State SOL History Review

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State SOL History Review

• USII.4e-USII.6d

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1. What are the negative effects of
industrialization?

• Child labor
• Low wages, long hours
• Unsafe working conditions

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2. What major labor union was formed?

• American Federation of Laborsupported/fought
  for higher wages, shorter hours, and better
  working conditions

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2. What important strike took place?

• Homestead Strike -
• violent strike that ended with non-union
  workers accepting lower wages

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3. What were the Progressive Movement workplace
reforms?

• Improved safety conditions
• Reduced work hours
• Restrictions on child labor

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4. What opportunities did women gain during
womens suffrage?

• Increased educational opportunities women could
  further their education towards careers
• Attained voting rights

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4. What amendment gave women these rights?

• The Nineteenth (19th) Amendment

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Who worked for womens suffrage?

• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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

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5. What did the 18th amendment do?

• Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport
  of alcohol.

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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)

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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

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• 8. Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe
  Doctrine as a way to prevent European involvement
  in the affairs of Caribbean and South American
  countries.

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• 9. Theodore Roosevelts 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.

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• 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).

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10. Give 4 reasons the USA got involved in WWI.

• Inability to remain neutral
• German submarine warfaresinking of the Lusitania
• US economic and political ties to Great Britain
• The Zimmerman Telegram

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11. Who were the WWI Allies?

• Great Britain
• Serbia
• France
• Belgium
• Russia USA

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11. Who were the Central Powers during WWI?

• Germany
• Austria-Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Ottoman Empire (also known as Turkey)

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• 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

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13. Which country did NOT join the League of
Nations?

• The United States

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14. Why didnt the above country join the League
of Nations?

• Because the United States Senate failed to ratify
  the Treaty.

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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)

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16. Why are the Wright Brothers well known?

• Invention of the Airplane

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17. Who was known for the use of the assembly
line and the rise of mechanization?

• Henry Ford

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18. List 3 communication changes.

• Increased availability of telephones
• Development of movies
• Development of radio (Marconi) and the broadcast
  industry (Sarnoff)

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19. List 4 ways electrification changed American
life.

• Labor saving products (electric stove, water
  pump, washing machine)
• Electric lighting
• Entertainment (radio)
• Improved communication

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20. What is Prohibition?

• Prohibition made it illegal to manufacture,
  transport, and sell alcoholic beverages

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21. What amendment did Prohibition uphold?

• The 18th Amendment
• What Amendment repealed it?
• The 21st Amendment

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22. What are speakeasies?

• Places for people to drink illegal alcoholic
  beverages

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23. What (Who) are bootleggers?

• They smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted
  organized crime.

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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.

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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.

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25. Georgia OKeeffe

• Artartist known for urban and later southwest
  scenes

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25. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Literaturenovelist who wrote about the Jazz Age
  of the 1920s

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25. John Steinbeck

• Literaturenovelist who wrote about poor migrant
  family problems during the 1930s and the Great
  Depression

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25. Aaron Copland

• Music American composer who wrote uniquely
  American music in the 1920s 1930s.

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25. George Gershwin

• Music American composer who wrote uniquely
  American music in the 1920s and 1930s.

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25. Jacob Lawrence

• Art African American painter who chronicled the
  Great Migration through art

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25. Langston Hughes

• Literature African American poet who combined
  African and American cultural roots

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25. Duke Ellington

• Music Blues and Jazz composer

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25. Louis Armstrong

• Music Blues and Jazz composer

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25. Bessie Smith

• Music Blues and Jazz singer

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26. List the causes of the Great Depression.

• People overspeculated on stocks using borrowed
  money they couldnt repay when stock prices
  crashed
• The Federal Reserve failed to prevent the
  collapse of the banking system
• High tariffs strangled international trade

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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

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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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First Nine Weeks SOLs on the Second Nine Weeks
Test

• USII.3c-USII.3d

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USII.3c Jim Crow

• 1. Discrimination against African Americans
  continued after
• Reconstruction

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2. What is racial segregation?

• Based on race
• Directed primarily against African Americans,
  but other groups also kept segregated

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2. (continued)

• Also, American Indians were not considered
  citizens until 1924.

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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.

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4. Jim Crow laws were characterized by
unequal opportunities in

• Housing
• Work
• Education
• Government

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5. African American responses included

• Booker T. Washington
• believed equality could be achieved through
  vocational education, and accepted social
  separation

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5. Continued

• W.E.B. Dubois
• believed in full political, civil, social
  rights for African Americans

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• 6. Between the Civil War and WWI, the US was
  transformed
• from an agricultural
• to an industrial nation.

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7. List 4 reasons for the rise and prosperity of
big business.

• National markets created by transportation
  advances.
• Captains of Industry
• John D. Rockefelleroil
• Andrew Carnegiesteel
• Henry Fordautomobile
• Cornelius Vanderbilt shipping
• and railroads

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7. (cont) List 4 reasons for the rise and
prosperity of big business.

• Advertising
• Lower-cost production

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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

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9. What is the BEST title for the following list?
Examples of Big Business

• _______________________
• railroad
• oil
• steel

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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

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• Write the region for each of the following

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11. Meatpacking

• The Midwest

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12. New York

• The Northeast

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13. Automobile Midwest
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14. Jim Crow

• Southeast

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15. San Francisco Pacific
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16. Textile Industry

• Northeast

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17. Denver

• Western/
• Rocky Mountain

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18. Harlem Renaissance

• Northeast

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19. Atlanta

• Southeast

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20. Great Plains

• Midwest

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21. Ellis Island

• Northeast

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22. Hull House

• Midwest

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23. Steel Industry

• Northeast

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24. Homestead Strike

• Northeast

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25. New Orleans

• Southeast

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26. Juneau

• Non-contiguous

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27. New England

• Northeast

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28. Boston

• Northeast

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29. Pittsburgh

• Northeast

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30. Detroit

• Midwest

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31. Santa Fe

• Southwest

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32. Salt Lake City

• Western/Rocky Mountains

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33. Los Angeles

• Pacific

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34. Honolulu

• Non-contiguous

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35. Philadelphia

• Northeast

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36. Angel Island

• Pacific

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37. Washington D.C.

• Southeast

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38. St. Louis

• Midwest

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39. San Antonio

• Southwest

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40. Seattle

• Pacific

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41. Chicago

• Midwest

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42. Nebraska

• Midwest

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43. Ohio

• Midwest

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44. Maine

• Northeast

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45. Florida

• Southeast

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46. North Dakota

• Midwest

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47. Oklahoma

• Southwest

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48. Suffolk, VirginiaSoutheast
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