List the Cities in the Midwest Region
List the cities in the Midwest region. / Chicago, St. Louis , Detroit
What region is New Orleans found in? / Southeast
List the states found in the Rocky Mountain region. / Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada
What did Robert E. Lee urge Southerners to do at the end of the Civil War? / He urged them to reconcile with the North
Describe Frederick Douglass’ Legacies / Answers will vary – might say “equal rights for all”
List 4 policies of Reconstruction. / Answers will vary
1. Southern military leaders could not hold office.
2. African Americans could hold public office.
3. Freedmen’s Bureau esatablished
4. Northern soldiers supervised the South.
What law was passed during Reconstruction that gave African Americans equal rights? / Civil Rights Act of 1866
Great Plains / Western Expansion
Who was looking for a ‘new beginning’ out West? / Former enslaved African Americans
Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains NOT as a _____________________ but as a __________________________. / Treeless wasteland ; vast area to be settled
TRUE / FALSE: The cotton gin was an invention that had an effect on farming in the Great Plains. / False
9. Put the events in order:
-Factories receive natural resources
-Finished products are shipped to national markets
-Natural resources are shipped to factories
-Factories make a finished product / 1. Natural resources are shipped to factories
2. Factories receive natural resources
3. Factories make a finished product
4. Finished products are shipped to national markets
The completion of the _______________________ allowed valuable minerals, iron ore, and other products to be shipped to factories in the East. / Transcontinental Railroad
Conflicts with Native Americans
General George A. Custer and the U.S. Army were defeated in which battle? / Battle of Little Bighorn
Which tribe was led by Chief Joseph? / Nez Perce
When did Native Americans gain citizenship in the United States? / 1924
Growth of Cities /Progressive Era
Explain the differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. What did they have in common/similarities? / Booker T. Wash. = learn a trade
WEB DuBois =full rights
BOTH = believed African Americans should have increased rights.
List three reasons why cities developed. / 1. Specialized industries
2. Immigration
3. Urbanization
What made discrimination against African Americans legal in the South even after the passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments? / Plessy v. Ferguson / Jim Crow Laws
What Movement tried to get an Amendment passed that made alcohol illegal? / Temperance Movement
List 4 negative impacts of industrialization. / 1. Child labor
2. Low wages,
3. long hours
4. Unsafe working conditions
Name the three Big Businesses. / Oil, Steel, & Railroads
Define the 19th Amendment. / Women’s Suffrage
What is another name for someone who smuggled alcohol into the USA during Prohibition? / Bootlegger
What increased during Prohibition with the appearance of speakeasies and bootleggers? / Organized crime
Place the following in order:
-18th Amendment ratified
-21st Amendment repealed
-19th Amendment ratified
-Progressive Movement ends / 1. 18th Amendment ratified
2. 19th Amendment ratified
3. 21st Amendment
4. Progressive Movement ends
Spanish American War / World War I
Define ‘yellow journalism’. / Exaggerated news stories
Define the Roosevelt Corollary. / • asserted the United States’ right to interfere in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas
• claimed the United States’ right to exercise international police power
• advocated Big Stick Diplomacy (building the Panama Canal
List the territories gained by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish American War. / Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
What policy did the U.S. practice at the beginning of WWI? / Isolationism
List the reasons the USA joined WWI. / -U-boat warfare
-Couldn’t stay neutral
-ties to Great Britain
Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria fought for what alliance in WWI? / Central Powers
U.S. involvement in WWI ended a long tradition of _______?______ European conflicts.
(think about our policy of isolation) / avoiding
Name the peacekeeping plan at the end of WWI that President Wilson created that included the League of Nations. / 14 Points
Inventions Change American Life / 1920’s
What was the Harlem Renaissance? / Time period when African Americans revealed the freshness and variety of their culture thru music, art, and literature.
What were F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck known for? / Literature
List 4 examples of ‘Labor-Saving Products’ found in America in the 1920’s. / Washing machines, electric stoves, water pumps , vacuums
What happened to the price of the automobile after Henry Ford’s assembly line? / Price dropped
Who was known for paintings of urban scenes and the Southwest? / Georgia O’Keeffe
Great Depression
Put the following events in order:
-Great Depression
-Prohibition repealed
-Stock Market crash
-New Deal created / 1. Stock Market crashed
2. Great Depression
3. Prohibition repealed
4. New Deal created
What was the primary purpose of the WPA & CCC (New Deal) programs? / Create Jobs
What caused the Great Depression? / 1. people used borrowed money to buy stock
2. high tariffs decreased trade
3. Federal Reserve failed
World War II
Put the following in order:
-Battle of Britain
-Invasion of Poland
-Invasion of France / 1. Invasion of Poland
2. Invasion of France
3. Battle of Britain
Stalingrad
Cause – High war debt owed by Germany after WWI
What was the effect? / Left Germany unstable and devastated
Use the list of WWII Leaders and match them to their country:
Allies
1) Franklin D. Roosevelt
2) Winston Churchill
3) Joseph Stalin
4) Harry Truman
Axis
5) Adolf Hitler
6) Benito Mussolini
7) Hideki Tojo / 1) USA
2) Great Britain
3) Soviet Union
4) Harry Truman
5) Germany
6) Italy
7) Japan