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US History (Civil War to Present) Famous People

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
President of the United States during the Civil War.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Stonewall Jackson
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
2.
Commanding General of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Thomas S. Jackson
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
William T. Sherman
3.
Commanding General for the Union Army during the Civil War.
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Thomas S. Jackson
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
William T. Sherman
4.
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Ulysses Grant
d)
Andrew Johnson
5.
Famous Confederate general who helped win many important battles for the South.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
William T. Sherman
c)
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
d)
Ulysses Grant
6.
Union General who led a destructive path from Atlanta to Savannah.
a)
William T. Sherman
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
7.
_______ surrendered to _______ at Appomattox Court House, VA.
a)
Grant, Lee
b)
Lee, Grant
c)
Lincoln, Grant
d)
Lee, Lincoln
8.
Many cowboys were _______________ after the Civil War.
a)
former slaves
b)
immigrants from Europe
c)
Mexican Americans
d)
Native Americans
9.
Had the first successful flight in an airplane from Kitty Hawk, NC.
a)
Wilbur and Orville Wright
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
John F. Kennedy
10.
Helped develop many uses for the peanut and introduced the idea of crop rotation to increase farming production.
a)
Wilbur and Orville Wright
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Winston Churchill
11.
Inventor of the telephone.
a)
George Washington Carver
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Jesse Owens
12.
Remembered for the invention of the light bulb, but also created many other things.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Henry Ford
13.
President during the Spanish American War.  
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
William McKinley
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
14.
Led the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War and later became President of the United States.  While President, he commissioned the Panama Canal.
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
William McKinley
d)
Jefferson Davis
15.
Famous Jazz Musician during the 1920s and 1930s.
a)
Louis Armstrong
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Jesse Owens
d)
Margaret Mitchell
16.
Known for making automobiles more affordable by using an assembly line to create them.
a)
Charles Lindbergh
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Margaret Mitchell
d)
Langston Hughes
17.
African American poet and author during the Harlem Renaissance.
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Margaret Mitchell
d)
Charles Lindbergh
18.
Made the first solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.
a)
Babe Ruth
b)
Charles Lindbergh
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Orville Wright
19.
Baseball player who held a record for home runs for many years.
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Babe Ruth
20.
Baseball player who held a record for home runs for many years.
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Babe Ruth
21.
President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression.  Was blamed for the Great Depression.
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
Andrew Jackson
22.
This General lost a major battle to the Sioux Indians - remembered as The Battle of Little Bighorn.
a)
George Custer
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
William Sherman
23.
Jazz musician and Big Band Leader from the Harlem Renaissance.
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Charles Lindbergh
c)
Babe Ruth
d)
Jesse Owens
24.
Famous author who wrote about the Civil War.  in a famous novel, Gone With the Wind.
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Margaret Mitchell
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Duke Ellington
25.
Track star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
a)
James Armstrong
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
Jesse Owens
d)
Jimmy Carter
26.
President during the Great Depression and World War II.  
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
d)
Woodrow Wilson
27.
Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Joseph Stalin
28.
Dictator of Germany during World War II. 
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Emperor Hirohito
d)
Adolf Hitler
29.
Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Musolini
c)
Emperor Hirohito
d)
Joseph Stalin
30.
Dictator of Italy during World War II.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Emperor Hirohito
c)
Benito Musolini
d)
Winston Churchill
31.
Leader of Japan - ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
Emperor Hirohito
d)
Benito Musolini
32.
Symbol of women working during World War II.
a)
Rosie the Racer
b)
Rosie the Riveter
c)
Rosie the Reaper
d)
Rosie the Roadster
33.
Became President after Roosevelt's death.  Made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
Jimmy Carter
34.
U. S. Senator who accused many people in the government as being spies for the Communist Party.
a)
Nikita Khrushchev
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Fidel Castro
d)
John F. Kennedy
35.
A symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, he preached peaceful protests, and he was assassinated.
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Malcolm X
c)
Martin Luther King Jr. 
d)
Joseph Stalin
36.
This person refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL.  Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
a)
Margaret Mitchell
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Jessica Owens
d)
Queen Elizabeth
37.
Became leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.  He was leader during the Cold War.
a)
Joseph McCarthy
b)
Nikita Khrushchev
c)
Fidel Castro
d)
Jimmy Carter
38.
First African American Supreme Court Justice - Ruled in the case Brown vs. Board of Education.
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Jesse Owens
39.
President during the Cold War Era.  Fought for civil rights and was assassinated while in office.  
a)
Harry S. Truman
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
Lyndon B. Johnson
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
40.
U.S. Senator who was an advocate of the Civil Rights Movement.  He was assassinated.
a)
Robert F. Kennedy
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
Louis Armstrong