Hamilton Prep Social Studies - 2Nd Semester Final 7Th Grade

7th Grade Social Studies - 2nd Semester Study Guide Industrialization and Immigration in the U.S. Key terms: Trust

Monopoly

Philanthropist

Corporation robber baron sweatshop socialism transcontinental railroad

People: John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Eugene Debs

Concepts immigrants who worked on the transcontinental railroad

Carnegie’s business methods vs. Rockefeller’s business methods the Haymarket affair’s effects on the labor union movement meaning of the Gilded Age negative effects of monopolies on consumers impact of the Bessemer steel process on the nation's economic growth origins of standard time and its effects effects of the transcontinental railroad on Native Americans

1 push and pull factors of migration negative effects of immigration on American society the relationship between immigrants and industrialization conditions of immigrant housing

The Progressive Era Amendments: Sixteenth

Seventeenth

Eighteenth

Nineteenth

People/groups: Muckrakers

Jane Addams

Lillian Wald

Concepts: Carry Nation’s support for prohibition how the Federal Reserve Act changed banking

Wilson’s support of the 19th Amendment

Cause of Theodore Roosevelt passing the Meat Inspection Act

How Theodore Roosevelt’s use of the Sherman Antitrust Act affected Standard Oil

Theodore Roosevelt, the Bull Moose Party, and the 1912 election meaning of Theodore Roosevelt’s square deal

Taft and the 1908 election

2 Becoming a World Power People/groups: The Anti-Imperialist League

The Rough Riders

Jose Marti

Concepts: locations of major battles in the Spanish-American War how yellow journalism caused the war why American planters removed Queen Liliuokalani from power impact of the Roosevelt Corollary and the Monroe Doctrine

Reason Filipinos supported the Americans in the war

John Hay’s Open Door Policy

Commodore Matthew Perry’s involvement in Japan

Significance of the Platt Amendment

Meaning of “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”

Causes of the Boxer Rebellion

Reason for U.S. involvement in revolt against Columbia

“Seward’s Icebox”

Effects of George Dewey’s victory in Manila Bay

World War I Key Terms: Convoy

Armistice

Palmer Raids

3 Second Battle of the Marne

Great Migration

Treaty of Versailles

People/groups: John J. Pershing

American Expeditionary Forces

Concepts: Imperialist rivalries that caused the war

German actions that angered the Americans

How war bonds helped the war

How Americans at home helped with the war effort

War technology and its connection to militarism

War technology and its impact on warfare

Significance of the Zimmerman Telegram

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

How Franz Ferdinand’s assassination connects to nationalism as a cause of the war

The Great Depression In the first section, you will be interpreting graphs (multiple choice). Key terms: deficit spending

New Deal

Dust Bowl

Stock Market Crash of 1929

4 Bonus Army

sit-down strike

Liberal

Concepts: Hoover as the “do-nothing” president

Purpose of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Region where the Dust Bowl was located

Event that began WWII in Europe

Social Security and the Second New Deal

Social Security’s impact today

Popularity of radio during the Great Depression

How WWII helped end the Great Depression

Major effects of the Great Depression

Geography Ocean that European immigrants crossed to get to America

Ocean that Asian immigrants crossed to get to America

Great Britain’s geographic advantage during WWI

Major mountain range railroads cross between the Midwest and the west coast

5 Note: there are 100 multiple choice questions on your final.