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6th grade exam pract
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Element of SS concerned with the production, consumption, and distribution, goods services and flow of MONEY. $$$$$ | Economics |
| Element of SS that is concerned with the study of conducting of policies and action of country, state, territory. city, or organization | government |
| SS term that is concerned with the study of past events. | History |
| SS term that is concerned with the study of rights, duties of a citizen. | Civics |
| SS term that is related to the study of land areas, locations, and physical features of the Earth such as Mountains, deserts, rivers, and oceans. | Geography |
| Extending power by gaining territories to build an empire (taking blocks) | Imperialism |
| Avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs/ business (MYOB) | Isolation |
| Aggressive strengthening of armed forces | Militarism |
| during the early 1800's, the US placed a few restrictions on immigration station where most European immigrants entered in the US.. | Ellis island in NYC |
| A factory that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings was called what? | Triangle shirtwaist fire |
| The transcontinental RR was completed in 1896 when the Centric pacific RR and the Union pacific RR met in Premonty Utah. Where did they hammer in there to celebrate this great achievement? | Gold spike |
| The destruct of what American ship directly led to the start of the Spanish war. | USS MAINE |
| A term that came to describe journalist who ranked up and exposed corruption and problems of society was called what? | Muckrakers |
| A muckraker, Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the nasty conditions in a meat packing plants. It was called what? | The jungle |
| What were the M.A.I.N causes of WW1? | Militarism, Alliances, imperialism, Nationalism |
| Whose assination sparked WW1. | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| The Zimmerman note/ Telegram, Germany invited what country into alliance | Mexico |
| At the end of WW1 Woodrow Wilson promised the League Of Nations (now referred to United Nations) what was their purpose? | To find peaceful solutions to disagreements |
| What did the 19th amendment do? | Allowed women to vote. |
| Henry Ford is credited for his ______________ which is greatly reduced the cost of automobiles. | Assembly line |
| The 1st Nation Labor Union with the leader, Terence V. POWDERLY was called what? | Knights Of Labor |
| One infamous boss that ran political machines which were a powerful organization that was used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office, went by what name? | Boss Tweed |
| What did the 17th amendment do? | Allowed Americans to vote for US Senators |
| Jocob Rills wrote about life in ______________ in his book HOW THE OTHERHALF LIVES? | Tenements |
| If you're injured on the job, you are guaranteed lost wages in the __________________________ law. | Workers' compensation |
| What did the 18th amendment ban?? | The production or sales of alcohol |
| On august 15, 1914, the _____________________ ____________________ was complete which linked the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and was called the "highways between the oceans.". | Panama Canal |
| A type of warfare when you defend you defend your position by fighting from protection of deep ditches.? | Trench Warfare |
| Why did the US eventually enter WW1 on April 6, 1917? | Because the Germans continued to sink our ships, then wrote the Zimmerman note encouraging Mexico to join with them in return for land they have lost in he war they had with us. |
| In 1917, this required men between the ages of 21-30 to register to be drafted.? | Selective service act |
| What program of mass murder in which Nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population in Europe called? | Holocaust |
| During the great depression, a massive DUST storm that swept the region with intense depletion of the top soil in the Midwest led to what historical event? | Dust bowl |
| What day of the week was described as "black" after the stock market investors bought the stocks on margin causing the crash of the market?? | Black Tuesday |
| What US president proposed the NEW DEAL (alphabet agencies) that brought the country out of the Great Depression? | FDR |
| What was the name of severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930'2 was called what? | Great Depression |
| The nazi party was super fascist political system what does fascist mean? | A system where government id more important than the people |
| The allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France, 1944, is historically known as? | D-Day |
| During the Cuban missile crisis, what country was asked to removed nuclear weapons from Cuba? | SU |
| A harbor in Hawaii that served as an military base that was bombed by Japan on Dec 7, 1941. | Pearl Harbor |
| Japan piolets that purposely crashed piloted planes into enemy planes were called what? | Kamikaze |
| The phrase __________ __________ came to describe the struggle of power between SU and US? | Cold war |
| Countries that are still communist till this day. | LAOS, VIETNAM, CUBA , CHINA, NORTH KOREA |
| FDR created this to provide some financial security for the elderly, the disabled, children, the unemployed is the? | Social security act |
| A barrier in 1961, that divided Eat and west berlin that was torn down in 1891 was called what? | Berlin wall |
| The first man to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| The amendment that changed voting age from 21 years to 18. | 26th amendment |
| Everyone is different. | Capitalism |
| Everyone owns the same thing | Communism |
| A group of African American piolets that flew missions in WW1 was called what? | Tuskegee airmen |
| Henry Ford's affordable automobile the ____________ _. | Model T |
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