Transcript Second Nine Weeks History Review

State SOL History
Review
USII.4e-USII.6d
1. What are the negative
effects of industrialization?
• Child labor
• Low wages, long hours
• Unsafe working conditions
2. What major labor union
was formed?
• American Federation of
Labor—
supported/fought for
higher wages, shorter
hours, and better
working conditions
2. What important strike
took place?
• Homestead Strike violent strike that 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 – women could
further their education towards
careers
• Attained voting rights
4. What amendment gave
women these rights?
•The Nineteenth
Amendment
th
(19 )
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- called
attention to the EVILS of
Alcohol
• Supported which
amendment? The Eighteenth
(18th) Amendment
th
18
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
(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
• 8. Theodore Roosevelt
expanded the Monroe
Doctrine as a way to
prevent European
involvement in the affairs
of Caribbean and South
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.
• 9. (continued)
• b. Claimed the United States’
right to exercise police power
(use of military).
• c. Advocated the “Big Stick”
Diplomacy (building of the
Panama Canal).
10. Give 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
• The Zimmerman Telegram
11. Who were the WWI
Allies?
• Great Britain
• Serbia
• France
• Belgium
• Russia
* USA
11. Who were the Central
Powers during WWI?
• Germany
• Austria-Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Ottoman Empire (also known as Turkey)
• 12. At the end of WWI,
President Woodrow Wilson
prepared a peace plan that
called the Fourteen Points
that called for the formation
of the League of Nations – a
peace-keeping 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?
• Because the United States
Senate failed to ratify the
Treaty.
15. List 4 results of improved
transportation brought by
affordable automobiles:
• 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 and
the rise of mechanization?
• Henry Ford
18. List 3 communication
changes.
• Increased availability of
telephones
• Development of movies
• Development of radio (Marconi)
and the broadcast industry
(Sarnoff)
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
Amendment
What Amendment
repealed it?
st
• The 21 Amendment
th
18
22. What are speakeasies?
• Places for people to drink
illegal alcoholic beverages
23. What (Who) are
bootleggers?
• They 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 and mid-western cities
for employment opportunities
(jobs)
• African Americans also faced
discrimination and violence in
the North and Midwest.
25. Georgia O’Keeffe
• Art—artist known for urban
and later southwest scenes
25. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Literature—novelist who
wrote about the Jazz Age of
the 1920’s
25. John Steinbeck
• Literature—novelist who
wrote about poor migrant
family problems during the
1930’s and the Great
Depression
25. Aaron Copland
• Music: American composer
who wrote uniquely
American music in the
1920’s & 1930’s.
25. George Gershwin
• Music: American composer
who wrote uniquely
American music in the 1920’s
and 1930’s.
25. Jacob Lawrence
• Art: African American
painter who chronicled the
Great Migration through art
25. Langston Hughes
• Literature: African American
poet who combined African
and American cultural roots
25. Duke Ellington
• Music: Blues and Jazz
composer
25. Louis Armstrong
• Music: Blues and Jazz
composer
25. Bessie Smith
• Music: Blues and Jazz
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 (initiated by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Social Security
• Federal Work Programs
• Environmental Improvement
Plans
• Farms Assistance Programs
• Increased Rights for Labor
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USII.3c-USII.3d
USII.3c “Jim Crow”
• 1. Discrimination against
African Americans continued
after:
Reconstruction
2. What is racial
segregation?
• Based on race
• Directed primarily against
African Americans, but
other groups also kept
segregated
2. (continued)
• Also, American Indians
were not considered
citizens until 1924.
3. Why were “Jim Crow” laws passed?
• To discriminate against
African Americans.
Although these laws were
legal in many communities,
they were enforced
primarily in the Southeast
region.
4. “Jim Crow “ laws were
characterized by unequal
opportunities in:
• Housing
• Work
• Education
• Government
5. African American responses
included:
• Booker T. Washington
believed equality could be
achieved through
vocational education, and
accepted social separation
5. Continued…
W.E.B. Dubois
believed in full political, civil,
social rights for African
Americans
• 6. Between the Civil War
and WWI, the US was
transformed
from an agricultural
to an industrial nation.
7. 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
• Cornelius Vanderbilt– shipping
•
and railroads
7. (con’t) List 4 reasons for the
rise and prosperity of big
business.
• Advertising
• Lower-cost production
8. List 4 factors resulting in
the growth of industry.
• Access to raw materials and
energy
• Availability of work force due
to immigration
• Inventions
• Financial resources provided
by the Captains of Industry
9. What is the BEST title for
the following list?
Examples
of
Big
Business
_______________________
railroad
oil
steel
10. What are 3 postwar
changes in farm and city life?
• 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
• Write the region for
each of the following:
11. Meatpacking
• The Midwest
12. New York
• The Northeast
13. Automobile
Midwest
14. Jim Crow
• Southeast
15. San Francisco
Pacific
16. Textile Industry
• Northeast
17. Denver
• Western/
Rocky Mountain
18. Harlem Renaissance
•
Northeast
19. Atlanta
• Southeast
20. Great Plains
• Midwest
21. Ellis Island
• Northeast
22. Hull House
• Midwest
23. Steel Industry
• Northeast
24. Homestead Strike
• Northeast
25. New Orleans
• Southeast
26. Juneau
• Non-contiguous
27. New England
• Northeast
28. Boston
• Northeast
29. Pittsburgh
• Northeast
30. Detroit
• Midwest
31. Santa Fe
• Southwest
32. Salt Lake City
• Western/Rocky
Mountains
33. Los Angeles
• Pacific
34. Honolulu
• Non-contiguous
35. Philadelphia
• Northeast
36. Angel Island
• Pacific
37. Washington D.C.
• Southeast
38. St. Louis
• Midwest
39. San Antonio
• Southwest
40. Seattle
• Pacific
41. Chicago
• Midwest
42. Nebraska
• Midwest
43. Ohio
• Midwest
44. Maine
• Northeast
45. Florida
• Southeast
46. North Dakota
• Midwest
47. Oklahoma
• Southwest
48. Suffolk, Virginia
Southeast
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