Cultrial Lit Quiz Set #2

Question 1

1830

Answer 1

Cyrus McCormack invented reaper, trains made transportation and communication easier and Samuel morse invented the telegraph

Question 2

1860

Answer 2

Civil war (1861-1865) - Lincoln was 16th president of the U.S.; Industrial revolution

Question 3

1869

Answer 3

Transcontinental railroad finished (golden spike- promontory, Utah); Suez Canal formally opened to traffic, November 17-100 miles long, connecting, by the way of 3 natural lakes, the gulf of suez and the Indian Ocean

Question 4

1896

Answer 4

Plessy vs ferguson- Supreme Court ruling of “seperate but equal” declared

Question 5

1898

Answer 5

Spanish- American war was fought in 3 months. America win and acquired the Philippines, Cuba, puerto Rick and Guam

Question 6

1914-1918

Answer 6

The Great War

Question 7

1917

Answer 7

Bolshevik revolution led by Lenin to overthrow the Romanov dynasty. Beginning of the communism that lasted until 1991

Question 8

1920

Answer 8

Women in America revived suffrage

Question 9

1929

Answer 9

October- called the Black Tuesday- stock market crash started worldwide Depression

Question 10

1803

Answer 10

Lousisana purchase from Napoleons France that effectively doubled the size of the U.S, As well when the world reached its first billion people- Thomas Jefferson is president