Unit 10 & 11- 5th grade

Question 1

What did the Transcontinental Railroad help develop in America?

Accepted Answer

Economic Growth

Question 2

Who found more than 300 uses for peanuts?

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 3

Who was president during the Great Depression? He was elected to four terms!

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 4

What system allows people to start their own business, own property, and set their own prices?

Accepted Answer

Free Enterprise System

Question 5

Jane Addams is important because

Accepted Answer

She helped the homeless and immigrants.

Question 6

Why were the Tuskegee Airmen important?

Accepted Answer

It was the first time African Americans were pilots in a war

Question 7

Who invented the phonograph?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 8

What big event occured in between WW1 and WW2?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 9

The Dust Bowl was caused by________?

Accepted Answer

drought and humans over farming

Question 10

The United States entered ___________ after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Accepted Answer

WW2

Question 11

A shoe store is having a sale on last year's styles. What is the supply & demand for them?

Accepted Answer

The demand goes down, and supply goes up.

Question 12

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the sinking of the Lusitania are causes of what war

Accepted Answer

WW1

Question 13

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 14

What did mass production help do in the United States?

Accepted Answer

It made production faster and more affordable.

Question 15

Who were the first people to fly across the Atlantic OCean in a heavier-than-air machine?

Accepted Answer

The Wright Brothers

Question 16

What amendment to the Constitution gave the right to vote to Women?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

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