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TCS 6 History Test Ch 10
Mr. Stringer
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History
6th Grade
02/07/2012

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Invention - Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney
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Invention - Mechanical Reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Invention - Steamboat
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Robert Fulton
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Invention - Telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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Invention - Telephone
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Alexander Graham
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Invention - Electric Light Bulb
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Thomas Edison
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Invention - Airplane
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Wright Brothers
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Invention - Automobile Assembly Line
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Henry Ford
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Invention - Liquid Fuel Rocket
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Robert Goddard
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Invention - Gas Mask
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Garrett Morgan
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The law which gave 160 acres of land to families settling parts of the west was the.....
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Homestead Act
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Sections of land set aside by the government for Indian tribes are called....
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Reservations
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One of the greatest land rushes was in what is now the state of....
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Oklahoma
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A person who leaves his own country to make his home in another is an .....
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Immigrant
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John D Rockefeller organized America's ....
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Oil industry
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The steel industry was brought to America by....
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Andrew Carnegie
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The man who developed the assembly line method of production was...
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Henry Ford
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The system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph is called ....
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Morse code
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Russian America eventually became the state of....
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Alaska
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"Remember the Maine!" became the slogan during the ....
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Spanish-American War
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The leader of the Rough Riders was....
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The territory that became our 50th state was....
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Hawaii
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The first battle of the Civil War began at ................ in 1861.
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Ft. Sumter
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One of the most famous leaders of the underground Railroad was....
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Harriet Tubman
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The Union's ironclad ship was the ......
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Monitor
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What was one immediate result of the Emancipation Proclamation
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There was no longer any chance that England would help the South.
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The general who became commander of all Union armies in 1864 was....
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Ulysses S Grant
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The turning point of the Civil War was the .....
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Why was the Battle of Vicksburg important?
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The Union cut Confederates in two by gaining control of the Mississippi
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William T Sherman's "march to the sea" hastened.....
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the end of the war
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Richmond, Virginia was the....
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captial of the Confederate states
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Jefferson Davis was....
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president of the Confederacy
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Lee surrendered to Grant at ....
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Appomatttox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865
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Abraham Lincoln was the....
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16th President of the United States
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John Wilkes Booth is remembered for....
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shooting President Lincoln
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The Pony Express carried mail across the United States quickly in 1860....
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for 19 months
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Clara Barton is best remembered for founding the
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American Red Cross
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D L Moody was America's most famous....
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evangelist during the 19th century
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Tuskegee Institute was founded by ....
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Booker T Washington
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George Washington Carver's lab was know as....
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"God's little workshop"
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Two crops that became important to the economy of the South were....
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cotton and tobacco
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People who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery were called....
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abolitionists
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The system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid 1800's to help slaves flee to freedom was called the....
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Underground Railroad
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A decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument is called a ....
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compromise
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The southern states that left the Union formed their own nation, the ....
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Confederate States of America
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