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People SS 5th grade

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Harlem Renaissance poet

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Maya Angelou

2.

President during the Spanish American War

a)

McKinley

b)

George Washington

c)

FDR

d)

JFK

3.

Invented the light bulb

a)

Da Vinci

b)

George Washington Carver

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Thomas Edison

4.

Jazz Age trumpeter

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

Babe Ruth

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Henry Ford

5.

President during Depression who wanted people to help themselves

a)

Hoover

b)

FDR

c)

Nixon

d)

Jesse Owens

6.

Who wrote Gone with the Wind in Atlanta?

a)

Gary Mitchell

b)

Margaret Mitchell

c)

Margaret Smith

d)

Rosa Parks

7.

WWII, dictator of Russia

a)

Gorbachov

b)

Stalin

c)

Putin

d)

Reagan

8.

WWII, dictator of Germany

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Trudeau

d)

FDR

9.

US president that helped build the Panama Canal

a)

Kennedy

b)

Hoover

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Johnson

10.

Discovered new ways to farm and grow peanuts

a)

George Washington

b)

George Washington Carver

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Duke Ellington

11.

First transatlantic flight

a)

Amelia Earnhart

b)

Delta

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Panama

12.

Who is credited with the Montgomery bus boycott movement?

a)

Ruby Bridges

b)

Linda Brown

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Rosa Parks

13.

Was the US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

Eisenhower

b)

JFK

c)

Lyndon B Johnson

d)

Nixon

14.

Invented the use of assembly lines and specialization of labor

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charlie Camaro

c)

Mickey Mercedes

d)

Larry Lexus

15.

President who came up with the New Deal to help during the Depression

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

JFK

16.

US president who dropped the atomic bombs in WWII on Japan

a)

Truman

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Kennedy

d)

Clinton

17.

Dictator of Italy during WWII

a)

Hitler

b)

Stalin

c)

Mussolini

d)

Hirohito

18.

Dictator of Japan during WWII

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Hirohito

d)

Churchill

19.

Flew dangerous missions in WWII that protected the US bombers

a)

Tennessee Squires

b)

Tanzanian Frontmen

c)

Airmen from Transylvania

d)

Tuskegee Airmen

20.

Helped form the United Nations

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Jim Crow

21.

Was historic speaker at the March on Washington

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Robert Kennedy

d)

John Lewis

22.

Started a "Red Scare" accusing people in the US of being Russian spies

a)

Joseph McDonalds

b)

Joseph McCarthy

c)

John McCain

d)

Jack Kennedy

23.

Fidel Castro was the dictator of

a)

China

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Japan

d)

Cuba

24.

Was president during the fall of Communism

a)

Ronald Reagan

b)

George Bush

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Richard Nixon

25.

Was president during the attack on the US on September 11

a)

George Bush, Jr.

b)

Obama

c)

Trump

d)

Clinton

26.

Wright brothers invented the airplane where?

a)

Kitty Hawk, SC

b)

Kitty Hawk, NC

c)

Kitty Hawk, Virginia

d)

Kitty Hawk, Florida

27.

Famous baseball player during the Roaring Twenties

a)

Baby Ruth

b)

Babe Ruth

c)

Chipper Jones

d)

Charles Lindbergh

28.

Ship that was torpedoed that made US join WWI

a)

Titanic

b)

Zimmerman

c)

Edmund Fitzgerald

d)

Lusitania

29.

Famous Olympic runner that won gold medals in front of Hitler

a)

Usain Bolt

b)

Jesse Owens

c)

Babe Ruth

d)

Thurgood Marshall

30.

Famous African American band leader in the 1930's

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Babe Ruth

c)

Muhammed Ali

d)

Louis Armstrong

31.

British Prime Minister during WWII-coined the phrase Iron Curtain

a)

Stalin

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Churchill

d)

Mussolini

32.

Leader of Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

Fidel Castro

b)

Raoul Castro

c)

Stalin

d)

Khrushchev

33.

President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

a)

JFK

b)

Robert Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Reagan

34.

Protested for the civil rights of immigrant farm workers

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

TVA

35.

President during the Persian Gulf War- 1990-1991when Sadam Hussien invaded Kuwait

a)

George H. Bush, Sr.

b)

George Bush, Jr.

c)

Clinton

d)

Carter

36.

Battle in WWII when Allies stormed the beaches in Normandy, France

a)

D-Day

b)

VE-Day

c)

VY- Day

d)

Iwo Jima

37.

During WWII when Japan surrendered

a)

D-Day

b)

VE -Day

c)

VJ-Day

d)

Pearl Harbor

38.

During WWII when Germany surrendered

a)

D-Day

b)

VE-Day

c)

VJ-Day

d)

Iwo Jima

39.

During WWII when Japan surprise attacked the US

a)

Iwo Jima

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Attack on Hiroshima

d)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

40.

The Attack of Pearl Harbor is compared to the terror attacks

a)

on September 11, 2001

b)

on November 1, 2010

c)

on April 7, 1999

d)

on December 7, 1945

41.

The Brown vs. Board of Education verdict led to the integration of schools and the protection of the

a)

Little Rock Ten

b)

Little Rock Nine

c)

Arkansas Eight

d)

Tennessee Twelve

42.

"Beef Price on the Rise due to Cattle Trails" would most likely benefit which group?

a)

People buying cattle in urban areas

b)

People wanting to purchase beef

c)

People trying to start their own beef ranch

d)

People moving cattle on railroads heading East

43.

Ronald Reagan wanted what to bring about the end of the Cold War? BEST ANSWER

a)

The Berlin Wall to come down

b)

Superior American technology, weapons and economic power

c)

Improved relations with the Soviet Union, encourage reforms and pursue an arms reduction agreement

d)

The Soviet Union to give all their weapons to the US

44.

The New Deal program the CCC long term impact

a)

Inspired Americans to appreciate the outdoors and our national parks

b)

Allowed people to have electricity

c)

Encouraged people to appreciate public art

d)

Gave jobs to unemployed men

45.

Why did MOST European immigrants in the 1900's choose to leave their countries and come to the US?

a)

To escape starvation from the potato blight

b)

to escape poverty caused by a lack of economic opportunities at home

c)

to escape communist oppression

d)

to escape abuse caused by discrimination against their religious beliefs

46.

Anne Frank wrote "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." What misery is she speaking about?

a)

the time she spent at school

b)

the way her parents treated her

c)

the war going on in her home country of Germany

d)

the shipping of Jewish people to concentration camps

47.

Which of the following illustrates how life might be today without the contributions of George Washington Carver? Select all that apply.

a)

There would be no farmers.

b)

The clothes we wear would not be made of cotton.

c)

There would be fewer uses of peanuts and soybeans.

d)

There would be fewer crops because of no crop rotation practices.

48.

Changing from getting the news on the radio to TV

a)

didn't impact Americans

b)

created stronger feelings and opinions because Americans could see events

c)

meant less news

d)

created boredom

49.

How did John F Kennedy "win" the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

He sent a blockade of US ships around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from delivering more missiles

b)

He bombed Cuba

c)

He negotiated on the phone with Khrushchev

d)

He sent missiles to Turkey and Italy to scare the Soviet Union