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WorksheetsH8 Test 9 Review
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was Thomas Edison's main rival?
a)
Nicholas Tesla
b)
Samuel Gompers
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
Adam Langston
2.
Who was the greatest inventor the world has ever produced?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
local color
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
Daniel Webster
3.
What was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
a)
Wyoming
b)
Virginia
c)
Nevada
d)
Colorado
4.
What lawyer won the Scopes trial?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
Nicholas Tesla
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
Andrew Johnson
5.
What act required men of specific ages to register with local draft boards?
a)
Selective Service Act
b)
16th amendment
c)
Chicago
d)
Dawes Act
6.
Who was the president who supported Dollar Diplomacy?
a)
William Taft
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
John C. Calhoun
7.
What was invented by Elisha Otis?
a)
safety elevator
b)
Platt Amendment
c)
Zimmerman Note
d)
Woodrow Wilson
8.
Who was known as the Father of Progressive Education?
a)
John Dewey
b)
William Sherman
c)
Alvin York
d)
Louis Sullivan
9.
Who was the founder of the Grange?
a)
Oliver Kelley
b)
Robert Fuller
c)
William Sherman
d)
Teller Resolution
10.
Who founded the NAACP?
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Woodrow Wilson
11.
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
a)
Bull Run
b)
Lexington
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Waterloo
12.
Who was the president who popularized the progressive movement?
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Nicholas Tesla
c)
West Virginia
d)
Thomas Edison
13.
Who was the president who served two terms nonconsecutively?
a)
Grover Cleveland
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Nicholas Tesla
d)
Frederick Douglas
14.
In what did Germany promise land from the United States to Mexico?
a)
Zimmerman Note
b)
Calvin Coolidge
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
13th amendment
15.
Who served as president during the Civil War?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
18th amendment
c)
John C. Calhoun
d)
West Virginia
16.
Who was the senator who declared his loyalty to the Union in the Seventh of March Speech?
a)
Daniel Webster
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
William Taft
d)
Andrew Johnson
17.
What was the organization created by leaders of Communism that met in Moscow?
a)
Third International
b)
Red Cross
c)
The Grange
d)
James Whitcomb Riley
18.
What President proposed the League of Nations?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Calvin Coolidge
c)
Robert Peary
d)
Andrew Johnson
19.
What provided for Cuban independence?
a)
Platt Amendment
b)
Selective Service Act
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Andrew Carnegie
20.
Who established the first successful labor union?
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
local color
c)
Bull Run
d)
William Sherman
21.
Which state was admitted to the Union during the Civil War?
a)
West Virginia
b)
Jane Addams
c)
safety elevator
d)
Gentleman's Agreement
22.
What act offered land and citizenship to the head of an Indian family?
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
18th amendment
d)
Zimmerman Note
23.
Who became known as the March King?
a)
John Philip Sousa
b)
KDKA
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
16th amendment
24.
Who was the greatest war hero from World War I?
a)
Alvin York
b)
Calvin Coolidge
c)
Frederick Douglas
d)
Sherman Antitrust Act
25.
Who was known at the Hoosier poet?
a)
James Whitcomb Riley
b)
KDKA
c)
Robert Peary
d)
local color
26.
Who was the first U.S. Vice President to sit in on cabinet meetings?
a)
Calvin Coolidge
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
William Taft
27.
Who was the president that passed an act that made gold the only standard for monetary value?
a)
William McKinley
b)
Alvin York
c)
William Taft
d)
Andrew Johnson
28.
What was the amendment that gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes?
a)
16th
b)
18th
c)
19th
d)
15th
29.
What act set a precedent for government regulation of business?
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
William Sherman
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
30.
What was the treaty that withdrew Russia from World War I?
a)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
b)
Treaty of Versailles
c)
Alvin York
d)
Paris Peace Treaty
31.
