Questions on U.S History?

Question

1. Who invented the telephone?
2. Who was known as the wizard of Menlo Park?
3. What was the most expensive way to travel?
4. Where was the first switchboard located?
5. Why were buffalo destroyed?
6. During the post- reconstruction period, what was the worst feature of life for African Americans?
7. Who had his last stand at the Battle of little Big Horn?
8. True or False: In the 1800's, there was no segregation in the North?
9. In the late 1800's, What was the most popular place for working people to gather?
10. Which country gave the U.S the Statue of liberty?

Answer 1

1. Alexander Graham Bell
2. Thomas Edison
3.
4. Lexington, Mass.
5. Overhunting for sport
6. Jim Crow Laws
7. General George Armstrong Custer
8. False
9.
10. France

Answer 2

1. Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell

2. Who was known as the wizard of Menlo Park? Thomas Edison

3. What was the most expensive way to travel? When?

4. Where was the first switchboard located? New Jersey, I think.

5. Why were buffalo destroyed? Buffalo are still alive.

6. During the post- reconstruction period, what was the worst feature of life for African Americans? This is a subjective question. Maybe: the threat of lynching? The fact that they couldn't get good jobs?

7. Who had his last stand at the Battle of little Big Horn? Custer

8. True or False: In the 1800's, there was no segregation in the North? False.

9. In the late 1800's, What was the most popular place for working people to gather? Probably same as today: a bar.

10. Which country gave the U.S the Statue of liberty? France

Answer 3

1. Who invented the telephone? Al Gore
2. Who was known as the wizard of Menlo Park? Al Gore
3. What was the most expensive way to travel? Ask Al Gore
4. Where was the first switchboard located? Tennessee
5. Why were buffalo destroyed? Because of Al Gore
6. During the post- reconstruction period, what was the worst feature of life for African Americans? Knowing one day Al Gore would be born.
7. Who had his last stand at the Battle of little Big Horn? Al Gore
8. True or False: In the 1800's, there was no segregation in the North? Al Gore
9. In the late 1800's, What was the most popular place for working people to gather? Tennessee
10. Which country gave the U.S the Statue of liberty? Tennessee

Al Gore invented everything and he has been alive in every major era. He is the one who makes everything possibly. At least this is what Al Gore thinks anyways.

Answer 4

1)Credit for inventing the electric telephone remains in dispute. Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray

2)Thomas Alva Edison

3)by ship

4)Lexington, Massachusetts

5)they hunted the Buffalo out for two reasons for their hides and the government knew that if the were gone so were the natives that survived on them

6) that they still had no rights

7)Custer

8)false in fact read some of Abraham Lincoln speeches

9) the pub or brothel

10) France

Answer 5

1. Alexander Gram Bell
2. Thomas Edison
3. Airplane
4. idk
5. Overhunting by Indians and Buffalo were killed as a sport by men traveling in trains through the plains.
6. Severe violence toward all african americans.
7. General Custard
8. False
9. drug store
10. France

Answer 6

1. Alexandar Graham Bell
2. Dont know
3. Plane
4 Not sure
5. For Meat and their Hyde
6. Slavery?
7. Custard
8. True
9. Church or The courthouse (just a guess)
10. France

Answer 7

> 1. Who invented the telephone?

There is no simple answer.

"Credit for inventing the electric telephone remains in dispute. Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, amongst others, have all been credited with the invention."

"Telephone : History" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone#History

