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9th Grade American History Final Exam Review
Directions: Answer all questions and complete all tasks on separate paper.
World War I
Define:
Nationalism
Imperialism
Liberty Bonds
League of Nations
Unrestricted Submarine
Militarism
Trench Warfare
14 Points
Zimmermann Note
Warfare
Great Migration
Selective Service Act
Treaty of Versailles
Espionage Act
Schenck v. United States
Propaganda
Mobilization
Sedition Act
Mobilization
1. What were the four main causes of World War I?
2. Name the Central and Allied Powers during World War I.
3. Why did the United States want to remain isolated and out of World War I?
4. What is unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
5. What were the three main reasons why the United States declared war on Germany?
6. What happened to the Lusitania?
7. What did the Zimmermann note ask Mexico to do?
8. How did the United States get all of the men it needed to fight World War I?
9. Describe 3 new technologies that were developed during World War I?
10. Describe Trench Warfare.
11. How did these new battlefield technologies affect the war that World War I was fought?
12. What factors pushed African Americans away from the southern part of the United
States?
13. What factors pulled African Americans towards the northern part of the United States?
14. What was the Schenck v. United States case all about?
15. Who eventually won World War I?
16. Describe President Wilson’s 14 Points?
17. How did the other leaders of the Allied Powers respond to Wilson’s 14 Points?
18. How was the League of Nations supposed to maintain peace after World War I?
19. What happened to the Treaty of Versailles in the United States Senate?
20. How did American women try to end American involvement in World War I?
The Roaring 20’s
Define:
Sacco & Vanzetti
Demobilization
Consumer Culture
Palmer Raids
Harlem Renaissance
Traditionalists
Modernists
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
League of Women Voters
Recession
Quota System
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Communism
American Civil Liberties
Radicals
Prohibition
Scopes Trial
Evolution
Union (ACLU)
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How was immigration to the United States limited and controlled during the 1920’s?
What were Sacco & Vanzetti put on trial for? What happened to them?
What groups of people in the United States were the Nativists against?
What were the Palmer Raids?
Who was Marcus Garvey, and what did he say African America ns should do to fight
racism in the United States?
6. Why was the economy of the United States “Booming” during the 1920’s?
7. What is the main characteristic of the Free Enterprise System (Capitalism)?
What is Consumer Culture?
8. What three things led to the growth of Consumer Culture during the 1920’s?
9. How did these new inventions change life in the United States?
a. Radio
b. Plastic
c. Airplane
d. Automobile
10. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
11. Name two famous Jazz musicians.
12. Describe the divide and conflict that existed between the Modernists and the
Traditionalists.
13. Describe the divide and conflict that existed between Rural Farmers and Urban Workers.
14. Why did Dries want to ban alcohol in the United States?
15. What was the Scopes Trial all about?
The Great Depression
Define:
Stock Speculation
First Hundred Days
Liberals
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Bank Runs
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Conservatives
Bonus Army
New Deal
AAA
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowl
CCC
Name 4 causes of the Great Depression.
What happened on Black Tuesday?
What is inflation?
What are back runs, and how do they happen?
How did economic problems in the United States spread worldwide?
What did Conservatives say should be done to fix the economic problems during the
Depression?
7. What did Liberals say should be done to fix the economic problems during the Depression?
8. What did the Bonus Army want when they marched on Washington D.C.?
9. What were Hoovervilles?
10. What did President Roosevelt call his plan to deal with the Great Depression?
11. What was the period of time called when many laws and programs to deal with the Great
Depression were pushed through Congress very quickly?
12. What effect did the Dust Bowl have on the people in the states that were effected?
13. How did the government deal with the Great Flood of 1936?
14. What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) do?
15. What did New Deal groups like the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Progress
Administration do?
16. What was the Social Security Act designed to do?
17. Describe the effects of the President Roosevelt’s New Deal?
World War II
Define:
Munich Pact
Rationing
Island Hopping
Appeasement
Korematsu v. United States
Manhattan Project
Lend-Lease Act
General MacArthur
General Eisenhower
Blitzkrieg
Holocaust
Genocide
1. What did the Munich Pact do?
2. What event started World War II, and caused France and England to declare war on
Germany?
3. When did this event take place?
4. How did the United States help the Allied Powers while still remaining neutral?
5. Name the Allied and Axis Powers.
6. What event caused the United States to end isolation and enter World War II?
7. When did this event happen?
8. How did the government get all of the war materials necessary for the war effort? (2
parts)
9. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
10. When was the United States involved in World War II?
11. What court case said it was legal for the government to create internment camps for
Japanese-Americans?
12. What was Blitzkrieg, and who used this tactic?
13. What happened on June 6, 1944?
14. How many Jews did the Nazis murder during the Holocaust?
15. What is Island Hopping?
16. What act forced Japan to surrender in 1945?
17. Name two men involved in the Manhattan Project
Civil Rights
Define:
Civil Disobedience
Nonviolent Resistance
Civil Rights Act 1964
Jackie Robinson
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights Act 1965
“I Have a Dream”
Sit Ins
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1. What was the decision in the Board of Education Topeka case?
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How did Martin Luther King, Jr. say that African Americans should fight for Civil Rights?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
How do Sit Ins and Boycotts work?
How did Rosa parks spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and how long did it ask?
What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?
In order to desegregate public schools in the south, what did President Eisenhower have
to do at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
8. What city did martin Luther King, Jr. call the most segregated in the country?
9. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. give the “I Have a Dream Speech”?
10. What was the “Dream” that King spoke about in this speech?
11. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
12. Who broke the color line in professional sports?