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Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Element of SS concerned with the production, consumption and distribution of goods, services, and the flow of money. | Economics |
| Element of SS that is concerned with the study of and the conducting of policies and actions of a 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 the rights and duties of citizens. | Civics |
| SS term that is concerned with the study of land area, 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/businesses (MYOB) | Isolationism |
| During the early 1800's, the US placed few restrictions on immigration because the industrial economy was creating new jobs. What was the name of the immigration station where most European immigrants entered the US? | Ellis Island |
| What is the aggressive strengthening of armed forces? | Militarism |
| A factory fire that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings was called what? | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| The Transcontinental RR was completed in 1869 when the Central Pacific RR and the Union Pacific RR met in what location (this is where they put in the gold spike)? | Promontory, Utah |
| Seward's folly refers to what? | Seward's purchase of Alaska |
| The destruction of what ship directly led to the start of the Spanish-American War? | USS Maine |
| What does the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) do? | Brings attention to racial inequality |
| A term that became to describe journalists who "raked up" and exposed corruption and problems of society was called what? | Muckraker |
| What muckraker wrote a book called The Jungle about the conditions in a meat packing plant? | Upton Sinclair |
| What are the four MAIN causes of WWI? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism |
| Whose assassination sparked WWI? | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| In the Zimmerman Note, Germany invited what country into an alliance? | Mexico |
| At the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson proposed the League of Nations (Now the United Nations) what was their purpose? | To find peaceful solutions to disagreements |
| What was the purpose of the 19th Amendment? | It allowed women to vote |
| Henry Ford is famous for his _____________ ______ which greatly reduced the cost of automobiles. | Assembly Line |
| The 1st national labor union was called what? | The Knights of Labor |
| One infamous boss that ran political machines, which were powerful organizations that used legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to office, went by what name? | Boss Tweed |
| What did the 17th Amendment do? | It allowed Americans vote for US senators |
| Jacob Riis wrote about life in the________________ in his book How the Other Half Lives. | Tenements |
| If you're injured on the job, you are guaranteed lost wages in the ____________ ___________________ laws. | Workers Compensation |
| What did the 18th amendment ban? | The production or sales of alcohol |
| Theodore Roosevelt believed that the interests of business people, laborers, and consumers should be balanced/equal for the public good. He called his policy what? | The Square Deal |
| On August 15, 1914, the ______________ ____________ was complete which linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was called "the highway between the oceans." | Panama Canal |
| A type of warfare where you defend your position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches. | Trench Warfare |
| Why did US eventually enter WWI on April 6, 1917? | The Germans continued to sink our ships and then wrote the Zimmermann Note encouraging Mexico to join them in return for land they had lost in the war with US |
| In 1917, this required men between the ages 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. | Selective Service Act |
| The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers that was signed on June 28, 1919 in Versailles, excactly five years years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. What was this treaty called? | Treaty of Versailles |
| What was the program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to exterminate the whole Jewish population called? | Holocaust |
| The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson established a doctrine known as what? | Separate but equal |
| In the 1920's a period of artistic acheivements by African Americans was known as what? | Harlem Renaissance |
| What was the significance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact? | Outlawed war |
| What American President was associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal? | Harding |
| During the Great Depression intense depletion of the top soil in the Midwest led to what historical event? | Dust Bowl |
| What is the practice of buying on margin? | Purchasing stock on credit |
| What day of the week was described as "black" after stock market investors bought stocks on margin causing the crash of the market? | Tuesday |
| Which US president proposed the New Deal that brought the country out of the Great Depression? | FDR |
| What was the name of the severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930s called? | Great Depression |
| The Nazi Party was a fascist political system. What is fascism? | A system where the government is more important than the people |
| The Allied invasion at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 is historically known as what? | D-Day |
| What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project? | To develop an atomic bomb |
| The wall that divided east and west Europe into seperate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991 was called what? | the Iron Curtain |
| During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what country was asked to remove nuclear weapons from Cuba? | SU |
| A harbor in Hawaii that served as the base of the US Pacific fleet that was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, by Japan. What was this harbor called? | Pearl Harbor |
| The Cold War was a war of ideas between the US & SU over different economic and political systems. While the two countries never declared war on each other, there were two wars that both countries got involved. What were they? | Korean War and Vietnam War |
| What was the name of the scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon? | Watergate Scandal |
| A group of African American pilots who flew missions in WWII. | Tuskegee Airmen |
| A global system of computer networks through which people anywhere in the world can communicate and share information, which later was enhanced by the World Wide Web allowing us to access information from computers around the world. | Internet |
| What was the name of the terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden? | Al-Qaeda |
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