US History Q3 Nine Weeks Study Guide Regions

List the cities in the Midwest region. Chicago, St. Louis , Detroit

Southeast What region is New Orleans found in?

List the states found in the Rocky Mountain Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, region. Colorado, Nevada

What did Robert E. Lee urge Southerners to He urged them to reconcile with the do at the end of the Civil War? North

Answers will vary – might say “equal Describe Frederick Douglass’ Legacies rights for all”

Answers will vary 1. Southern military leaders could not hold office. 2. African Americans could hold public List 4 policies of Reconstruction. office. 3. Freedmen’s Bureau esatablished 4. Northern soldiers supervised the South. What law was passed during Reconstruction Civil Rights Act of 1866 that gave African Americans equal rights? Great Plains / Western Expansion

Who was looking for a ‘new beginning’ out Former enslaved African Americans West?

Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains NOT as a Treeless wasteland ; vast area to be ______but as a settled ______.

TRUE / FALSE: The cotton gin was an invention that had an effect on farming in False the Great Plains. 9. Put the events in order: 1. Natural resources are shipped to factories -Factories receive natural resources 2. Factories receive natural resources 3. Factories make a finished product -Finished products are shipped to national markets -Natural resources are shipped to factories 4. Finished products are shipped to national markets -Factories make a finished product The completion of the ______allowed valuable minerals, iron ore, and other Transcontinental Railroad products to be shipped to factories in the East. Conflicts with Native Americans

General George A. Custer and the U.S. Army Battle of Little Bighorn were defeated in which battle?

Nez Perce Which tribe was led by Chief Joseph? When did Native Americans gain citizenship in the United States? 1924

Growth of Cities /Progressive Era

Booker T. Wash. = learn a trade Explain the differences between Booker T. WEB DuBois =full rights Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. What did BOTH = believed African Americans they have in common/similarities? should have increased rights.

1. Specialized industries List three reasons why cities developed. 2. Immigration 3. Urbanization

What made discrimination against African Americans legal in the South even after the Plessy v. Ferguson / Jim Crow Laws passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments? What Movement tried to get an Amendment Temperance Movement passed that made alcohol illegal? 1. Child labor 2. Low wages, List 4 negative impacts of industrialization. 3. long hours 4. Unsafe working conditions

Oil, Steel, & Railroads Name the three Big Businesses. Define the 19th Amendment. Women’s Suffrage

What is another name for someone who Bootlegger smuggled alcohol into the USA during Prohibition?

What increased during Prohibition with the Organized crime appearance of speakeasies and bootleggers? Place the following in order: 1. 18th Amendment ratified -18th Amendment ratified 2. 19th Amendment ratified -21st Amendment repealed 3. 21st Amendment -19th Amendment ratified 4. Progressive Movement ends -Progressive Movement ends Spanish American War / World War I

Exaggerated news stories Define ‘yellow journalism’.

• asserted the United States’ right to interfere in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas Define the Roosevelt Corollary. • 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 Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines end of the Spanish American War.

What policy did the U.S. practice at the Isolationism beginning of WWI?

-U-boat warfare List the reasons the USA joined WWI. -Couldn’t stay neutral -ties to Great Britain Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria Central Powers fought for what alliance in WWI?

U.S. involvement in WWI ended a long avoiding tradition of ______?______European conflicts. (think about our policy of isolation) Name the peacekeeping plan at the end of WWI that President Wilson created that 14 Points included the League of Nations. Inventions Change American Life / 1920’s Time period when African Americans revealed the freshness and variety of What was the Harlem Renaissance? their culture thru music, art, and literature. What were F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Literature Steinbeck known for? List 4 examples of ‘Labor-Saving Products’ Washing machines, electric stoves, found in America in the 1920’s. water pumps , vacuums What happened to the price of the automobile after Henry Ford’s assembly Price dropped line? Who was known for paintings of urban Georgia O’Keeffe scenes and the Southwest? Great Depression Put the following events in order: 1. Stock Market crashed -Great Depression 2. Great Depression -Prohibition repealed 3. Prohibition repealed -Stock Market crash 4. New Deal created -New Deal created What was the primary purpose of the WPA Create Jobs & CCC (New Deal) programs?

1. people used borrowed money to What caused the Great Depression? buy stock 2. high tariffs decreased trade 3. Federal Reserve failed

World War II Put the following in order: 1. Invasion of Poland -Battle of Britain 2. Invasion of France -Invasion of Poland 3. Battle of Britain -Invasion of France Stalingrad Cause – High war debt owed by Germany after WWI Left Germany unstable and devastated What was the effect? Use the list of WWII Leaders and match them to their country: Allies 1) USA 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt 2) Great Britain 2) Winston Churchill 3) Soviet Union 3) Joseph Stalin 4) Harry Truman 4) Harry Truman Axis 5) Germany 5) Adolf Hitler 6) Italy 6) Benito Mussolini 7) Japan 7) Hideki Tojo