Test 8 - People

Question 1

Who is associated with the term “Cross of Gold”?

Answer 1

William Jennings Brian

Question 2

Who is associated with the term “ Czar … Speaker of the House
“?

Answer 2

Thomas Reed

Question 3

Who is associated with “Black Friday”?

Answer 3

Jay Gould

Question 4

Who is credited with passing the Pendleton Act?

Answer 4

Chester Arthur

Question 5

Who founded the Grange?

Answer 5

Oliver Kelley

Question 6

What secretary of state negotiated the purchase of Alaska?

Answer 6

William Seward

Question 7

What commodore led the U.S. Navy to victory in the Philippines?

Answer 7

George Dewey

Question 8

What colonel was the leader of the Rough Riders?

Answer 8

Leonard Wood

Question 9

Who became the first civil governor of the Philippines?

Answer 9

William H. Taft

Question 10

What President summarized his foreign policy with the slogan: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Answer 10

Roosevelt

Question 11

What President sent the “Great White Fleet” on its world tour in 1907?

Answer 11

Roosevelt

Question 12

Who was the Civil War hero elected President in 1868?

Answer 12

U.S. Grant

Question 13

Who was the first Democrat to be elected President after the Civil War?

Answer 13

Grover Cleveland

Question 14

Which Presidential candidate was one of the greatest orators of all time?

Answer 14

Williams Jennings Bryan

Question 15

Who is credited with eliminating yellow fever from Cuba?

Answer 15

Walter Reed

Question 16

Which President was assassinated in 1901?

Answer 16

William McKinley

Question 17

What army engineer was appointed to take charge of building the Panama Canal?

Answer 17

George W. Goethals

Question 18

What Englishman discovered the Hawaiin islands in 1778?

Answer 18

Captain James Cook

Question 19

Who was the Presidential candidate for the Democrats in 1896?

Answer 19

William Jennings Bryan

Question 20

What President is best remembered for his attempts to reform the civil service program?

Answer 20

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 21

Who was the only President to serve two terms not in direct succession?

Answer 21

Grover Cleveland

Question 22

What bandit did General Pershing chase into Mexico?

Answer 22

Pancho Villa

Question 23

Besides the Presidential administrations of Roosevelt and Wilson, what other presidential administration was progressive in nature?

Answer 23

Taft’s

Question 24

Who was Roosevelt’s forester?

Answer 24

Gifford Pinchot

Question 25

Who wrote “The Jungle”?

Answer 25

Upton Sinclair

Question 26

Who invented the wireless telegraph?

Answer 26

Guglielmo Marconi