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Benchmark Exam
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Review 1 Nine Weeks
USII.4e-USII.6d
1. What are the negative
effects of industrialization?
• Child labor
• Low wages, long hours
• Unsafe working conditions
2. Rise of Organized Labor
*Formation of Labor Unions-the
American Federation of Labor
Supported/fought for higher wages,
shorter hours, and better working
conditions.
*Strikes- The Homestead Strike ended
with non-union workers accepting
lower wages.
3. What were the
Progressive Movement
workplace reforms?
• Improved safety conditions
• Reduced work hours
• Restrictions on child labor
4. What opportunities did
women gain during
women’s suffrage?
• Increased educational
opportunities
• Attained voting rights
4. What amendment gave
women these rights?
• The nineteenth amendment
4. Who worked for women’s
suffrage?
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5. The Temperance
Movement
• Composed of groups
opposed to the making and
consuming of alcohol
• Supported which
amendment? The eighteenth
amendment
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5. What did the
amendment do?
• Prohibited the
manufacture, sale, and
transport of alcohol.
6. What were the causes for
the Spanish American War?
• Protection of American business
interests in Cuba
• American support of Cuban rebels
to gain independence from Spain
• Rising tensions as a result of the
sinking of the USS Maine
• Exaggerated news reports called
YELLOW JOURNALISM
7. What were the results of
the Spanish American war?
• The USA emerged as a world
power
• Cuba gained independence from
Spain
• US gained possession of
Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
7a. Where did the Spanish
American War take place?
CUBA
8. Theodore Roosevelt’s
Foreign Policies
• Theodore Roosevelt
expanded the Monroe
Doctrine as a way to prevent
European involvement in the
affairs of Latin American
countries.
9.
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policies and their
impact on the United States included the Roosevelt
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine which states:
• A. Asserted the United States right to
interfere in economic matters of nations in
the Americas.
• B. Claimed the United States’ rights to
exercise international police power (use of
military)
• C. Advocated the “Big Stick” Diplomacy
(building of the Panama Canal)
10. Give the 4 reasons the
USA got involved in WWI.
• Inability to remain neutral
• German submarine warfare—sinking
of the Lusitania
• US economic and political ties to
Great Britain
• Zimmerman Telegram
11. Who were the WWI
Allies?
• British Empire (Great Britain)
• Serbia
• France
• Belgium
• Russia
* USA
11. Who were the Central
Powers during WWI?
• German Empire
• Austria-Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Ottoman Empire
11a. When the US joined
WWI, which side did they
join?
• The USA joined on the side
of the Allies.
• 12. At the end of WWI,
President Woodrow Wilson
prepared a peace plan
known as the 14 Points that
called for the formation of
the League of Nations, a
peacekeeping organization.
13. Which country did not
join the League of Nations?
• The United States
14. Why didn’t the above
country join the League of
Nations?
• The United States
Senate failed to ratify
the Treaty of Versailles
15. List 4 results of improved
transportation.
• Greater mobility
• Creation of jobs
• Movement to suburban areas
• Growth of transportation
related industries (oil, steel,
road construction)
16. Why are the Wright
Brothers well known?
• Invention of the Airplane
17. Who was known for the
use of the assembly line,
automobile and rise of
mechanization?
• Henry Ford
18. List 3 communication
changes.
• Increased availability of
telephones
• Development of movies
• Development of radio and the
broadcast industry
19. List 4 ways electrification
changed American life.
• Labor saving products
(electric stove, water pump,
washing machine)
• Electric lighting
• Entertainment (radio)
• Improved communication
20. What is prohibition?
• Prohibition made it illegal
to manufacture, transport,
and sell alcoholic
beverages
21. What amendment did
Prohibition uphold?
• The eighteenth amendment
• What amendment repealed
st
it? The 21 Amendment
22. What are speakeasies?
• Places for people to drink
illegal alcoholic beverages
23. What (Who) are
bootleggers?
• People who smuggled
illegal alcohol and
promoted organized crime.
24. List 4 facts about the
Great Migration.
• Jobs for African Americans
in the South were scarce and
low paying.
• African Americans faced
discrimination and violence
in the South.
24. List 4 facts about the
Great Migration(continued).
• African Americans moved to
northern cities for employment
opportunities (jobs)
• African Americans also faced
discrimination and violence in the
North.
25. Georgia O’Keeffe
• Art—artist known for urban
and later southwest scenes
25. F Scott Fitzgerald
• Literature—novelist who
wrote about the 1920’s
25. John Steinbeck
• Literature—novelist who
wrote about migrant
workers in the 1930’s
25. Aaron Copland
• Music: Uniquely American
Music
25. George Gershwin
• Music: Uniquely American
Music
25. Jacob Lawrence
• Art: painter who chronicled
the Great Migration
25. Langston Hughes
• Literature: poet who
combined African and
American cultural roots
25. Duke Ellington
• Music: Jazz composer
25. Louis Armstrong
• Music: Jazz composer
25. Bessie Smith
• Music: Blues singer
26. List the causes of the
Great Depression.
