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S.S. Understand the Past

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 4hrs 50mins

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Class
Date
1.

What does the primary source collection "The Rush for Gold" show about the gold rush?

a)

what the Gold Rush looked like

b)

people who went on the Gold RUsh

c)

people who still pan for gold

d)

why the Gold Rush was important

2.

Why does the video "Nellie Tayloe Ross Day" use an interview with Mabel Brown?

a)

to provide an autobiography

b)

to provide historical context

c)

to provide a primary source from history

d)

to provide an opinion from an average citizen

3.

Whose voice do you hear in the recording of the words, “Hear my voice...Alexander Graham Bell”?

a)

an actor's

b)

Alexander Graham Bell's

c)

a historians's

d)

Mrs. Scheich's

4.

What is the purpose of the video "The First Phone Call" about the first phone call?

a)

to show what Alexander Graham Bell's life was like

b)

to show why the first phone call failed

c)

to explain how Mr. Watson helped invent the phone

d)

to explain how the first phone was invented

5.

Whose voice do you hear saying the words, "Mr. Watson, come here," in the 1939 movie about Alexander Graham Bell?

a)

a historian's

b)

an actor's

c)

Alexander Graham Bell's

d)

Mr. Watson's

6.

Look at this map. This map would be most helpful if you were researching which of the following?

a)

the history of searching for gold in California

b)

the history of art in California

c)

the history of the Civil War

d)

the history of U.S. maps

7.

Look at this map. What does this map show?

a)

the time period when the Gold Rush happened

b)

the people who made money in the Gold Rush

c)

the reasons that the Gold Rush happened

d)

the places where people found gold during the Gold Rush

8.

What types of sources are in the collection The Rush for Gold?

a)

interviews and stories

b)

expert reports

c)

maps and globes

d)

photographs and drawings

9.

Look at this photograph. What does this photograph show?

a)

Bell making a long-distance telephone call

b)

Bell learning how to use a telephone

c)

Bell using the first telephone

d)

Bell showing how a telephone works

10.

What does the collection of Alexander Graham Bell's family papers show?

a)

what Alexander Graham Bell's voice sounded like

b)

what Alexander Graham Bell's life was like

c)

why Alexander Graham Bell was important

d)

the inventions that helped create the first telephone

11.

Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922. A movie was made about him in 1939. What type of source is that movie?

a)

secondary source

b)

oral history

c)

primary source

d)

interview

12.

The video "The First Phone Call" was made by historians in 2016. What kind of source is it?

a)

oral history

b)

primary source

c)

secondary source

d)

interview

13.

Why does the video "Nellie Tayloe Ross Day" show an interview with writer Mike Mackey?

a)

to provide historical context

b)

to provide an autobiography

c)

to provide an average opinion

d)

to provide a primary source

14.

Which kinds of sources is a video of Nellie Tayloe Ross on her 100th birthday?

a)

a primary source and secondary source

b)

a secondary source

c)

a primary source and an interview

d)

a text source

15.

Which sentence best explains how a movie about Nellie Tayloe Ross can use primary sources?

a)

It can use historian’s ideas about Nellie Tayloe Ross.

b)

It can use words from textbooks about Nellie Tayloe Ross.

c)

It is a primary source about Nellie Tayloe Ross.

d)

It can use interviews with Nellie Tayloe Ross.

16.

Which of the following best describes a documentary film about Nellie Tayloe Ross?

a)

autobiography

b)

secondary source

c)

newspaper

d)

primary source

17.

What does the Women's Suffrage College show about the causes for women getting the right to vote?

a)

Only a few people had to work for the cause.

b)

Many people worked hard for a long time

c)

Only women wanted women's suffrage.

d)

Photographs changed more people's mind than drawings.

18.

What do the primary source photographs from the Women's Suffrage Collection show?

a)

different points of view on women's suffrage

b)

the most important suffrages

c)

the end of the women's suffrage movement

d)

the names of all the suffragettes

19.

What was one positive effect of the Civil War?

a)

Slavery was no longer allowed

b)

The South left the Union

c)

Abraham Lincoln was reelected

d)

Cotton Prices rose

20.

What happened to freed African Americans after the Civil War?

a)

African American were given equal protection

b)

African Americans were offered free education

c)

African Americans were not able to buy land

d)

African Americans all moved to the north

21.

Look at this photograph. What does this photograph show about the place where the first flight took off?

a)

It was on empty land

b)

It was on an airport

c)

It was crowded with people

d)

It was in a city

22.