"- 1849 Antonio Meucci demonstrates a device later called a telephone to individuals in Havana. (It is disputed if this is an electric telephone, but is said to involve direct transmission into the body.)
- 1854 Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make-break telephone transmitter and receiver but does not construct a working instrument.
- 1854 Antonio Meucci demonstrates an electric voice operated device in New York, but it is not clear what kind of device he demonstrated.
- 1860 Johann Philipp Reis demonstrates a make-break transmitter after the design of Bourseul and a knitting needle receiver. Witnesses said they heard human voices being transmitted.
- 1861 The German Philipp Reis manages to transfer voice electrically over a distance of 340 feet, see Reis' telephone.
- 1864 In an attempt to give his musical automaton a voice, Innocenzo Manzetti invents the 'Speaking telegraph'. He shows no interest in patenting his device, but it is reported in newspapers.
- 1865 Meucci reads of Manzetti's invention and writes to the editors of two newspapers claiming priority and quoting his first experiment in 1849. He writes "I do not wish to deny Mr. Manzetti his invention, I only wish to observe that two thoughts could be found to contain the same discovery, and that by uniting the two ideas one can more easily reach the certainty about a thing this important." If he reads Meucci's offer of collaboration, Manzetti does not respond.
- 1871 Antonio Meucci files a patent caveat (a statement of intention to patent).
- 1872 Elisha Gray founds Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
- 1872 Prof Vanderwyde demonstrated Reis's telephone in New York.
- July 1873 Thomas Edison notes variable resistance in carbon grains due to pressure, builds a rheostat based on the principle but abandons it because of its sensitivity to vibration.
- May 1874 Gray invents electromagnet device for transmitting musical tones. Some of his receivers use a metallic diaphragm.
- December 29, 1874 Gray demonstrates his musical tones device and transmitted "familiar melodies through telegraph wire" at the Presbyterian Church in Highland Park, Illinois.
- 1875-06-02 Alexander Graham Bell transmits the sound of a plucked steel reed using electromagnet instruments.
- 1875-07-01 Bell uses a bi-directional "gallows" telephone that was able to transmit "indistinct but voicelike sounds" but not clear speech. Both the transmitter and the receiver were identical membrane electromagnet instruments.
- 1875 Thomas Edison experiments with acoustic telegraphy and in November builds an electro-dynamic receiver but does not exploit it.
- 1876-02-11 Elisha Gray invents liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but does not build one.
- 1876-02-14 (about 9:30 am) Gray or his lawyer brings to the Patent Office Gray's caveat for the telephone. (A caveat was like a patent application without claims to notify the patent office of an invention in process.)
- 1876-02-14 (about 11:30am) Bell's lawyer brings to the Patent Office Bell's patent application for the telephone. Bell's lawyer requested that it be registered immediately in the cash receipts blotter.
Two hours later Elisha Gray's caveat was registered in the cash blotter. Although his caveat was not a full application, Gray could have converted it into a patent application, but did not do so because of advice from his lawyer and involvement with acoustic telegraphy. The result was that the patent was awarded to Bell. [1]
- 1876-03-07 Bell's US patent 174,465 for the telephone is granted.
- 1876-03-10 Bell transmits speech "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." using a liquid transmitter described in Gray's caveat and an electromagnetic receiver described in Gray's July 1875 US patent 166,095.
- 1876-05-16 Thomas Edison files first patent application for acoustic telegraphy for which US patent 182,996 was granted October 10, 1876."

"Timeline of the telephone" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone

> 3. What was the most expensive way to travel?

Probably by train in a private car.

> 4. Where was the first switchboard located?

"The first telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878. The switchboard was built from "carriage bolts, handles from teapot lids and bustle wire" and could handle two simultaneous conversations."

"Telephone exchange : Historic perspective" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange#Historic_perspective

> 6. During the post- reconstruction period, what was the worst feature of life for African Americans?

Probably the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws.

Check these answers yourself! Use Wikipedia, for instance, or why not your textbook, just for the hell of it.

Answer 8

U don't know these answers? You need to study history, isn't studing one of the reasons you have a computer? Why don't you hit the books!

Answer 9

Tell ya what, send me the textbook that you seem to have refused to read, I'll read it and get back to you with the answers. Make sure you include 5.95 to cover shipping/handling and a $500. fee for me to do your homework assignment for you.

Answer 10

1) Although Alexander Graham Bell is considered the inventor of the telephone in the USA, Canada, and Scotland, other countries that had no historical affiliation with him tend to look for possible inventors of their own ethnic background or their own country as THE inventor of the telephone.