• People overspeculated on stocks
using borrowed money they
couldn’t repay when stock prices
crashed
• The Federal Reserve failed to
prevent the collapse of the banking
system
• High tariffs strangled international
trade
27. List 4 ways the Great
Depression impacted Americans
• A large number of banks and
businesses failed
• ¼ or 25% of workers were without
jobs
• Large numbers of people were
hungry and homeless
• Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels
28. List 5 major features of
the New Deal.
• Social Security
• Federal Work Programs
• Environmental Improvement
Plans
• Farms Assistance Programs
• Increased Rights for Labor
First Quarter
Benchmark SOL’s on
the First Nine Weeks
Test
USII.3b, 4c-USII.4d
1. Reconstruction Policies and
Problems included:
• A. Southern military leaders could not
old office
• B. African Americans could hold public
office
• C. African Americans gained equal
rights as a result of the Civil Rights Act
of 1866, which also authorized the use
of Federal troops for its enforcement
Reconstruction Policies and Problems
Cont:
• D. Northern soldiers supervised the South
• E. The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to
aid former enslaved African Americans in the
South
• F. Southerners resented Northern
“carpetbaggers”, who took advantage of the
South during Reconstruction
• G. Southern states adopted Black Codes to
limit the economic and physical freedoms of
former slaves.
2. The End of Reconstruction
• A. Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a
result of a compromise over the
outcome of the election of 1876.
• B. Federal troops were removed from
the South.
• C. Rights that African Americans had
gained were lost through “Jim Crow”
laws.
3. Discrimination against
African American continued
after:
• Reconstruction or The Civil
War
4. What is racial
segregation?
*Based upon race
*Directed primarily against
African Americans, but
other groups were also
kept segregated.
5. “Jim Crow” laws were
passed to discriminate
against African Americans.
• Although these laws were
legal in many communities
and states, they were
enforced primarily in the
South/Southeast region.
6. “Jim Crow” laws were
characterized by unequal
treatment in what 4 areas?
• Housing
• Work
• Education
• Government
7. African American
responses included:
*Booker T. Washington
Believed equality could be
achieved through vocational
education; accepted social
separation.
7. *W.E.B. Dubois
Believed in full political, civil,
social rights for African
Americans
• 8. Between the Civil War
and WWI, the US was
transformed
from an agricultural
to an industrial nation.
9.. List 4 reasons for the rise
and prosperity of big business.
• National markets created by
transportation advances.
• Captains of Industry
• John D. Rockefeller—oil
• Andrew Carnegie—steel
• Henry Ford--automobile
9. List 4 reasons for the rise
and prosperity of big business
(con’t)
• Advertising
• Lower-cost production
10. . List 4 factors resulting in the
growth of industry.
• Access to raw materials
and energy
• Availability of workforce
• Inventions
• Financial resources
provided by the Captains of
Industry.
11. Examples of Big
Business:
*railroads
*oil
*steel
12. Industrialization and the rise of
big business influenced life on
American farms by:
• Mechanization (the reaper)—reduced
farm labor needs and increased
production
• Industrial development in cities
increased labor needs.
• Industrialization provided access to
consumer goods such as mail order.
USII.2c Regions Review
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14. Meatpacking- Midwest
15. New York City- Northeast
16. Automobile industry- Midwest
17. Jim Crow Laws- Southeast
18. San Francisco- Pacific
19. Textile industry- Northeast
20. Denver- Western/Rocky Mountains
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21. Harlem Renaissance- Northeast
22. Atlanta- Southeast
23. Great Plains- Midwest
24. Ellis Island (NY)- Northeast
25. Hull House (Chicago)- Midwest
26. Steel industry- Northeast
27. Homestead Strike (PA)- Northeast
28. New Orleans- Southeast
29. Juneau- Non-contiguous
30. New England- Northeast
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31. Boston- Northeast
32. Pittsburgh- Northeast
33. Detroit- Midwest
34. Santa Fe- Southwest
35. Salt Lake City- Western/Rocky Mountains
36. Los Angeles- Pacific
37. Honolulu- Non-contiguous
38. Philadelphia- Northeast
39. Angel Island, CA- Pacific
40. Washington D.C.- Southeast
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41. St. Louis- Midwest
42. San Antonio- Southwest
43. Seattle- Pacific
44. Chicago- Midwest
45. Nebraska- Midwest
46. Ohio- Midwest
47. Maine- Northeast
48. Florida- Southeast
49. North Dakota- Midwest
50. Oklahoma- Southwest
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