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5 Written Questions

1. industrial age inventor who improved the lives of many people by improving the stock ticker and inventing the lightbulb
2. part of the League of Nations that said that if any nation was attacked, the other countries in the treaty would defend them; the US did not join the League of Nations because of it
3. made the "Cross of Gold" speech to let people know that farmers were important
4. archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause for World War I
5. wrote the "Red Record" to describe illegal hangings or lynchings

5 Matching Questions

1. Jacob Riis
2. Jane Addams
3. William Gorgas
4. Andrew Carnegie
5. George Goethals

1. a founded the Hull House to help people help themselves
2. b doctor who helped to eradicate yellow fever by killing the mosquitoes that carried it. ; he directed sanitation efforts in Panama
3. c an Army engineer with experience building locks; took over after Stevens resigned
4. d wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to describe the horrible conditions of the tenements
5. e man who formed a steel empire and controlled all phases of steel production, became one of the world's richest men

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. president during World War I; made the Fourteen Points and the Versailles Treaty
   1. Jacob Riis
   2. Ida B Wells
   3. Thomas Edison
   4. Woodrow Wilson
2. the entry point for United States immigrants where they were inspected and marked, papers were checked, and where they entered the United States
   1. Ellis Island
   2. William Gorgas
   3. William Tweed
   4. Ida B Wells
3. owner of the Standard Oil monopoly and trust
   1. Jacob Riis
   2. Ida Tarbell
   3. JD Rockefeller
   4. Ida B Wells
4. took on the Panama Canal project after the French ran out of money; he was a politician who later became president; also a big conservationist who helped to conserve forests
   1. George Goethals
   2. Theodore Roosevelt
   3. JD Rockefeller
   4. Thomas Edison
5. "breaking the color line" ; he was forceful and wanted the people to be forceful too; started the NAACP
   1. Jane Addams
   2. Jacob Riis
   3. Ida Tarbell
   4. Web Dubois

5 True/False Question

1. Ida Tarbell → wrote the "Red Record" to describe illegal hangings or lynchings
   

   True        False

2. Samuel Gompers → founded the Hull House to help people help themselves
   

   True        False

3. Upton Sinclair → wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to describe the horrible conditions of the tenements
   

   True        False

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps → builder of the Suez canal, led the Panama Canal project; wanted a sea level canal but had to stop because he ran out of money
   

   True        False

5. Cornelius Vanderbilt → organized the American Federation of Labor or AFL
   

   True        False