Final Exam - People Flashcards
Who was President during World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
Who established the colony of Rhode Island?
Roger Williams
Who led the conquest of the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
Who wrote the Blue-Backed Speller?
Noah Webster
Who was president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
For whom was the New World named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who is considered the “Father of the Constitution”?
James Madison
What President helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?
Jimmy Carter
Who was the prosecutor at the Scopes Trial?
Williams Jennings Bryan
Who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who was the first president of the “Lone Star Republic”?
Sam Houston
What is the strict Islamic regime governing Afghanistan called?
Taliban
Who was the first black Cabinet member?
Robert Weaver
Who built the Great Northern railroad?
James J. Hill
Who was the dictator of Panama that was arrested by U.S. Troops?
Manuel Noriega
Who was the spokes man for detente during the Nixon Administration?
Henry Kissinger
Who became the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Which General led at D-Day?
Dwight Eisenhower
Who was known as the “Great Communicator”?
Ronald Reagan
Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
What U.S.general was sent to the Philippines during World War II?
Douglas MacArthur
Who has been called the greatest inventor of all time?
Thomas Edison
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
Who gave the famous “Seventh of March” speech?
Daniel Webster
Who promoted the idea of public primary schools for all children?
Horace Mann
Who was the leader of the Bolshevik revolution?
Lenin
Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
Jonathan Edwards
Who was the “Father of New France”?
Samuel de Champlain
Who was the best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Finney
Who was the best known of the local color writers?
Mark Twain
Who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
