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Grade 4 Industrialization
What subject did George Washington Carver study at Iowa State Agricultural College?
  1. art
  2. botony
  3. chemistry
  4. mathematics
Grade 4 Industrialization
George Washington Carver was both the first African American student and later the first African American faculty member at Iowa State.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Industrialization
Inventions like the cotton gin led to the                      
  1. Industrial Revolution
  2. Civil War
  3. Manifest Destiny
Grade 4 Industrialization
Eli Whitney invented a machine called the
  1. cotton boil.
  2. telegraph.
  3. cotton gin.
  4. telephone.
Grade 4 Industrialization
What invention is attributed to Alexander Graham Bell?
  1. light bulb
  2. electricity
  3. television
  4. telephone
Grade 4 Industrialization

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What is a labor union?
  1. A group of people who work together and are on a golf team together.
  2. A group of workers who want to work more hours.
  3. A workers' group than helps run a company.
  4. A workers' group that fights for better working conditions and pay.
Grade 4 Industrialization
To encourage the Transcontinental Railroad to be built as quickly as possible, the government made it into a race between two different building companies.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Industrialization
The Titanic was luxury ocean liner that was advertised to be the safest ship of its time and was said to be "             unsinkable             ".
Grade 4 Industrialization
George Washington Carver believed his teaching at the Tuskegee Institute was very important because it helped poor people to be able to grow more food for themselves.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Industrialization
Mark all that is true about George Washington Carver.
  1. He was not allowed to go to school as a young child because the school was for white children only.
  2. He was born a free person.
  3. Even as a child he was very good with plants.
  4. He owned a sod house in Kansas as a homesteader.
  5. He originally wanted to be a professional painter.
  6. He was famous for working with pineapples.
Grade 4 Industrialization
Mark 3 things that are true about Orville and Wilbur Wright.
  1. They loved building things together since they were children.
  2. They owned a car shop together.
  3. They wanted to build a glider that could be controlled well.
  4. They were the first people to have a plane take off under its own power, fly through the air, and land under the control of a pilot.
  5. They had no other interests besides flying.
Grade 4 Industrialization
Only Marie Curie's husband, Pierre, received a Nobel Peace Prize for the work they had done together.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Industrialization
Mark 3 things that are true about Alexander Graham Bell.
  1. He invented the telephone.
  2. He had over 14 children.
  3. He was a teacher in a school for the deaf.
  4. He worked for the president.
  5. Thomas Watson was his assistant.
Grade 4 Industrialization
How did labor unions make their employers consider their demands for improvement?
  1. They had a party to celebrate.
  2. They didn't make any demands for improvement.
  3. They had a friendly chat with the employers.
  4. They had a strike- workers refused to work.
Grade 4 Industrialization
What important changes in farming occurred in the 1800's?
  1. crop rotation
  2. increase use of horses
  3. new technology
  4. All of the above
Grade 4 Industrialization
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Grade 4 Industrialization
Mark 4 things that are true about Amelia Earhart.
  1. She was trained as a nurse & liked to help wounded soldiers.
  2. She was one of the few women in the world with a pilot's license during her time.
  3. She was the first person to fly around the world.
  4. She set a record for flying higher than any other woman in 1922.
  5. She owned 12 planes and was very rich.
  6. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Grade 4 Industrialization
Name one of the two crops that George Washington Carver was most famous for working with.
Grade 4 Industrialization
Thomas Edison's company opened a power plant in New York City and in 1892 they formed the General Electric Company.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Industrialization
Give two reasons why some workers formed labor unions.
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