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USII.1-9 Year End Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • Barbed wire • Steel plows • Dry farming • Sod houses • Beef cattle raising • Wheat farming • Windmills • Railroads | Inventions and adaptations of westward expansion |
| • Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west • Land eroded by wind and water • Low rainfall • Frequent dust storms | Physical features and climate of the Great Plains |
| Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains not as a “_____” but as a vast area to be settled. | treeless wasteland |
| Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Cities: New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia | Northeast Region |
| Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas Cities: Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans | Southeast Region |
| Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota Cities: Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit | Midwest Region |
| Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona Cities: San Antonio, Santa Fe | Southwest Region |
| Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho Cities: Denver, Salt Lake City | Rocky Mountains Region |
| Washington, Oregon, California Cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle | Pacific Region |
| Alaska, Hawaii Cities: Juneau, Honolulu | Noncontiguous Region |
| Textile industry | New England |
| Automobile industry | Detroit |
| Steel industry | Pittsburgh |
| The _____Amendment bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories. | 13th |
| The _____ Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law. | 14th |
| The _____ Amendment ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. | 15th |
| Provided aid former enslaved African Americans in the South. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| What was passed that made discrimination practices legal in many communities and states? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Who urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the Civil War and later became president of Washington College? | Robert E. Lee |
| • land ownership • Technological advances - Transcontinental Railroad • Possibility of obtaining wealth, created by the discovery of gold and silver • Desire for adventure • Desire for a new beginning forformer enslaved African Americans | Reasons for Westward Expansion |
| Homelands became smaller through broken treaties Populations were reduced through diseases and warfare Policy of assimilation was attempted | Examples of how lives of American Indians changed with westward expansion |
| Escape from oppressive governement Hope for better opportunities Desire for religious freedom | Reasons for increased immigration after the Civil War |
| steel = | Andrew Carnegie |
| Oil = | John D. Rockefeller |
| Automobile = | Henry Ford |
| Light Bulb = | Thomas Edison |
| Telephone service electric lighting mechanical uses of electricity | Inventions that led to great change and industrial growth |
| • Child labor • Low wages, long hours • Unsafe working conditions | Negative effects of industrialization |
| What was the impact of washing machines, electric stoves, & water pumps on daily life? | Labor-saving devices |
| Name the event that led to the U.S. involvement in WWI. | Sinking of the Lusitania |
| Peace keeping organization post WWI | League of Nations |
| U.S. right to interfere in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas and right to exercise international police power | Roosevelt Corollary |
| The U.S. emerged as a world power following which event | Spanish American War |
| Germany Austo -Hungarian Empire Bulgaria Ottoman Empire | Central Powers - WWI |
| British Empire France Russia Servia Belgium U.S. | Allied Powers - WWII |
| Government program started by FDR to help nation recover from the Great Depression | New Deal |
| People over speculation on stocks and could not repay when stock prices crashed Federal Reserve filed to prevent collapse of banking system High tariffs discouraged international trade | Causes of the Great Depression |
| Women gained the right to vote | 19th Amendment |
| • Speakeasies were created as places for people to drink alcoholic beverages. • Bootleggers made and smuggled alcohol illegally and promoted organized crime. | Results of prohibition |
| For African Americans : * jobs in South scarce & low paying * faced discrimination & violence in the South * moved to cities in the North and Midwest for jobs *faced discrimination & violence in the North and Midwest | Reasons for Great Migration |
| United States, Great Britain, Canada, Soviet Union | Allied Powers WWII |
| Germany, Italy, Japan | Axis Powers |
| political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied and nationalism and, often, racism are emphasized. | Fascism |
| Event that forced Japan to surrender and end WWII? | U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan |
| Need for workers during WWII resulted in | breaking down of racial barriers |
| The U.S. joined WWII after which event | Bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan |
| Turning point over Japan in WWII | Battle of Midway |
| Systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews | Holocaust |
| Worldwide depression – High war debt owed by Germany – High inflation – Massive unemployment | Causes fo WWII |
| What provided financial aid to rebuild European economies after WWII | Marshal Plan |
| Japan became a ____ after WWII with the U.S. | strong ally |
| Which president desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces? | Harry S. Truman |
| formed near the end of World War II to create a body for the nations of the world to try to prevent future global wars. | United Nations |
| American & Allied Troops land in Normandy, France | D-Day |
| _____occurred when the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba. The Soviets removed the missiles in response to a U.S. blockade of Cuba. | The Cuban Missile Crisis |
| U.S. intervened to stop the spread of communism into South Vietnam | Vietnam War |
| educational benefits, housing benefits, employment benefits | G.I. Bill of Rights |
| Purchased goods on credit Businesses converted to making consumer goods, work force shifted back to men | After WWII reasons for rapid growth of American economy |
| investment in education Baby Boom Interstate highway | Changing patterns in U.S. society after WWII |
| Women took jobs in defense plants Great Depression came to an end Americans conserved and rationed | WWII changed American society |
| Who was known for passive resistance during the Civil Rights Movement | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Separate but equal, Supreme Court decision | Brown v Board of Education |
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