Thursday, October 2, 2008

TEST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!

The Transportation Test is tomorrow!! All students should be studying their notes, in-class handouts/activities, homework, etc.
Also, below is a list of things to study from that material...

What to study for my Transportation Test tomorrow!
All notes, all homework, all handouts…everything in my Social Studies notebook/journal.

• Why were people out west before trains?
• Why did miners need better/more transportation?
• Subsidies:
• How did some cities get RR’s to come to them?
• Promontory Point, UT; Leland Stanford
• What industries were boosted by RR’s?
• After miners who came west?
• Describe a Ranchers life, how was it hard?
• Open range; vaquero; longhorns
• What did ranchers wear?
• What was hard about being a plains farmer?
• 1st TCRR: when completed?
• 1st Model T: when, who, where, how much $?
• First streets?
• How did bridges change lives?
• First flight: when, where, who?
• Why was Kitty Hawk chosen for the first flight?
• When were planes first used in combat?
• Red Baron; Eddie Rickenbacker
• Street cars; trolley cars; subways: when & where
• What industries were boosted by the automobile industries?
• Black Thursday
• Who attacked Pearl Harbor? When?
• U-boats: who used them first? During what war?
• Tanks: who used them first? During what war?
• How did planes change from WWI to WWII?
• When and where was the first atomic bomb dropped? What was the name of the plan that dropped the atomic bomb?
• What was the Federal Highway act? Who was the President that enacted this?
• How did factories change their production during WWII?
• NASA; Sputnik; Vanguard
• Why did suburban families need cars?
• What was “Flopnik”?
• How did the helicopter help the war in Vietnam?

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