History Quiz

Choose the best answer. The _____ Act created a banking system in 1913 to assist commerce and to issue paper currency.

• Federal Reserve

• Treasury Department

• Freedom

Choose the best answer. A three-pronged attack by the Allied powers, the _____ Campaign, brought World War I to an end.

• Rhine River Valley

• Verdun

• Meuse-Argonne

• Lowland

Sergeant Alvin ______ was awarded the Medal of Honor for killing 28 enemy soldiers while capturing 32 machine guns and 132 German soldiers. Choose the best answer.

• York

• Rickenbacker

• Wilhelm

• Pershing

______ was an important technological advance during the Progressive Era. Choose the best answer.

• Electrification

• Conscription

• Pool

• Armistice

Choose the best answer. John J. _____ commanded the American Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

• Wilhelm

• von Richthofen

• Rickenbacker

• Pershing

Choose the best answer. What was the initial German strategy for defeating France?

• convince Great Britain to join them in crushing France together

• control the North Sea in order to prevent British intervention, then sweep across France

• bypass strong French defenses by invading Belgium and Luxembourg before heading south towards Paris

• concentrate new tank armies on French border, punch through defensive lines and quickly seize Paris

Choose the best answer. Which statement was NOT an important tenet of Progressivism?

• regulation of business

• imperialism

• public welfare

• wealth redistribution

Choose the best answer. The Treaty of ______ officially ended the war between the Allies and Germany.

• London

• Paris

• Versailles

Choose the best answer. George Westinghouse was instrumental in the adoption of this standard for electrical current.

• direct

• indirect

• alternating

• steady

Choose the best answer. The Black Tom explosion was an act of German ______ that destroyed two million pounds of ammunition.

• agitation

• sabotage

• attrition