History Quiz

Choose the best answer. _____ built and successfully flew the first airplane.

• Alvin York

• Nikolai Tesla

• The Wright Brothers

Choose the best answer. _____ created the first commercially practical light bulb.

• Alvin York

• Thomas Edison

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

Match the individual with his contribution.

• Woodrow Wilson followed Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States

• William Howard Taft founder of the Bull Moose (Progressive) Party

• Theodore Roosevelt followed Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States

Choose the best answer. Electrification was an important _______ advance during the Progressive Era.

• military

• financial

• technological

• economical

Choose the best answer. The ___ explosion was an act of German sabotage that destroyed two million pounds of ammunition.

• Liberty Island

• Trade Center

• West Point

• Black Tom

Choose the best answer. By perfecting mass-production techniques, ___ was able to sell his Model-T automobile at a price most Americans could afford.

• Ferdinand Porsche

• Horace Dodge

• John DeLorean

• Henry Ford

Regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and _____ were important tenets of Progressivism.

• military power

• public welfare

• foreign policy

The _____ Campaign was a three-pronged attack that brought World War I to an end.

• Meuse-Argonne

• Bolshevik

• Ypres

Choose the best answer. The ___ Act created a banking system to assist commerce and to issue paper currency.

• National Liquidity

• Federal Reserve

• Third National Bank

• Bank Oversight

Choose the best answer. ___ is a policy of extending control over another country through colonization or conquest.

• Diplomacy

• Imperialism

• Capitalism