5th Grade Social Studies- History Makers

Question 1

What was the Amendment that abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

13th

Question 2

What are the first few words of the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

"We the People"

Question 3

Who was the president during World War 1?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 4

Who was the 18th president?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 5

Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 6

Who was the dictator of Italy during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Benito Mussolini

Question 7

When was Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan?

Accepted Answer

December 7, 1941

Question 8

True or False: During World War II only Jewish people died.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Who was the president during Westward Expansion?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 10

True or False: Alexander Graham Bell created the streetcar.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

True or False: Prince Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

True or False: Germany was part of the Allied Powers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stallin

Question 14

Who won the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Union

Question 15

Which two places did President Harry Truman decide to drop atomic bombs?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 16

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 17

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

To Hitler, who were true German people?

Accepted Answer

The Aryan Race

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