Benchmark Exam Review 1st Nine Weeks

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Benchmark Exam Review 1st Nine Weeks

• 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. Rise of Organized Labor

• Formation of Labor Unions-the American
  Federation of Labor Supported/fought for higher
  wages, shorter hours, and better working
  conditions.
• Strikes- The Homestead Strike 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
• Attained voting rights

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4. What amendment gave women these rights?

• The nineteenth 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
• Supported which amendment? The eighteenth
  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 called 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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7a. Where did the Spanish American War take
place?
CUBA
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8. Theodore Roosevelts Foreign Policies

• Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine
  as a way to prevent European involvement in the
  affairs of Latin 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.
• B. Claimed the United States rights to exercise
  international police power (use of military)
• C. Advocated the Big Stick Diplomacy (building
  of the Panama Canal)

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10. Give the 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
• Zimmerman Telegram

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11. Who were the WWI Allies?

• British Empire (Great Britain)
• Serbia
• France
• Belgium
• Russia USA

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11. Who were the Central Powers during WWI?

• German Empire
• Austria-Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Ottoman Empire

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11a. When the US joined WWI, which side did they
join?

• The USA joined on the side of the Allies.

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• 12. At the end of WWI, President Woodrow Wilson
  prepared a peace plan known as the 14 Points that
  called for the formation of the League of
  Nations, a peacekeeping 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?

• The United States Senate failed to ratify the
  Treaty of Versailles

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15. List 4 results of improved transportation.

• 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, automobile and rise of mechanization?

• Henry Ford

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18. List 3 communication changes.

• Increased availability of telephones
• Development of movies
• Development of radio and the broadcast industry

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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 eighteenth 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?

• People who 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 cities for
  employment opportunities (jobs)
• African Americans also faced discrimination and
  violence in the North.

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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 1920s

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25. John Steinbeck

• Literaturenovelist who wrote about migrant
  workers in the 1930s

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25. Aaron Copland

• Music Uniquely American Music

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25. George Gershwin

• Music Uniquely American Music

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25. Jacob Lawrence

• Art painter who chronicled the Great Migration

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25. Langston Hughes

• Literature poet who combined African and
  American cultural roots

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25. Duke Ellington

• Music Jazz composer

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25. Louis Armstrong

• Music Jazz composer

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25. Bessie Smith

• Music Blues 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.

• Social Security
• Federal Work Programs
• Environmental Improvement Plans
• Farms Assistance Programs
• Increased Rights for Labor

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First Quarter Benchmark SOLs on the First Nine
Weeks Test

• USII.3b, 4c-USII.4d

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1. Reconstruction Policies and Problems included

• A. Southern military leaders could not old
  office
• B. African Americans could hold public office
• C. African Americans gained equal rights as a
  result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which
  also authorized the use of Federal troops for its
  enforcement

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Reconstruction Policies and Problems Cont

• D. Northern soldiers supervised the South
• E. The Freedmens Bureau was established to aid
  former enslaved African Americans in the South
• F. Southerners resented Northern
  carpetbaggers, who took advantage of the South
  during Reconstruction
• G. Southern states adopted Black Codes to limit
  the economic and physical freedoms of former
  slaves.

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2. The End of Reconstruction

• A. Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of a
  compromise over the outcome of the election of
  1876.
• B. Federal troops were removed from the South.
• C. Rights that African Americans had gained were
  lost through Jim Crow laws.

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3. Discrimination against African American
continued after

• Reconstruction or The Civil War

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4. What is racial segregation?

• Based upon race
• Directed primarily against African Americans,
  but other groups were also kept segregated.

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5. Jim Crow laws were passed to discriminate
against African Americans.

• Although these laws were legal in many
  communities and states, they were enforced
  primarily in the South/Southeast region.

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6. Jim Crow laws were characterized by unequal
treatment in what 4 areas?

• Housing
• Work
• Education
• Government

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7. African American responses included

• Booker T. Washington
• Believed equality could be achieved through
  vocational education accepted social separation.

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7. W.E.B. Dubois

• Believed in full political, civil, social rights
  for African Americans

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8. Make sure you have colored your map correctly!
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USII.2c Regions Review

• 9. Meatpacking- Midwest
• 10. New York City- Northeast
• 11. Automobile industry- Midwest
• 12. Jim Crow Laws- Southeast
• 13. San Francisco- Pacific
• 14. Textile industry- Northeast
• 15. Denver- Western/Rocky Mountains

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Regions Review

• 16. Harlem Renaissance- Northeast
• 17. Atlanta- Southeast
• 18. Great Plains- Midwest
• 19. Ellis Island (NY)- Northeast
• 20. Hull House (Chicago)- Midwest
• 21. Steel industry- Northeast
• 22. Homestead Strike (PA)- Northeast
• 23. New Orleans- Southeast
• 24. Juneau- Non-contiguous
• 25. New England- Northeast

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Regions Review

• 26. Boston- Northeast
• 27. Pittsburgh- Northeast
• 28. Detroit- Midwest
• 29. Santa Fe- Southwest
• 30. Salt Lake City- Western/Rocky Mountains
• 31. Los Angeles- Pacific
• 32. Honolulu- Non-contiguous
• 33. Philadelphia- Northeast
• 34. Angel Island, CA- Pacific
• 35. Washington D.C.- Southeast

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Regions Review

• 36. St. Louis- Midwest
• 37. San Antonio- Southwest
• 38. Seattle- Pacific
• 39. Chicago- Midwest
• 40. Nebraska- Midwest
• 41. Ohio- Midwest
• 42. Maine- Northeast
• 43. Florida- Southeast
• 44. North Dakota- Midwest
• 45. Oklahoma- Southwest

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46. Suffolk, Virginia

• Southeast!

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