Chapter 6 Summary

The ​ (a)   railroad ran from the Mississippi River to the West Coast.

• transcontinental
• vaccine
• immigrant
• communicate

A(n) ​ (a)   is a person who comes to a new country to live.

• vaccine
• immigrant
• communicate
• transcontinental

New ways to ​ (a)   in the 1800s included using telegraphs and telephones.

• vaccine
• communicate
• transcontinental
• immigrant

A(n) ​ (a)   helps people's bodies learn to fight off a disease.

• vaccine
• transcontinental
• immigrant
• communicate

What was Henry Ford's invention or idea, and what category was that in (Science, Business, or Technology)?

Invention: ​ (a)  

Category: ​ (b)  

• Assembly Line
• Business
• Reaper
• Technology
• Science
• Vaccine
• Pasteurization

What was Cyrus McCormicks's invention or idea, and what category was that in (Science, Business, or Technology)?

Invention: ​ (a)  

Category: ​ ​ (b)  

• Reaper
• Technology
• Science
• Vaccine
• Pasteurization
• Business
• Assembly Line

What was Edward Jenner's invention or idea, and what category was that in (Science, Business, or Technology)?

Invention: ​ (a)  

Category: ​ ​ (b)  

• Science
• Vaccine
• Pasteurization
• Business
• Assembly Line
• Reaper
• Technology

What was Louis Pasteur's invention or idea, and what category was that in (Science, Business, or Technology)?

Invention: ​ ​ (a)  

Category: ​ ​ (b)  

• Science
• Pasteurization
• Business
• Assembly Line
• Reaper
• Technology
• Vaccine

How did the Transcontinental Railroad change the United States?

• It made it faster and safer to travel across the country.

• It made the country free from Great Britain.

• It made it easier for people to go back forth from work to home.

• It made it possible for people to take vacations.

What were the common types of jobs Japanese immigrants had when they came to the United States?

• farming & fishing

• construction

• assembly line workers

• art & music