Who was it?
Who was a famous baseball played who became an evangelist?
Billy Sunday
What city was destroyed by a fire in 1871?
Chicago
What law required all men from twenty-one to thirty years old to register with a draft board?
Selective Service Act
Who invented the first successful incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What is a company that has complete control over a market?
monopoly
Who developed an inexpensive method for turning iron ore into steel?
Sir Henry Bessemer
Where was the treaty that ended World War I signed?
Versailles
What act created a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance?
Social Security Act
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the rapid increase of prices due to an increase in the amount of money in circulation called?
inflation
Who is remembered for the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G. Harding
What was the first state to grant full political privileges to women?
Wyoming
What act further opened the Great Plains for settlement?
Homestead Act
Who organized the Committee for Industrial Organizations?
John L. Lewis
What terrorist organization was dedicated to worldwide Communist revolution?
Third Communist International
Who lectured against evolution in colleges and universities?
Harry Rimmer
Where was the first battle of the Spanish-American War fought?
the Philippines
What government project brought hydroelectric power to the mid-South?
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Who founded the NAACP?
Who was the lawyer that won the Scopes Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
What socialist economist in Great Britain influenced the "brain trust"?
John Maynard Keynes
Where was the first transcontinental railroad completed?
Promontory Summit, Utah
What government project built roads, bridges, public buildings, and other structures?
Works Progress Administration
Who was the greatest American war hero from World War I, from eastern Tennessee?
Alvin York
What is the practice of buying risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit?
specultion