Quizzes

Question 0

Played Daniel Plainview in ‘there will be blood’

Answer 0

Daniel Day Hays

Question 1

One cartoon compares the teapot dome to what?

Answer 1

A steamroller

Question 2

FDR was governor of this state before becoming president

Answer 2

New York

Question 3

FDR was badly crippled by…

Answer 3

Polio

Question 4

During the depression many people live close together and homes built out of boxes rusty sheet-metal and other refuse. These shantytown were called…

Answer 4

Hoovervilles

Question 5

In July of 1932, 20,000 WWI vets marched on Washington, D.C. As the…

Answer 5

Bonus army

Question 6

The stick market crashed in late ____ of 1929

Answer 6

October

Question 7

President Hoover said,’‘______ is just around the corner’’

Answer 7

Prosperity

Question 8

Hoover feared that when the federal government took over relief efforts ‘‘real___ is lost’’

Answer 8

Recovery

Question 9

I. The election of 1928 Herbert Hoover defeated….

Answer 9

Al Smith

Question 10

Who was the 1st catholic candidate

Answer 10

Al Smith

Question 11

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was a naïve attempt at outlawing___

Answer 11

War

Question 12

Your text discusses the musical__

Answer 12

'’Chicago’’

Question 13

AKA the monkey trail

Answer 13

Scopes trail

Question 14

Probly the greatest all around athlete of the 20th century

Answer 14

Jim Thorpe

Question 15

Your text discribes prohibition and fundamentals as ___ conflicts

Answer 15

Urban-rural

Question 16

___ is know as ‘the house that Ruth built’

Answer 16

Yankee stadium

Question 17

Many intellectuals of the WWI generation refered tho themselves as the ____ generation

Answer 17

Lost

Question 18

‘The Baltimore Sun’ reporter ____, was a ‘thoroughgoing cynic’

Answer 18

H.L. Mencken

Question 19

Charles Lindberghs famous plane is the ‘spirit of____’

Answer 19

St. Louis

Question 20

Langston Hughes was an important figure in the ____

Answer 20

Harlem Renaissance

Question 21

Congressman and later Sen.____ was an important imperialist who avidly supported the expansion of the navy he was also a close friend of Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 21

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 22

Before gaining it’s independence, Panama. Was the northernmost province of____

Answer 22

Columbia

Question 23

The Panama Canal was completed in ___

Answer 23

1914

Question 24

The Roosevelt corollary was an addition to the ____

Answer 24

Monroe doctrine

Question 25

Spanish military forces in Cuba were centered around the city an port of ___

Answer 25

Santiago

Question 26

An______is a group of islands.

Answer 26

Archipelago

Question 27

Before becoming president of United States he was president of Princeton University

Answer 27

Woodrow Wilson

Question 28

Who was NOT a candidate in 1912

Answer 28

William McKinley

Question 29

The ___ gave woman the right to vote

Answer 29

19th amendment

Question 30

According to your text: ‘’ no one rose more suddenly or spectacularly in American politics than___

Answer 30

Woodrow Wilson

Question 31

Filth orchard street

Answer 31

New York

Question 32

____ was the most prominent black militant

Answer 32

WEB Du Bois

Question 33

Felt as ‘fit as a bull moose’ in 1912

Answer 33

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 34

The ___ gave the US a central bank for the 1st time since the 1830’s

Answer 34

Federal reserve act

Question 35

___ promised Americans a square deal

Answer 35

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 36

Burning of Jesse Washington in 1916 ___ texas

Answer 36

Waco

Question 37

In 1880 4% of ___ workers were women; by 1920 the figure was 50%

Answer 37

Clerical

Question 38

The ____ was a combination of national craft unions-it became known as the aristocracy of labor it did not encourage unskilled workers

Answer 38

American federation of labor

Question 39

The poem em scribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is entitled ‘The New___’

Answer 39

Colossus

Question 40

Many imitates from _____ came to the US during the California gold rush and worked on the transcontinental railroads

Answer 40

China

Question 41

'’Republicans presidents dominated the White House from the election of Abe Lincoln in 1860 until election of ____ in 1933

Answer 41

FDR

Question 42

____ was elected as a result of of the compromise of 1877

Answer 42

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 43

The 1st major break with the concept of the laissez-faire came with the 1890_____ antitrust act

Answer 43

Sherman

Question 44

In 1892, James B weaver was the ____ candidate for president

Answer 44

Populist

Question 45

____ is reaponsible for the Frontier thesis

Answer 45

Frederick Jackson turner

Question 46

The Amerindians failure to ___ doomed them

Answer 46

Unify

Question 47

Chief Joseph was the great leader of the ___ nation

Answer 47

Nex Perce

Question 48

Our ___ were creations of RR

Answer 48

Four time zones

Question 49

___ was one of the most ruthless an powerful railroad men of the 19th century

Answer 49

Cornelius Canderbilt

Question 50

By 1900 American ____ production was far greater than the rest of the world

Answer 50

Steel

Question 51

Many of the industrialist of the late 19th century were labeled as ‘‘___’’

Answer 51

Robber barons