Unit 16
When was the very first telephone call made? (324)
March 10, 1876
On what kind of plantation was Booker T. Washington born? (346)
Tobacco
Theodore Roosevelt suffered from severe ______________________. (366)
Asthma
Jim Thorpe participated in the _______ Olympic Games in __________________________ (390)
1912; Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Fuchs and her father contracted what disease? (411)
Tuberculosis
Herbert Hoover majored in ________________.(432)
Which is the study of ______ and its _________.
Geology; Earth; Rocks
In 1915, Bell and Watson made a phone call from
______________ to __________________. (328)
New York to California
What did the “T” in Booker T. Washington stand for? (347)
Taliaferro
Theodore Roosevelt served in Washington with Presidents ______________________ and ___________________________.(368)
Harrison and McKinley
Jim Thorpe’s Olympic sport was _____________ and _____________. (392)
Track and Field
Anna and her father went to stay at a medical facility called a _________________. (411)
Sanitarium
At Herbert Hoover’s first mining job, he pushed a cart and worked 10 hours a day seven days a week making _____ her hour. (432)
$2
Who made the very first telephone call? (324)
Alexander Graham Bell
Booker T. Washington felt that getting into a schoolhouse would be like going to _____________. (347)
Heaven
The day that his first daughter, Alice, was born Theodore lost his ____________ and his _________________. (367)
Wife and Mother
A few months after the Olympics, a news reporter found out that teams in North Carolina had paid Thorpe for playing baseball. Because Olympic athletes were not allowed to be paid, what did officials take away from him? (394)
Medals
In the 1920’s, what were 3 terms that people often used instead of the word “car”? (416)
1. Horseless Carriage
2.) Automobile
3.) Motor Car
After America entered World War I, Herbert Hoover was in charge of the ________ supply for Americans and the U.S. Army. (433)
Food
Who was Anne Sullivan? (331)
Helen Keller's teacher
George Washington Carver discovered over 300 uses for the ________________ plant while working as a scientist at Tuskegee Institute.
Peanut
After becoming a hero following the Battle of San Juan Hill, the people of New York elected Roosevelt to be their ____________________. (368)
Governor
On May 15, 1915, Americans learned about the sinking of the ________________. It was sunk by a ____________________ torpedo. (397)
Lusitania; German
Who invented the first gas-powered automobile? (416)
Karl Benz
Shortly after Hoover became president, the Great _________________ hit America. (434)
Depression
What was the first word that Helen Keller learned? (332)
Water
What was the name of the autobiography published by Booker T. in 1901? (350)
Up From Slavery
Roosevelt became the vice president for _____________________? (369)
McKinley
An ______________ is an agreement one country makes with another country. (397)
Alliance
Who first designed a car that was affordable to most Americans? What was the car called? When was it first made? (417)
Henry Ford; Model T; 1908
In 1921 Franklin Roosevelt caught _________ which made his body very weak. He was never able to _______________ normally again. (438)
Polio; Walk
How many United States presidents did Helen Keller meet? (334)
12
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, whom did he take with him to Washington, D.C. to serve as his secretary. (355)
John Hay and John Nikolay
Roosevelt was the _______________________ person ever to become president at age ________. (369)
President; 42
The Great War is now known as…..? (398)
World War I
When was the first Indianapolis 500 held? (419)
1911
Roosevelt spoke to Americans through radio speeches called “_____________________”? (439)
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to America from _____________? (337)
France
What did Kapiolani do that helped the Hawaiian people realize that Pele was a powerless and false god? (360)
Ate the berries that her people were collecting for Pele and threw rocks into the crater
Roosevelt was the first president to invite a black person to have a meal with him at the White House. Who was his guest? (369)
Booker T. Washington
President ______________ declared that the United States would be ________________ which meant that The United States was not going to join the fight on either side. (398)
Woodrow Wilson; Neutral
What city had the first stop sign and traffic light? What year was the first stop sign placed? (419)
Detroit; 1915
Roosevelt made new plans for America. He called his new plans and programs a “_____________________”? (439)
Which president dedicated the Statue of Liberty in 1886?
Grover Cleveland
In 1893 a group of people called ___________ took control of Hawaii. They hoped that Hawaii would eventually become part of the _______________________________. (362)
1.) Revolutionaries
2.) United States
Only two countries have more land than America. They are ______________ and ________________. (370)
Russia and Canada
After the sinking of the Lusitania, some Americans began to change their minds and the United States declared war on ____________________. America was then part of the ______________ War .(398)
Germany; Great
How did Carl Fisher think he could encourage people to buy more automobiles? (419)
By showing them how fast they could go
During the 1930’s, middle America experienced the disaster of the “_________________”? (444)
"Dust Bowl"
Approximately how many immigrants came through Ellis Island? (338)
12 Million
Which U.S. president encouraged the revolutionaries? (362)
Harrison
Wilbur and Orville Wright’s flyer first flew for _______ seconds and traveled _________ feet from where it took off. (376)
12; 120 Feet
An armistice is an agreement to stop fighting in a war.
TRUE FALSE
True
In 1910 pilots were brought to the Indianapolis Speedway for an aviation show. One of the Wright Brothers’ pilots set a new flight height record. How high did he fly? (420)
4,938 ft
Hundreds of thousands of people left their homes and farms and headed to _____________________. (444)
California
Ellis Island was an _____________
___________ in New York harbor through which millions of immigrants passed to start their lives in America. (337)
Immigration Station
Which president signed a bill that made Hawaii part of the United States? (363)
McKinley
Lewis Hine told his stories through ___________________. (380)
Photos
How did Eduoard Izac escape from the prisoner of war camp? (404)
Crawled under a barbed wire fence
Why was mining coal a dangerous job? (423)
BONUS* What was used to alert the coal miners to poisonous gas in the air?
Explosions; Poisonous Gas; Cave In
*Canaries
Many people called the newcomers “______________,” since many of them came from _______________________. (444)
"Okies"; Oklahoma