Fifth Grade Quiz Bowl Social Studies Round One

Question 1

Alexander Bell's idea for a talking telegraph led to what important invention?

Accepted Answer

telephone

Question 2

Which of the choices below was an effect of the settlement of the West?

Accepted Answer

boomtowns

Question 3

Andrew Carnegie was best known for his involvement in which of the following industries?

Accepted Answer

steel

Question 4

What did the US do as a result of the attack on the US on September 11, 2001?

Accepted Answer

invaded Afghanistan

Question 5

What innovation allowed Model T's to be produced quickly?

Accepted Answer

assembly line

Question 6

What was President Wilson hoping to accomplish by entering WW1?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to maintain the US's policy of isolationism.

Question 7

Which era is characterized by women's right to vote, Harlem Renaissance, and Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Roaring Twenties

Question 8

Why did many banks have to close during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Banks owners withdrew their money.

Question 9

Which of the following was an aim of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

rebuild the South after the end of the Civil War

Question 10

Which of the following was an ally of the US in WWII?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 11

Who invented the electric light, phonograph, and movie camera?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 12

Who was the first person to walk on the moon?

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

Question 13

The KKK was a secret organization formed after Reconstruction? What was it formed to do?

Accepted Answer

to intimidate black voters

Question 14

Which of the following did Martin Luther King, Jr. lead?

Accepted Answer

the civil rights movement

Question 15

Which of the following Constitutional amendments ended slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Thirteenth Amendement

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