Test9

Question 1

This man invented the cotton gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

This man invented the mechanical reaper

Answer 2

Cyrus McCormick

Question 3

This man invented the steamboat

Answer 3

Robert Fulton

Question 4

This man invented the telegraph

Answer 4

Samuel Morse

Question 5

This man invented the telephone

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

This man invented the electric light bulb

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Question 7

These men invented the airplane

Answer 7

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Question 8

This man produced the Model T

Answer 8

Henry Ford

Question 9

This man the invented liquid-fuel rocket

Answer 9

Robert Goddard

Question 10

This man invented the gas mask

Answer 10

Garrett A. Morgan

Question 11

This is the half which gave 160 acres of land to families for settling parts of the West

Answer 11

The Homestead Act

Question 12

This is the section of land set aside by the government for Native American tribes

Answer 12

Reservations

Question 13

One of the greatest land rushes took place in this state

Answer 13

Oklahoma

Question 14

This is the term for a person who comes into a new country to live

Answer 14

Immigrant

Question 15

This is the name of the man who organized America’s oil industry

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

This is the man who brought the steel industry to America

Answer 16

Andrew Carnegie

Question 17

This is the man who developed the assembly line method of production

Answer 17

Henry Ford

Question 18

This is the name of the system of dots and dashes used to send messages over the telegraph

Answer 18

Morse Code

Question 19

Russian America eventually became the state of

Answer 19

Alaska

Question 20

“Remember the Main” became a slogan during this war.

Answer 20

The Spanish American War

Question 21

This man was the leader of the Rough Riders

Answer 21

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 22

This territory became our 50th state

Answer 22

Hawaii

Question 23

The first battle fo the Civil War began at this location in 1861

Answer 23

Ft. Sumter

Question 24

This is one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad

Answer 24

Harriet Tubman

Question 25

This was the name of the Union’s ironclad ship

Answer 25

Monitor

Question 26

This is the name for President Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union

Answer 26

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 27

This is the name of the general who became commander of all the Union armies in 1864

Answer 27

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 28

This battle was the turning point of the Civil War

Answer 28

Gettysburg

Question 29

Why was the Battle of Vicksburg important?

Answer 29

The UnionArmy cut the South in two by gaining control of the Mississippi River.

Question 30

This man was the Union general whose “march to the sea” quickened the end of the war

Answer 30

William T. Sherman

Question 31

The capital of the Confederate states was

Answer 31

Richmond, Virginia

Question 32

The President of the Confederacy was

Answer 32

Jefferson Davis

Question 33

What happened in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia on April 9, 1865?

Answer 33

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant

Question 34

This man was the 16th President of the United States

Answer 34

Abraham Lincoln

Question 35

John Wilkes Booth is most remembered for

Answer 35

Shooting President Lincoln

Question 36

This is the name for the mail delivery system that began in 1860 and continued for 19 months

Answer 36

The Pony Express

Question 37

Clara Barton is best remembered for

Answer 37

She founded the American Red Cross

Question 38

D.L. Moody is famous for

Answer 38

Being the most famous evangelist during the 19th century

Question 39

Booker T. Washington is remembered most for this accomplishment

Answer 39

He founded Tuskegee Institute

Question 40

This man’s lab was known as “God’s Little Workshop”

Answer 40

George Washington Carver

Question 41

This is the name of the people who spent a lot of time trying to outlaw slavery

Answer 41

Abolitionists

Question 42

This is the name of the system of escape routes and hiding places that developed in the mid-1800’s to help slaves flee to freedom

Answer 42

Underground Railroad

Question 43

This is the term for a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument

Answer 43

Compromise

Question 44

This is the name of the southern states that left the Union to form their own nation

Answer 44

The Confederate States

Question 45

What were two important issues that were settled by the Civil War

Answer 45

1 - The Civil War settled the argument that no state could leave the union.

2 - The end of the civil war brought about the end of slavery.