How did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony react to the Fifteenth Amendment?

a)

They were against it because it did not apply to everyone

b)

They were against it because it gave African Americans the right to vote

c)

They were for it because it gave African Americans the right to vote

d)

They were for it because it gave women the right to vote

23.

Look at this photograph. What does this photograph show?

a)

how the Wright brothers used a hill

b)

why the first flight did not succeed

c)

what the Wright brothers looked like

d)

what the first flight looked like

24.

Why did the Southern states leave the Union?

a)

They wanted to fight against the states' rights

b)

They did not feel part of the political pricess

c)

They were part of the Republican party

d)

They had the most political power

25.

What does the video about women’s suffrage show?

a)

what the most important suffragettes did

b)

how wars affected women's suffrage

c)

what the names of all the suffragettes were

d)

how slavery related to women's suffrage

26.

How did the anti-slavery convention affect Elizabeth Cady Stanton's role in the suffrage movement?

a)

The people at the convention added women's suffrage to their list of goals.

b)

She worked with another woman who had been excluded, and they fought for women's rights together.

c)

The men at the convention helped Stanton create arguments for women's suffrage.

d)

She met another woman when they participated in the convention, and they fought for women's rights together.

27.

How were the Wright brothers able to build a working airplane?

a)

through help from professors

b)

by copying work that had already been done

c)

through research and data collecting

d)

by studying animals that flew

28.

Did the Wright brothers have to build their own engine?

a)

yes

b)

No

29.

The 1962 World's Fair showed ideas about what the _______ might be like.

a)

1970's

b)

past

c)

21st century

30.

What was a major theme of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle?

a)

The history of Seattle and the surrounding region

b)

How Seattle developed into a major American city

c)

The best food and drink in 1960s Seattle

d)

How the USA would be able to beat the Russians

31.

What was a major theme of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle?

a)

How the USA would be able to beat the Russians

b)

The best food and drink in 1960s Seattle

c)

How Seattle developed into a major American city

d)

The history of Seattle and the surrounding region

32.

The 1962 World's Fair showed ideas about what the _______ might be like.

a)

21st century

b)

past

c)

1970s

33.

What feeling about the 1962 World’s Fair does the TV commercial give?

a)

fear

b)

curiosity

c)

excitement

d)

happiness

34.

In "A World's Fair Scrapbook," why did Jane go to the World's Fair?

a)

to play with her band

b)

to visit family members

c)

to see the monorail

d)

to learn about science

35.

In "A World's Fair Scrapbook," what does Jane's letter to her parents best show?

a)

what it was like to be in a band in 1962

b)

what it was like to take a train in 1962

c)

what it was like to travel in Seattle in 1962

d)

what it was like to travel in Kansas in 1962

36.

In "A World's Fair Scrapbook," what does Jane's letter to her parents best show?

a)

what it was like to be in a band in 1962

b)

what is was like to take a train in 1962

c)

what it was like to travel in Seattle in 1962

d)

what it was like to travel in Kansas in 1962

37.

How does the TV Commercial for the 1962 World's Fair make it sound?

a)

traditional

b)

confusing

c)

futuristic

d)

old-fashioned

38.

Review this document. Who would have found this document most useful?

a)

a worker at the fair

b)

a government employee

c)

a Seattle businessperson

d)

a visitor to the fair

39.

What are the 1962 fairgrounds known as today?

a)

The Monorail

b)

Seattle Center

c)

Century 21

d)

World's Fair

40.

Which exhibit at the 1962 World’s Fair cost money to visit?

a)

The Fine Arts Exhibit

b)

Commerce and Industry

c)

The U.S. Science Pavilion

d)

International Exhibits

41.

What was the main focus of the Seattle World’s Fair?

a)

movies

b)

history

c)

sciences

d)

arts

42.

Why would a current video inviting people to a conference in Seattle show the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair?

a)

to compare this city with cities around the world

b)

to explain why the city has a monument

c)

to show the creation of the monorail

d)

to connect the city's history with the present

43.

Where did the monorail in Seattle start?

a)

fairgrounds

b)

Space Needle

c)

Seattle Center

d)

city center

44.

How long did the 1962 World's Fair last?

a)

one month

b)

six months

c)

six days

d)

a week

45.

How much did the 1962 World's Fair cost?

a)

$10 million

b)

$1 million

c)

$100 million

d)

$100,000

46.

What does the World's Fair Exhibition Scrapbook best show?

a)

what it was like to attend the World's Fair

b)

what Seattle was like in 1962

c)

what kinds of people came to the World's Fair

d)

why the World's Fair was important to Seattle