Monday, November 10, 2008

Test Wednesday!!

We played jeopardy in class today to review for our test. Below are some of the jeopardy questions that students will see on their test tomorrow. In addition to this, students can study their Skills Agenda 4 and Skills Agenda 5, everything on Inventors and Immigrants.

Jeopardy Review: Also study everything listed on Skills Agenda 4 and the beginning of Skills Agenda 5
A Changing Culture:
100: Why were there more girls enrolled in school during this time period than boys?
200: What is a spectator sport?
300: What is a land-grant college? Page 598
400: What is realism? Page 600
500: What were Native Americans taught at Native American or Reservation school? Page 600 (English, how to dress like a white person, trained for jobs in industrial world)
Inventions:
100: Samuel Morse invented the ____________.
200: George Eastman invented the ____________.
300: John Thurman invented the ________________.
400: Who invented the transformer?
500: page 566, Companies at this time also had “inventions”, one of which was the _____________ that companies like Sears & Roebuck and Montgomery Ward used to promote their products.
Inventors:
100: Who invented the telephone?
200: Who invented the typewriter?
300: Who improved the telegraph system?
400: Who is the African American inventor who was an electrical mechanical engineer from Ohio who invented the electric incubator?
500: What was 1 of the processes that improved steel-making? (either Bessemer Process or open-hearth process)
Inventors & Inventions
100: What 2 things make Henry Ford famous?
200: Who was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park?
300: Who invented the shoe-making machine that performed tasks formerly done by hand?
400: Who was the scientist from the Tuskegee Institute who developed many products from peanuts?
500: Name 2 inventors and their inventions that helped improve the railroads.
Immigrants
100: Why were people leaving their homelands during this time?
200: Many people ___________, or left their homeland, because of economic troubles.
300: What were the names of the 2 places where immigrants were “checking in” to our country?
400: What does it mean to assimilate?
500: Who is the American poet who wrote what is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
Problems with Immigration
100: What was hard about the trip to America? (2 things)
200: What were tenements?
300: What were sweatshops?
400: What is “The Gilded Age”?
500: Page 584: What were 3 of the 4 things that immigrants had to do to “check in” to our country?

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