category 3

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What is an accomplishment of Lewis Latimer?

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• He did special drawings of a telephone.• He worked on lamps and light bulbs with Edison.• He helped many cities light their communities.

30Category 3

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Who invented the daguerreotype?

40Category 3

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Louis Daguerre

40Category 3

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How did the invention of the light bulb change the way people lived?

50Category 3

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• Less danger from fire caused by candles burning at night

• Businesses and factories could stay open longer, people could see better at night

50Category 3

Lesson 4

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Why is Louis Pasteur and important scientist around the world?

10Category 4

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He made milk safe for people to drink

10Category 4

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Who invented the Polio vaccine and why is it important?

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Jonas Salk and the vaccine saved the lives of many people

20Category 4

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What is an accomplishment of Gertrude Elion?

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• She helped treat people who has leukemia and malaria

• She figured out how to make medicine to attack diseased cells

• She won a Nobel prize for her work in medicine

30Category 4

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40Category 4

Who found a way to protect people from smallpox?

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Edward Jenner

40Category 4

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Why would a school require children to have vaccinations?

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The schools want to protect children’s health. It does not want sick children spreading disease.

50Category 4

Double or Nothing questions follow

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How did James Watt and Richard Trevithick change the way people traveled?

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Their inventions led to the creation of the steam locomotive and the building of railroads.

20Category 5

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How do today’s televisions sets compare to early television sets?

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Similar: They both show moving pictures with sound. The both convey information and entertainmentDifferent: Early screens had only black-and-white pictures. Now pictures are in color.

40Category 5

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What caused the post office to begin using the transcontinental railroad?

60Category 5

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It as faster and safer.

60Category 5

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Why do you think the reaper was pulled by a horse?

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It was too heavy to be pulled by a person, and the gas-powered engine had not been invented.

80Category 5

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What idea did Pasteur have that changed the lives of people in communities over time? How did this idea change their lives.

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The idea that some diseases are caused by germs.

By keeping certain germs out of peoples bodies, people became healthier.

100Category 5