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5th Grade Social Studies Review Unit 4 & 5 Turn of the Century
5th Grade Social Studies Review Unit 4 & 5 Turn of the Century
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This test is a review for 5th grade social studies WWI and Turn of the Century.
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1
Who was known for inventing electricity?
Alexander Graham Bell
the Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
George Washington Carver
2
Who was known for impacting the way people communicated by inventing the telephone?
The Wright Brothers
George Washington Carver
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
3
This is created when a company merges all competing companies into 1 area of business
Philanthropy
Clue
Monopoly
Bessemer Process
4
This was instrumental in building skyscrapers to help cities grow
Asphalt
The Bessemer Process
Tenements
Concrete
5
What famous battle did the U.S. suffer a deadly defeat from the Sioux Indians ?
The Spanish American War
The Alamo
The Civil War
The Battle of Little Bighorn
6
The nickname for the period of history from 1885-1910 is what?
The Dark Age
The Guilded Age
The Great Depression
The Silver Age
7
What was the Great Western Trail and the Chisholm Trail used for?
Moving cattle from Transcontinental Railroad to Chicago
Moving cattle from Montana to Nebraska
Moving cattle from Texas to California
Moving cattle from Texas to the Transcontinental Railroad
8
Who was
Langston Hughes?
A famous poet during the Harlem Renaissance
A famous inventor
A baseball player for the New York Yankees
A jazz musician
9
Why would cowboys drive their cattle to Kansas?
People in Kansas bought lots of beef
Kansas had a railhead and they made money selling them East
Kansas had a railhead and they made money selling them West
Kansas had the largest meat factory in the U.S.
10
Which laws were created in the south, enforcing segregation?
Freedman's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
John Brown Laws
Emancipation Proclamation
11
Which was not one of the major cattle trails?
Chisolm
Great Western
Shawshank
Goodnight-Loving
12
What was the name of the famous chief in charge of the Nez Pierce Nation.
Sitting Bull
Tecumseh
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
13
What was not one of the reasons for the end of big cattle drives?
Mad Cow Disease
Freezing Temperatures
Barbed Wire
More Railroads
14
Many freed slaves moved west and became cattle ranchers or ranch hands. They became known as...
African Cowboys
Black Cowboys
Vaqueros
Cow Pokes
15
What did the U.S. gain from the Spanish American War?
Guam, Puerto Rico, Phillipines
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
Texas and Arizona
California, Nevada, New Mexico
16
What is a monopoly?
A company owned by only 1 person
A company run by 2 people
Many people sharing a business
A never ending game
17
Legislation that intended to restrict immigration, particularly Chinese immigrants.
Gentlemen s agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Labor Strikes
18
Cowboys of the Great Plains were often what nationality?
Russian
Asian
Canadian
African American
19
What were the names of the two major immigration stations in the United States?
Angel and Ellis
Ellis and Elson
Angle and Ellis
New York and San Francisco
20
Why was the Homestead Act important?
Paid $100 and lived in Great Plains for 2 yrs=160 acres land
Paid $10 and lived in Great Plains for 5 yrs=160 acres land
Paid $20 and lived in Great Plains for 5 yrs=120 acres land
It gave former slaves the right to vote
21
The Panama Canal separated which continents?
Mexico and Brazil
North America and South America
South America and Europe
North America and Europe
22
Which was the first president to get the U.S. involved in a foreign war?
George Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Howard Taft
William McKinley
23
Who created a company selling oil?
Winston
Rockefeller
Ford
Carnegie
24
Who were the leaders during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
General Grant and Jeronimo
General Lee and Chief Joseph
Colonel Sanders and Haiwatha
General Custer and Sitting Bull
25
What was the
Lusitania?
The first plane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
The first battle of WWI
A ship holding US passengers that was attacked
A ship that sunk after hitting an iceberg
26
Charles Lindbergh was famous for flying from which cities?
New York to London
Paris to New York
Atlanta to Los Angeles
New York to Paris
27
Louis Armstrong was famous for what?
playing jazz music
writing poetry
building cars
playing baseball
28
What occurred in 1929, causing the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal
The Stock Market Crash
The Harlem Renaissance
29
Henry Ford was famous for inventing which of the following?
Assembly Lines
All of the above
The first affordable automobile
The Model T
30
Where did the first successful airplane flight take place?
Kitty Hawk, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
31
Why did the US join WWI?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Germany invaded Poland
Germany attacked a ship with American aboard
Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated
32
Which country was NOT controlled by Spain?
Jamaica
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Guam
33
An organization of workers that protect workers rights is called
Confederacy
Perish
Gang
Union
34
What name is given for using images and videos to join a war?
persuasion
pleading
proportions
propaganda
35
Where did the transcontinental Railroad meet in 1869?
Salt Lake City, Utah
Denver, Colorado
St Louis, Missouri
Promontory Point, Utah
36
How did Teddy Roosevelt improve transportation?
He completed the Suez Canal
He created the interstate system
He completed the Transcontinential Railroad
He completed the Panama Canal
37
Theodore Roosevelt fought in which war?
Spanish American War
WWII
WWI
Revolutionary War
38
Who invented a new system of sending messages via dots and dashes
Thomas Edison
Nicoli Tesla
Samuel Morse
Alexander Bell
39
He was a robber baron who controlled the oil industry.
Wilbur Wright
Andrew Carneigie
Eugene Debs
John Rockerfeller
40
What method of communication preceded the telephone and used a system of dots and dashes?
Pony Express
Telegraph
Modem
Telecommunication
41
What was the name of the famous chief in charge of the Souix Nation.
Tecumseh
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
42
Which inventor was famous for working with peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Wilbur Wright
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
43
Who was known for inventing the first successful airplane?
Alexander Graham Bell
The Wrong Brothers
The Wright Brothers
George Washington Carver
44
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
22nd
14th
15th
45
Why was the Transcontinental Railroad important?
It helped transport goods and people in the United States
It transported people to and from Mexico.
It allowed people to travel to Canada
It helped slaves escape to freedom.
46
What city boomed at the turn of the century due to its steel industry?
Pittsburg
Philidelphia
New York
Washington D.C.
47
General George Custer and 200 men died in this battle also known as Custer's Last Stand
Wounded Knee Massacre
Battle of Antietam
Little Big Horn
Sand Creek Massacre
48
Why was the Treaty of Versailles important?
It officially ended WWI
It severely punished Germany for WWI
All of the above
It ultimately caused WWII
49
Which baseball player held the home run record for many years?
Bo Jackson
Babe Ruth
Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
50
Landowners allowing freed slaves to work for food and money was know as?
Scalawags
Freedman's Bureau
crop dusting
sharecropping
