WWI_WII Test

In Mr. Blau's timeline of U.S. history, around what year did Amerigo Vespucci "discover" the Americas?

• 1500

• 1607

• 1436

• 1588

In Mr. Blau's timeline of U.S. history, in the year 1776, what did the American colonists do?

• Founded their first settlements in Jamestown

• Declare their Independence

• Throw tea off boats in Boston

• Have a Civil War

In Mr. Blau's timeline of U.S. history, did the Wright brothers perfect flying before or after the start of WWI?

• After

• Before

In Mr. Blau's timeline of U.S. history, THIS year and THIS Amendment to the Constitution started collecting income taxes from its citizens.

• 1910, 16th

• 1918, 20th

• 1913, 19th

• 1917, 20th

• 1913, 16th

an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders

• Pony Express

• Kentucky Derby

• Western Union

• Pony Mail

a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.

• telephone

• telegraph

• morse code

• pony express

Henry Ford created THIS form of work to help build his car.

• 8 hour work week

• assembly line

• safety regulations on machines

• Model A way

This is a person who has created a solution for a problem that society doesn't know they have.

• infomercial

• detente

• entrepreneurs

• assembly line

a sweatshop is a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

• True

• False

THIS inventor made great advances in developing a device for transmitting speech - the telephpone.

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

• John D Rockefeller