Abeka Grade 8 America Land I Love Test 9

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El Salvador

10

When did World War I begin ?

1914

When did the Great Depression begin ?

1929

Spanish - American War

2

Wright brothers first successful powered flight

3

Costa Rica

4

Jamaica

4

opening of Panama Canal

4

Bolshevik Revolution

5

Cuba

5

Caribbean Sea

6

Panama

8

Puerto Rico

8

Nicaragua

9

Who is the author of Wealth of Nations ?

Adam Smith

Who invented the telephone ?

Alexander Graham Bell

The greatest American war hero from World War I was from eastern Tennessee

Alvin York

Who built the largest steel company in the world ?

Andrew Carnegie

How did the automobile change American lives ?

Automobiles ended the isolation of farms and small towns

all Who was baseball's first great home run hitter ?

Babe Ruth

The famous baseball player who became an evangelist was ?

Billy Sunday

Who gave the Atlanta Compromise speech ?

Booker T. Washington

What name was given to the countries that sided with Germany in World War I ?

Central powers

The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was ?

Charles Lindbergh

passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act

Chester Arthur

A fire in 1871 destroyed the city of ?

Chicago

Which state earned the title Centennial State ?

Colorado

What idea promotes a utopian classless society where government is unnecessary ?

Communism

The amendment that banned the sale of alcohol was the Amendment

Eighteenth

All member bank accounts were insured for up to $ 5,000 through the

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

proposed the New Deal program

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whose assassination led to the beginning of World War I ?

Franz Ferdinand

served two nonconsecutive terms

Grover Cleveland

lectured against evolution in colleges and universities

Harry Rimmer

What did President Hoover believe was the best way to help those in need during the Great Depression ?

He believed that families , churches , charities , and neighbors should help those in need

What president was referred to as the Great Humanitarian ?

Herbert Hoover

What act further opened the Great Plains for settlement ?

Homestead Act

Which major shortcoming of the Kellogg - Briand Pact led to its eventual failure to prevent future wars ?

It ignored man's sin nature

investigated Communist activities in America

J. Edgar Hoover

Who formed the Standard Oil Company in 1869 ?

John D. Rockefeller

led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I

John J. Pershing

organized the Committee for Industrial Organizations

John L. Lewis

The socialist economist in Great Britain who influenced the " brain trust " was ?

John Maynard Keynes

wrote The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

What nation was promised American land in return for helping Germany in World War I ?

Mexico

The first transcontinental railroad was completed at Utah

Promontory Summit

What country left World War I after signing the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk ?

Russia

The first successful national labor union was organized by

Samuel Gompers

The law which required all men from twenty - one to thirty years old to register with a draft board was the ?

Selective Service

An inexpensive method for turning iron ore into steel was developed by ?

Sir Henry Bessemer

What amendment gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes ?

Sixteenth

What act created a government fund for unemployment and old - age insurance ?

Social Security Act

What government project brought hydroelectric power to the mid - South ?

Tennessee Valley Authority

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

promoted a Square Deal

Theodore Roosevelt

What terrorist organization was dedicated to worldwide Communist revolution ?

Third Communist International

Who invented the first successful incandescent light bulb ?

Thomas Edison

Where was the treaty that ended World War I signed ?

Versailles

The NAACP was founded by

W. E. B. Du Bois

remembered for the Teapot Dome Scandal

Warren G. Harding

promoted dollar diplomacy

William H. Taft

The lawyer that won the Scopes Trial was ?

William Jennings Bryan

proposed the League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson

What government project built roads , bridges , public buildings , and other structures ?

Works Progress Administration

The first state to grant full political privileges to women was

Wyoming

What are the profits that are earned on stocks ?

dividends

President McKinley favored what as the standard to back U.S. currency ?

gold

What is a rapid increase of prices due to an increase in the amount of money in circulation called ?

inflation

A company that has complete control over a market is called a

monopoly

The Populist Party promoted the free coinage of ?

silver

The practice of buying risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit is known as

speculation

Where was the first battle of the Spanish - American War fought ?

the Philippines

Gulf of Honduras

1

Haiti

1

World's Fair

1


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