Abeka Grade 8 America Land I Love Test 9
El Salvador
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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
