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Fast and Curious Quiz for Week of 1/23 (VUS.8)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following industrial leaders controlled most of America's railroad and shipping industries?

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

John D. Rockefeller

2.

Which of the following leaders started the Standard Oil Company and controlled most of the U.S.'s oil refineries?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

J.P. Morgan

3.

Which of the following industrial leaders dominated the American steel industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Thomas Edison

4.

J.P. Morgan was a leader in which of the following industries?

a)

Finance and banking

b)

Steel

c)

Shipping

d)

Oil

5.

Who invented the light bulb and the central power station?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

George Westinghouse

6.

Whose process made steel lighter, stronger, and more flexible than iron?

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

John D. Rockefeller

7.

Who perfected the assembly line for the automobile?

a)

Henry Bessemer

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Wright Brothers

d)

Thomas Edison

8.

Who had the first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

a)

The Wright Brothers

b)

Henry Bessemer

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Thomas Edison

9.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

10.

What is laissez-faire capitalism?

a)

The government is not involved in the economy.

b)

The government controls the economy.

c)

The government only controls the economy in an economic downturn.

d)

The government has tools to keep the economy running smoothly.

11.

What were laws that limited freedoms for African-Americans called?

a)

Henry Wallace Laws

b)

Intimidation Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Redeemer Laws

12.

Which Supreme Court case allowed for legal segregation and established the idea of "separate but equal?"

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Grant

d)

DuBois v. Ferguson

13.

The movement of African-American to northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination in the South is known as...

a)

The Great Escape

b)

The Great Migration

c)

The Great Exodus

d)

The Great Relocation

14.

Which of the following African-American leaders believed vocational education was the way to achieve equality and economic success?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida Wells

d)

Sojourner Truth

15.

Which of the following African-American leaders help found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Robert Smalls