People in History
The first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo was _________
President remembered for the Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding
The famous baseball player who became an evangelist was _____________
Billy Sunday
A company that has complete control over a market is called a ____________________.
Monopoly
The law which required all men from twenty-one to thirty years old to register with a draft board was the _______________________Act.
Selective Service
The first state to Grant full political privileges to women was ____________.
Wyoming
Lectured against evolution in colleges and universities
Harry Rimmer
Grover Cleveland
Whose assassination led to the beginning of World War 1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What idea promotes a utopian classless society where government is unnecessary?
Communism
Social Security Act
When did the Great Depression begin?
1929
The greatest American war hero from World War I was Eddie Rickenbacker from eastern Tennessee.
True/False; if False what is the correct answer?
False/Alvin York
Proposed the New Deal Program
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When did World War I begin?
1914
What nation was promised American land in return for heling Germany in World War 1?
Mexico
The first successful national labor union was organized by ___________?
Samuel Gompers
What government project brought hydroelectric power to the mid South?
Tennessee Valley Authority
This person investigated Communist activities in America
J. Edgar Hoover
Promoted Dollar Diplomacy
The lawyer who won the Scopes Trial was ___________
William Jennings Bryan
What are the profits that are earned on stocks?
dividends
What terrorist organization was dedicated to worldwide Communist revolution?
Third Communist International
What government project built roads, bridges, public buildings, and other structures?
Works Progress Administration
Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
Passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chester Arthur
The first transcontinental railroad was completed at _________________ Utah.
Promontory Summit
The practice of buying risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit is known as _____________.
Speculation
What amendment gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes?
Sixteenth
Why was the Age of Industry also known as the Gilded Age?
The growth of industry also led to the growth of political and social corruption.
Who is the Author of the Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smiith
Promoted A Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
What name was given to the countries that sided with Germany in World War 1?
Central Powers
What is a rapid increase of prices due to an increase in the amount of money in circulation called?
Inflation
All member accounts were insured for up to $5000 through the ________________.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
A Fire in 1871 destroyed the city of ____________
Chicago
Who organized the committee for Industrial Organizations?
John L. Lewis
President who proposed the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
John J. Pershing
The socialist economist in Great Britain who influenced the "brain trust" was ______________
John Maynard Keynes
The amendment that banned the sale of alcohol was the ___________________ amendment.
Eighteenth
Put these in timeline order of first two last.
Opening of Panama Canal, Spanish-American War, Worlds Fair, Wright Brothers first successful powered flight, Bolshevik Revolution.
1.Worlds Fair 2.Spanish-American War 3. Wright brothers first successful powered flight 4. Opening of the Panama Canal 5. Bolshevik Revolution