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Significant People in U.S. History

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

overthrown by American settlers- led to annexation of Hawaii

a)

Chief Joseph

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Queen Liliuokalani

d)

William Jennings Bryan

2.

his Standard Oil Co. monopolized US oil refining industry

a)

Henry Bessemer

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

George Dewey

3.

Thomas Nast’s cartoons attacked his NYC Tammany Hall machine

a)

William M. Tweed

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

John Hay

d)

Jacob Riis

4.

Secty of State under McKinley- proposed Open Door Policy in China

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

John Hay

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

William H. Seward

5.

founded Hull House- a community center for poor in Chicago

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Jane Addams

6.

inventions included phonograph, light bulb, “Wizard of Menlo Park”

a)

Thomas Nast

b)

Thomas Webber

c)

Thomas Jones

d)

Thomas Edison

7.

campaigned for women’s rights- especially the right to vote

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Frances Willard

8.

book “How the Other Half Lives”- resulted in help for NYC poor

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Matthew C. Perry

d)

Upton Sinclair

9.

steelmaking monopoly- gave away millions- funded 2,800 libraries

a)

Vanderbilt

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Morgan

d)

Carnegie

10.

muckraker who wrote “The Jungle”- exposing meat packing abuses

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jane Addams

d)

WEB DuBois

11.

used assembly line to mass produce affordable Model T automobile

a)

James A. Garfield

b)

George Dewey

c)

John Deere

d)

Henry Ford

12.

African-American educator and reformer- founded Tuskegee Institute

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

George Wallace

13.

made first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC

a)

Abbott and Costello

b)

Orville & Wilbur Wright

c)

George Hand and William Foot

d)

William & Walter Reed

14.

“Cross of Gold” speech- free silver to help farmers, debtors

a)

William M. Tweed

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

John D. Rockefeller

15.

killed by rejected office-seeker- bringing civil service reform

a)

Grover Cleveland

b)

James A. Garfield

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

Andrew Johnson