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Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
 

 1. 
What did Orville and Wilber Wright invent?
 a.
sewing machine
 c.
airplane
 b.
submarine
 d.
movies
 

 2. 
By 1900 which country was the leading industrial country in the world?
 a.
France
 d.
United States
 b.
Mexico
 e.
England
 c.
Canada
 

 3. 
How long did the Spanish American War last?
 a.
one year
 c.
four months
 b.
four weeks
 d.
four years
 

 4. 
What did they call women who pushed for a woman’s right to vote?
 a.
liberated women
 c.
woman libs
 b.
conservative women
 d.
suffragettes
 

 5. 
At the start of the 20th century which country offered the greatest hope for the common man?
 a.
France
 d.
England
 b.
United States
 e.
Russia
 c.
Germany
 

 6. 
What country was the leader in the number of technological innovations?
 a.
France
 c.
Germany
 b.
Great Britain
 d.
United States
 

 7. 
Who was the most prominent black reformer at turn of the century?
 a.
W.E.B. Dubois
 c.
Jessie Jackson
 b.
Ted Roosevelt
 d.
Booker T. Washington
 

 8. 
What territories did the U.S. get control of as a result of the Spanish American War? (pick 3)
 a.
Panama
 d.
Puerto Rico
 b.
Hawaii
 e.
Philippines
 c.
Guam
 

 9. 
What was the status of organized labor in turn of the century industrial America?
 a.
the unions were weak
 c.
there were too many unions
 b.
there were no unions
 d.
the unions were very strong
 

 10. 
How did Theodore Roosevelt feel about war with Spain?
 a.
He did not care about the issue
 c.
He favored war
 b.
He cared but ignored the issue
 d.
He opposed it
 

 11. 
What were the laws called that kept blacks and whites segregated in the South?
 a.
Jim Crow Laws
 c.
Miranda Rights
 b.
Freedom of Speech
 d.
Black laws
 

 12. 
To whom were libraries available in America?
 a.
Everyone
 c.
All non immigrants
 b.
Mostly the educated
 d.
Mostly the rich
 

 13. 
What was the name of the group of soldiers organized by TR to fight in the Spanish American War?
 a.
the Light Brigade
 c.
the Rough Riders
 b.
the Big Red One
 d.
the Contra Rebels
 

 14. 
What country had one third of the railroad tracks in the world?
 a.
Russian Siberian Railroad
 c.
Italy Alps Railway
 b.
England railway system
 d.
United States
 

 15. 
Which president built the Panama Canal?
 a.
Hoover
 c.
Franklin Roosevelt
 b.
Teddy Roosevelt
 d.
McKinley
 

 16. 
What did WEB Dubois urge black people to do?
 a.
join the Democrat party
 c.
struggle for freedom
 b.
keep quiet and learn a trade
 d.
go to college and keep the peace
 

 17. 
How did President McKinley feel about war with Spain?
 a.
none of these are true
 c.
He wanted war
 b.
He ignored the issue
 d.
He opposed war
 

 18. 
What was Henry Fords great manufacturing idea?
 a.
Women in the workplace
 c.
The assembly line
 b.
Child Labor
 d.
Time studies
 

 19. 
What war was called the War to End All Wars?
 a.
Civil War
 c.
World War One
 b.
Spanish American War
 d.
World War Two
 

 20. 
Who made the automobile available to all people, not just the rich?
 a.
Henry Ford
 c.
Thomas Edison
 b.
Wm. Honda
 d.
John Rockefeller
 



 
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