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Grade 5 Modern Era
With construction from 1956 to 1992, I-70 can claim to be both the first interstate started and the last to be completed based on the original plans.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
The Highway Trust Fund, which funds repairs for interstate highways, gets its revenue primarily from what source?
  1. tolls
  2. gas taxes
  3. bond sales
  4. speeding tickets
Grade 5 Modern Era
The first roads ever funded by the federal government were the Interstate Highway System.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
Alaska is the only state without an interstate.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
The interstate system has over 48,000 miles of roadway.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
I-78 in New York is the busiest interstate in the country.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
Who twice tried to claim to have invented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph instead of Granville T. Woods?
  1. Nikola Tesla
  2. James S. Zerbe
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. George Westinghouse
Grade 5 Modern Era
What was the name of the publisher who promoted Amelia Earhart's flights?
  1. Anita Snook
  2. H.L. Menken
  3. George Putnam
  4. Charles Lindbergh
Grade 5 Modern Era
The number for even number interstates increase in the north.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
Who was the Wisconsin Senator that announced that there were hundreds of communists inside the U.S. government?
  1. John F. Kennedy
  2. Joseph McCarthy
Grade 5 Modern Era
The highest ranking African American military leader during the Persian Gulf War. And in 2001 he became the first African American secretary of state.
  1. Colin Powell
  2. Blanch K. Bruce
  3. Thurgood Marshall
Grade 5 Modern Era
How did Clara Barton convince President Chester A. Arthur to allow her to form an American Red Cross?
Grade 5 Modern Era
In 1974 the Watergate scandal forced President Richard Nixon to resign from office.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Modern Era
In 1865, Clara Barton was appointed to head what agency dedicated to identifying soldiers buried in unmarked graves?
Grade 5 Modern Era
Why did passenger rail service in the United States decline beginning in the 1950s?
Grade 5 Modern Era
What song is traditionally sung during the first few minutes of a new year?
Grade 5 Modern Era
The internet brought the worldwide network of computers; became popular in the 1990s.
  1. True
  2. False
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