Unit 3 Turn Of The Century Question Preview (ID: 44286)


Cattle Trails, Inventors, Spanish American War, Panama Canal, Immigration. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Who was a member of the Rough Riders that helped defeat the Spanish?
a) Nat Love
b) William McKinley
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) George Washington

Many European immigrants found jobs here after settling in cities...
a) farms
b) schools
c) factories
d) businesses

Which president was responsible for the building of the Panama Canal?
a) McKinley
b) Roosevelt
c) Wilson
d) Washington

This war led to America becoming a world power because we beat a European country in their land.
a) Civil War
b) Revolutionary War
c) Vietnam War
d) Spanish-American War

This person was president during the Spanish-American War
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) William McKinley
d) Abraham Lincoln

When immigrants came to America, their living conditions were usually
a) good
b) poor
c) okay
d)

Which of the following countries did NOT become a US territory as a result of the Spanish-American War?
a) Guam
b) Puerto Rico
c) Philippines
d) Cuba

As a result of Thomas Edison's lightbulb, factories could
a) close earlier
b) stay open longer hours
c) produce less goods
d) fire more workers

Where did the Wright Brothers fly the first engine powered airplane?
a) New York City
b) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
c) Dayton, Ohio
d) France

Why was the Panama Canal built?
a) to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in order to improve trade
b) to give Panama independence
c) to help give Panama's people jobs.
d) to connect the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Yellow Journalism helped start this war
a) Panama War
b) Cuban War
c) Spanish American War
d) Civil War

What gave ranchers in Texas an incentive to move their cows along cattle trails towards the east ?
a) no one ate beef in Texas
b) lower prices for beef in the east
c) increased prices for beef in the east.
d) decreased demand for beef in the east.

How did McKinley make America a world power?
a) by defeating Spain in the Spanish American War
b) by building the Panama Canal
c) by buying a lot of land from Spain
d) by talking Congress into buying Hawaii

Ranchers took their cows
a) to the railroads so they could be shipped
b) directly to the east
c) to factories
d) to the coast so they could be loaded on boats

The Chisolm Trail allowed ranchers to bring their cows to the railroad in
a) Nebraska
b) Kansas
c) Oklahoma
d) the east

Which country gained independence as a result of the Spanish American War?
a) Guam
b) Puerto Rico
c) Philippines
d) Cuba

Immigrants from Asia, especially China, settled in
a) the east
b) the south
c) the north
d) the west

George Washington Carver benefitted who the most?
a) businesses
b) military
c) farmers
d) factories

Dominance means
a) to give up
b) to have power over others
c) to prevent defeat
d) to give away

As a result of the Spanish American War
a) America gained dominance in the western hemisphere
b) America gained dominance in the eastern hemisphere
c) America gained dominance in the northern hemisphere
d) America gained dominance in the southern hemisphere

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