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38 Cards in this Set
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What was the main form of communication in colonial times?
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Word of mouth
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What was the main form of major transportation for the first colonists?
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Water
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Who carried the mail in colonial times?
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Post riders
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True or False: Communication was improved as transportation progressed.
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True
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Who built the first roads and how were they funded?
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Private companies built them and collected tolls.
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After the Revolutionary War, travel increased. Where did the people travel too?
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The West
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What was the mode of transportation for those who traveled to California in the 1840s?
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Stagecoaches and covered wagons.
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After the Civil War, what form of transportation replaced stagecoaches?
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Railroads
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What form of transportation carries most mail and passengers today?
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Airplanes
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Why did steamships replace sailing ships on the oceans?
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Because they were faster.
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What grew as transportation improved?
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Cities
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What problems has progress in transportation created?
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Air pollution, accidents, need for more oil.
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True or False: Progress in transportation and communication has not made any difference in the spreading of the Gospel.
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False
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Give examples of how progress in transportation and communication has made a difference in the spreading of the Gospel.
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1. Preachers began to travel town to town.
2. People could hear preachers on the radio. 3. People could see sermons given by preachers thousands of miles away by watching the TV. |
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True or False: Inventors usually work alone.
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False
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True or False: God has blessed America with great natural resources.
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True
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Who invented the steamboat?
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Robert Fulton
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What did the Duryea Brothers invent?
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The first automobile
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Who invented the first airplane?
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The Wright Brothers
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What was Henry Ford famous for inventing?
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The Model T
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What three things was Ben Franklin famous for starting?
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A newspaper
A magazine A library |
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Who invented the first telegraph?
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Samuel Morse
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What did Alexander G. Bell invent?
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The first telephone
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Who invented the first wireless?
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Guiglielmo Marconi
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What did John Fitch invent?
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A boat powered by a steam engine.
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What did Lee DeForest invent?
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A tube for the radio
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List the five stages (in order!) of the development of mail delivery in America
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1. Post riders
2. Stagecoaches 3. Pony Express 4. Railroads 5. Airplanes |
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List the five stages (in order!) of the development of electronic communication.
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1. Telegraph
2. Telephone 3. Radio 4. Television 5. Communication Satellite |
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What is the most important thing you learn from a story?
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The Main Idea
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Look over the lesson on cause and effect.
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Do it!
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Re-read "A Lesson in Faith" and be prepared to put events in order.
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Hey! The story isn't on this side of the card! Get to the computer man!
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True or false: the author's purpose in writing "The Hobby of Stamp Collecting" is to show that people collect stamps for different reasons.
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True
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Does a well written paragraph have many main ideas?
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No. What, are you new here??
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What is the one thing a good story MUST have?
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A purpose
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List the four purposes for writing.
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1. To inform
2. To enertain 3. To show strong feelings 4. To instruct |
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In the sentence "I ran as fast as lightening", what is the figure of speech?
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"ran as fast as lightening"
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In the sentence "I was scared to death when I saw the bat", what is the figure of speech?
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"scared to death"
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Review capitalization and punctuation.
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Need to know capitalization and punctuation for:
Dates Names Addresses |
