6th grade History T10 P2 L117

Standard time was instituted by _____ in the United States.

• schools

• water tides

• factories

• railroads

_______ led the first successful expedition to the North Pole.

• Neil Armstrong

• Matthew Henson

• Robert Peary

• Charles Darwin

The life expectancy of men in the 1900s was ____ than it is today.

• longer

• shorter

• the same

A British naturalist who rejected the Scriptures and developed the theory of evolution was ______.

• Billy Sunday

• George Washington Carver

• Charles Darwin

• Gypsy Smith

_______ was the famous railroad engineer who died while trying to save his passengers.

• Robert Peary

• Casey Jones

• Billy Sunday

• Matthew Henson

Who wrote several books refuting the theory of evolution?

• Gypsy Smith

• Dr. Henry Rimmer

• Charles Darwin

• William McKinley

Who was the president of the United States during World War I?

• Woodrow Wilson

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama

The action which proved that Germany was a threat to the United States as well as to Europe was _____.

• the invasion of Belgium by Germany

• the sinking of the Lusitania

• the sending of the Zimmerman note

• the bombing of Ohio

Which was the "unsinkable" ocean liner that sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912?

• Mayflower

• Santa Maria

• Lusitania

• Titanic

The countries that sided with Germany in World War I were called the _______.

• Allied Powers

• Allies

• Central Powers

• Neutral Powers