WorksheetsImportant People from 5th Grade
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This man is known for inventing peanut products, sweet potato products and crop rotation.
a)
Charles Lindbergh
b)
George Washington
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
George Washington Carver
2.
This man invented the light bulb.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
George Washington Carver
3.
These men created the first powered airplane and had their first flight in Kitty Hawk, NC.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
George Washington Carver
4.
This man invented the telephone.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
George Washington Carver
5.
Who was the president during the Spanish American War and helped lead us to be a world power?
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
William McKinley
d)
Woodrow Wilson
6.
This man was a Rough Rider and helped construct the Panama Canal that opened the U.S. up to world trade.
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
William McKinley
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
7.
Who was the leader of the Sioux tribe and helped beat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
a)
Sitting Cow
b)
Raging Custer
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Bullrun
8.
This man made baseball popular during the 1920s.
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Charles Lindbergh
c)
Babe Ruth
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
9.
This man was the famous African American writer that is known for his poetry during the Harlem Renaissance.
a)
Louis Armstrong
b)
Duke Ellington
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Langston Hughes
10.
This man is a famous Jazz musician that played the trumpet.
a)
Louis Armstrong
b)
Duke Ellington
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Charles Lindbergh
11.
This man was the first person to ever fly over the Atlantic Ocean. He flew all the way from New York to Paris France. His plane was called the Spirit of St. Louis.
a)
Wright Brothers
b)
Babe Ruth
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Thomas Edison
12.
Who invented the first automobile and the assembly line that helped make cars in mass production and cheaper?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Henry Ford
c)
John Brown
d)
Charles Lindbergh
13.
This man was president during the beginning of the Great Depression and believed it was not the governments job to help the economy.
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
Abraham Lincoln
14.
This president created the New Deal and helped the U.S. get out of the Great Depression by creating jobs.
a)
Herbert Hovoer
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
John F. Kennedy
d)
Woodrow Wilson
15.
This famous author is from Atlanta, Georgia and wrote Gone With the Wind.
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Duke Ellington
d)
Margaret Mitchell
16.
This man was a track and field athlete that won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Jesse Jackson
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Jesse Owens
17.
This man is known as the King of Swing and played the piano during the 1930's. He is the one who introduced Swing music.
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Louis Armstrong
c)
Langston Hughes
d)
Jesse Owens
18.
This man became president after FDR had to step down, and he made the very hard decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Harry S. TRuman
d)
Josef Stalin
19.
Who was the dictator of Italy?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Emperor Hirohito
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Benito Mussolini
20.
Who was the dictator of Germany and responsible for the Holocaust?
a)
Benito Mussolini
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Emperor Hirohito
21.
Who was the leader of Great Britain?
a)
Benito Mussolini
b)
Harry S. Truman
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
FDR
22.
This man was the leader of Japan and thought to have ascended from the Gods.
a)
Emperor Hirohito
b)
Tojo
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Adolf Hitler
23.
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Winston Churchill
24.
This group of men were elite pilots that protected bomber planes during WWII. They were African American and had an institute in Alabama.
a)
Tuskegee Airmen
b)
Rosie the Riveter
c)
Kamikaze pilots
25.
This was the symbol that represented women during WWII going to work in factories.
a)
Margaret Mitchell
b)
Tuskegee Airmen
c)
Rosie the Riveter
26.
Who was responsible for putting missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Josef Stalin
c)
Joseph McCarthy
d)
Nikita Kruhshchev
27.
Who was the U.S. Senator who caused panic in the U.S. talking about how people in the United States were communist and trying to spread communism?
a)
FDR
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Nikita Khurshchev
28.
This man gave a famous speech called, "I Have A Dream" on the March on Washington.
a)
Thurgood Marhsall
b)
Jesse Owens
c)
Duke Ellington
d)
Martin Luther King
29.
This women refused to give up her seat on a bus and it led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that got rid of all segregation on public transportation.
a)
Michelle Obama
b)
Margaret Mitchell
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
30.
This man was the lawyer of Linda Brown and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
a)
MLK
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Jesse Owens
d)
Langston Hughes
31.
This president was assassinated in Texas because he was a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Robert F. Kennedy
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
John F. Kennedy
32.
This man's brother was the president of the U.S. and was assassinated in the 1960's. He also was running for president, but was assassinated in California before the election.
a)
FDR
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
John F. Kennedy
d)
Robert F. Kennedy
33.
Who was responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001? He was the leader of al- Qaeda.
a)
Obama
b)
Saddam Hussein
c)
Osama Bin Laden
d)
Nikita Khrushchev
34.
This man was the leader of Iraq and helped members of al-Qaeda after 9/11.
a)
Osama Bin Laden
b)
Saddam Hussein
c)
Adolf Hitler
d)
Benito Mussolini
35.
Which important woman helped with the United Nations?
a)
Jackie Kennedy
b)
Eleanor Roosevelt
c)
Rose Parks
d)
Margaret Mitchel
36.
This important leader helped with the collapse of the Soviet Union and gave a famous speech in front of the Berlin Wall.
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Ronald Reagan
37.
American labor leader and civil rights activist who founded the National Farm Workers Association and helped immigrants.
a)
Cesar Chavez
b)
FDR
c)
MLK
d)
William McKinley
38.
Who is your favorite teacher in the whole world that loves Social Studies? :)
a)
Mrs. Peden
b)
Mrs. Acosta
c)
Better click the right one :)
d)
Not this one!
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