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Important people in U.S. History

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the Latino soldier that fought in the Vietnam War that received the Medal of Honor for bravery?

a)

Alvin York

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Roy Benavides

d)

Vernon Baker

2.

Who was the inventor that created the light bulb?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Henry Bessemer

3.

Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Sanda Day O'Connor

4.

Who was President during The Great Depression and World War II?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Herbert Hoover

5.

Who was the entrepreneur who had a monopoly on steel in America?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

J.P. Morgan

6.

Who was the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues?

a)

Hank Aaron

b)

Roberto Clemente

c)

Satchel Paige

d)

Jackie Robinson

7.

Who was President of the U.S. when World War I started?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

William McKinley

8.

Who was President of the U.S. that was a trustbuster, a conservationist, and helped form the Rough Riders?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

John F. Kennedy

9.

Who was the muckraker that wrote the Jungle, a novel about the meatpacking industry?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Lincoln Steffens

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

10.

Who was the Latina that organized the United Farm Workers union (UFW) for better migrant conditions?

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Dolores Huerta

11.

Who was the first African-American U.S. President?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Osama Bin Laden

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

WEB DuBois

12.

Who was the U.S. President responsible for supply-side economics and the Peace through Strength foreign policy?

a)

Jimmy Carter

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

Who was the U.S. President at the end of World War II that made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

William McKinley

d)

Harry Truman

14.

Who was the African-American leader during the 1920s that emphasized black power and business ownership?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

WEB DuBois

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Vernon Baker

15.

Who was the first lady that stood in for the President and also believed in equality for African-Americans?

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Nancy Reagan

c)

Ladybird Johnson

d)

Michelle Obama

16.

Who was the organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave the "I have a dream" speech in Washington DC?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

WEB DuBois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Marcus Garvey

17.

Who was the President that helped create the Environmental Protection Agency and was involved in the Watergate scandal?

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Gerald Ford

18.

Who was the Senator from Wisconsin that falsely accused people in the State Department of being Communists?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Joseph McCarthy

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Vladamir Lenin

19.

Who was President during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Robert Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Ronald Reagan

20.

Who was the black lawyer that argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court?

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

Earl Warren

d)

Thurgood Marshall

21.

Who was the business owner that incorporated the assembly line in automobile manufacturing?

a)

Elon Musk

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Henry Ford

22.

Who was President during the September 11th attacks and during Hurricane Katrina?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Al Gore

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Bill Clinton

23.

Who was the reformer that fought for women's suffrage and was arrested for voting?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Susan B. Anthony

24.

Who was the black civil rights leader that believed in using violence if provoked and inspired the formation of the Black Panthers?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Booker T. Washington

25.

Who was the Mexican-American civil rights leader that helped form the United Farm Workers union to help farm workers?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Roy Benavides

c)

Sonia Sotomayor

d)

Cesar Chavez

26.

Who was the President that passed the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement and was impeached for perjury?

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Bill Clinton

c)

William Harding

d)

Ronald Reagan

27.

Who was the leader of the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, that planned the attacks on the World Trade Center towers?

a)

The Shah

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Saddam Hussein

d)

Osama Bin Laden

28.

Who was the first Hispanic to be appointed to the Supreme Court?

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Dolores Huerta

c)

Roy Benavides

d)

Cesar Chavez

29.

Who was the former WW II general and President that sent federal troops to help 9 black students enroll in a white school in Little Rock, AK?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

30.

Who was the African-American who called for immediate equality and helped create the NAACP?

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Fred Hampton

d)

Malcolm X

31.

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and beginning of the Cold War?

a)

Vladamir Lenin

b)

Vladamir Putin

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Nikita Kruschev

32.

Who was President when the Great Depression started and took a laissez-faire attitude toward fixing it?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Calvin Coolidge

c)

William Harding

d)

Herbert Hoover

33.

Who was the member of the NAACP that refused to move to the back of the bus to protest segregation?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

Rosa Parks

34.

Who was the leader of the Women's Liberation movement and helped form the National Organization of Women?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Gloria Steinam