Who represented South Carolina just before they withdrew from the Union?
a)
John C. Calhoun
b)
Zimmerman Note
c)
Daniel Webster
d)
Dawes Act
32.
Who was one of the earliest progressive leaders?
a)
Robert La Follette
b)
Billy Sunday
c)
Robert Peary
d)
Jane Addams
33.
What city was destroyed by a fire in 1871?
a)
Chicago
b)
13th amendment
c)
Gentleman's Agreement
d)
Dawes Act
34.
What is the term for telling a story using the scenery, customs, and dialect of a particular region of the country?
a)
local color
b)
Third International
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
Teller Resolution
35.
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a)
Frederick Douglas
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Robert Peary
d)
John C. Calhoun
36.
Who was the Union commanding officer at the end of the Civil War?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
William Sherman
c)
16th amendment
d)
Abraham Lincoln
37.
Who was the first president to be impeached?
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Jane Addams
c)
William McKinley
d)
William Sherman
38.
What was the amendment that outlawed slavery?
a)
13th amendment
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
Calvin Coolidge
39.
Who was one of the first skyscraper architects?
a)
Louis Sullivan
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
Bull Run
d)
Compromise of 1850
40.
Who was the Union general that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta?
a)
William Sherman
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Jane Addams
d)
KDKA
41.
What controlled the immigration of Japanese laborers to the United States?
a)
Gentleman's Agreement
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
John C. Calhoun
d)
18th amendment
42.
What stated that the U.S. only intended to free Cuba?
a)
Teller Resolution
b)
KDKA
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
Zimmerman Note
43.
Who was one of the first men to reach the North Pole?
a)
Robert Peary
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Teller Resolution
d)
Billy Sunday
44.
What was the amendment that prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages?
a)
18th amendment
b)
Billy Sunday
c)
Robert La Follette
d)
John Philip Sousa
45.
Who formed the Standard Oil Company?
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
John Philip Sousa
c)
local color
d)
Daniel Webster
46.
What act upset the balance between slave states and free states?
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Wyoming
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
18th amendment
47.
What was the first commercial broadcasting station?
a)
KDKA
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
16th amendment
48.
Who was the baseball evangelist from the 1900s?
a)
Billy Sunday
b)
13th amendment
c)
John C. Calhoun
d)
William McKinley
49.
Who made the first nonstop transatlantic flight?
a)
Charles Lindbergh
b)
Federal Reserve Act
c)
William Taft
d)
Oliver Kelley
50.
What was the first party to express that the government could solve practically all problems?
a)
Populist party
b)
Nicholas Tesla
c)
Bull Run
d)
Charles Lindbergh
51.
Who built the largest steel manufacturer in the world?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
local color
c)
Teller Resolution
d)
18th amendment
52.
Who founded the Hull House?
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Nicholas Tesla
c)
safety elevator
d)
Selective Service Act
53.
What was the act that created a privately controlled central banking system under the sponsorship of the government?
a)
Federal Reserve Act
b)
Platt Amendment
c)
Billy Sunday
d)
16th amendment
54.
year of the beginning of the Civil War
a)
1861
b)
1898
c)
1903
d)
1872
55.
YEAR: year of the compromise to end Reconstruction
a)
1877
b)
1903
c)
1888
d)
1913
56.
year of the Emancipation Proclamation
a)
1863
b)
1910
c)
1879
d)
1918
57.
year of the Spanish-American War
a)
1898
b)
1903
c)
1867
d)
1917
58.
year the Civil War ended
a)
1865
b)
1918
c)
1876
d)
1901
59.
year the first transcontinental railroad was completed
a)
1869
b)
1901
c)
1910
d)
1871
60.
year the Titanic sank
a)
1912
b)
1923
c)
1901
d)
1898
61.
year the U.S. entered World War I
a)
1917
b)
1913
c)
1914
d)
1918
62.
year World War I ended
a)
1918
b)
1914
c)
1921
d)
1871
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