Social Studies - People

Question 1

An American novelist, journalist, and social activist. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain world wide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

Answer 1

Jack London

Question 2

A Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach, and innovator.

Answer 2

James Naismith

Question 3

Founded Hull House, a place for the peer and to get help, settlement house

Answer 3

Jane Addams

Question 4

President of the Confederacy 1801-1865

Answer 4

Jefferson Davis

Question 5

Education Reformer

Answer 5

John Dewey

Question 6

Wrote military march music

Answer 6

John Philips Sousa

Question 7

Architect
“father of skyscrapers”
“father of modernism”

Answer 7

Louis Sullivan

Question 8

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

Answer 8

Mark Twain

Question 9

Italy nun who worked with poor NYC

Answer 9

St. Mother Cabrini

Question 10

Wrote ragtime music

Answer 10

Scott Joplin

Question 11

First president that women could vote for

Answer 11

Warren G. Harding

Question 12

President assassinated in Buffalo

Answer 12

William McKinley

Question 13

President who became Supreme Court Justice

Answer 13

William Howard Taft

Question 14

WWI President, 14 Points, League of Nations

Answer 14

Woodrow Wilson

Question 15

Last desperate attempt to win at Gettysburg by South (failed)

Answer 15

Picket’s Charge

Question 16

The President during Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 16

Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

First catholic to run for president, lost 1928

Answer 17

Al Smith

Question 18

Suffragists, finally able to get women’s right to vote

Answer 18

Alice Paul

Question 19

Tuskegee Institute

Answer 19

Booker T. Washington

Question 20

Wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty

Answer 20

Emma Lazarus

Question 21

WCTU, anti-booze leader

Answer 21

Frances Willard

Question 22

Elected to four terms, New Deal, WW2

Answer 22

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 23

Union General, total war, siege of Atlanta, March to the Sea

Answer 23

General Sherman

Question 24

Union General ran for President against Lincoln 1864 (lost)

Answer 24

George McClellan

Question 25

Former Erie Country Sheriff, only person elected-defeated-then elected again…. President

Answer 25

Grover Cleveland

Question 26

President during Great Depression, lost FDR 1932

Answer 26

Herbert Hoover

Question 27

First Person to fly across Atlantic, Spirit of St. Louis

Answer 27

Charles Lindbergh