True/False
Event/War
Political Movement
Short Answer
Multiple Choice
100

The botanist who found 285 uses for the peanut was Cyrus McCormick.

False

George Washington Carver


100

November 11, 1918

World War I

100

Tojo

Militarism

100

The inventor of the first liquid-fuel rocket

Robert Goddard

100

Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with _?_. 

Japan

200

The Asian country controlled by the Soviet Union in the north and the United States in the south was Japan.

False

Korea

200

The Rough Riders

Spanish-American War

200

Japan

Militarism

200

The black inventor who founded Tuskegee Institute 

Booker T. Washington

200

He captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Sam Houston

300

Although Nazism was defeated in World War II, Fascism became a growing problem.

False

Communism

300

The Zimmermann Note

World War I

300

Russia

Communism


300

Inventor of the electric light bulb

Thomas Edison

300

He wrote the first major American dictionary

Noah Webster 

400

The organization formed at the of of World War II that was supposed to help settle world problems was the The United Nations

True

400

The Holocaust

World War II

400

Germany

Nazism


400

The inventor of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

400
The purchase of 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States was the _?_.

Louisiana Purchase

500

The Communist leader who took over China after World War II was Mao Tse-tung

True


500

The Monitor and the Merrimac

Civil War

500

Italy

Fascism


500

The inventor of the first successful steamboat

Robert Fulton

500

He was the author of a children's reading series used in American in the 1800s. 

William McGuffey