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#Social Studies 6
#Social Studies Grade 6 Module 2 A Changing America TEST REVIEW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a fast economic or population growth? | boom |
| What is a workers' group that fights for better working conditions? | labor union |
| What was a time of rebuilding for the nation after the Civil War? | Reconstruction |
| What is an area set aside for only Native Americans? | reservation |
| What is a crowded, poorly built apartment building? | tenement |
| What were the workers who farmed land owned by other people called? | sharecroppers |
| Which industry hired thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants to work in the West? | the railroad industry |
| What does the term reservation mean? | an area of land set aside for Native Americans |
| What was a place that provided food, health care, and classes for immigrants? | settlement houses |
| What is a reformer? | someone who tries to change things |
| Who founded Hull House Settlement House in 1889? | Jane Addams |
| Who opened Henry Street Settlement in New York Settlement? | Lillian Wald |
| What was the Great Immigration? | when many African Americans moved from the South to Northern and Midwestern cities |
| What was the law that kept out all Chinese from coming to America for 10 years? | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau? | gave food and supplies to formerly enslaved people |
| What is a skyscraper? | a very tall building that could be so tall because they used iron in the construction |
| What is petroleum? | oil |
| What is the name of the iron ore range that was discovered in 1887 west of Lake Superior? | Mesabi Range |
| Who was famous for building refineries near Cleveland that produced oil? | |
| What was Thomas Alva Edison famous inventing? | the light bulb |
| Who went to England and brought back to America a new way of making steel? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who built the first central power station and a type of light bulb? | Lewis Lattimer |
| What is it called when labors withhold their labor to get more money and better working conditions? | a strike |
| What is the name of the island in New York Harbor that was used to process immigrants from Europe trying to enter American? | Ellis Island |
| What is the name of the island in San Francisco Bay that was used to process immigrants from Asia? | Angel Island |
| What were the Black Codes? | laws passed by Southern Legislatures after the Civil War to treat blacks badly |
| Which Amendment assured voting rights for African American men Amendment to the Constitution was passed to protect equal citizenship rights? | Fourteenth Amendment |
| Which Amendment to the Constitution stopped slavery? | Thirteenth Amendment |
| What was the Johnson Reconstruction Plan (sometimes called the Lincoln Plan}? | a plan not to not treat the Southern States too harshly as they rejoin the Union |
| What was the Congressional Plan to allow the South to rejoin the Union? | a harsh plan that wanted to punish the South severely as they rejoined the Union |
| Who was Hiram R. Revels and Blanche K. Bruce? | the first American Americans to be voted into the Senate |
| Who were freedmen? | people who had been previously slaves |
| What happened to state taxes to Southern States as they had to rebuild their economy after the war? | taxes were increased |
| What was a way of voting that did not allow anyone to know how a person voted? | secret ballad |
| What is segregation? | the practice of keeping people of different races separated |
| When did President Hayes pull all soldiers out of Soutern States? | 1877 |
| What did Booker T. Washington think would provide more opportunities for African Americans? | education |
| What is a person who searches for gold, silver, or other mineral resources? | prospector |
| What is a time of fast economic decline? | a bust |
| What did Congress do to opened the Great Plains to settlement in 1862? | passed the Homestead Act which gave free land to settlers |
| What does the Spanish word "vaqueros" mean? | cowboys |
| What did Samuel Gompers do? | started a labor union |
| Who was General George Armstrong Custer? | American general who along with his troops were mascaraed by the Sioux and their allies at Little Bighorn |
| Who was Chief Joseph? | a Nez Perce chief who led his tribe on a long journey rather than be forced by the Army onto a reservation |
| Who was Sitting Bull? | Sioux chief who led the attack that massacred General Custer and his troops |
| Who was Crazy Horse? | fought beside Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| What did the Fifteenth Amendment do? | prohibits federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous conditions of servitude |
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