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Unit 3 Test (Chapters 5 & 6) 35 pts. ANSWER KEY

Directions: Please choose the correct answer and circle it. (2 pts. each)

1. What is the definition of transportation?

a. A machine that turns steam into power.
b. A track with two steels rails on which trains move.
c. The way people or things are carried from place to place.
d. Things that people buy or sell.

2. Who built the first steam engine?

a. George Stevenson
b. James W. Marshall
c. Robert Fulton
d. Samuel Morse

3. A railroad is a track with two steel rains on which trains move. How did
railroads change the way people traveled in the 1800's?
a. It made it harder for people to travel distances.
b. Railroads had little impact on the eastward and westward expansion.

c. Railroads made it easier for people to travel and transport goods and services.
d. There was no change.

4. Which of the following was NOT a reason people traveled to St. Louis?
a. To sell goods at the trading post
b. To find work or a new place to live
c. To escape the strict laws in the Eastern United States
d. To buy supplies for the journey Westward

5. If one inch is equivalent to 50 miles, and you plan to travel to a city that reads 5
inches away from your home town, how many miles will you travel?
a. 250 miles
b. 100 miles
c. 150 miles
d. 200 miles
6. Where was the first stop for many Asian immigrants coming into California in
the early 1900's?
a. Angel Island
b. Arvik City
c. California Island
d. Ellis Island

7. Which country has never owned California?

a. France
b. Mexico

c. Spain
d. The United States of America

8. What was discovered in California that lead to a "rush"?

a. Coal
b. Gold
c. Marble
d. Salt

9. What year was gold discovered in California?

a. 1776
b. 1848
c. 1900
d. 2004

10. Where did immigrants come from who landed in Ellis Island?
a. Asia
b. Europe
c. Canada
d. USA

11. Use the following map to complete the following (1pt. per correct label):
1) Color in the State of Missouri
2) Label the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
3) Label St. Louis

Missouri River

St. Louis

12. In 2 to 3 sentences, explain what lesson you liked best throughout the entire
unit. Explain why you chose this lesson/topic. (2 pts.)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct answer with the word from the word
bank. Some words may be used more than once. (1pt. for each blank)

WORD BANK

telegraph
steam engines

communicate
railroad

immigrate

map region
ancestor

generation

Now that people travel farther and faster across the country thanks to the railroad,
which used trains powered by steam engines, they needed a way to communicate
across such long distances more efficiently. This led to the invention of the
telegraph. The telegraph and the railroad united our country!

Someone who is part of your generation is someone who was born and lives
around the same time as you. Your grandmother would be an example of an
ancestor.
An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable
characteristics but not always fixed boundaries is a map region.
When you immigrate to a new country, you leave your old country and move to a
new one.