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3rd Nine Week Study Guide
1. Which first lady was the President’s “Eyes, ears and legs”?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
2. What finally ended the depression?
WORLD WAR II
3. What was the goal of the Tennessee Valley Authority project?
TO PROVIDE CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER
4. His music was between modern music and American folk styles.
AARON COPLAND
5. Who were two composers of American music during the 1920s and
1930s?
AARON COPLAND AND GEORGE GERSHWIN
6. What amendment prohibited alcohol?
18TH
7. What did Americans learn from prohibition?
THE GOV’T HAS DIFFICULTY ENFORCING UNPOPULAR LAWS
8. Which development of the 1920s reduced regional and cultural differences
in America?
RADIO NETWORKS
9. Which development contributed most strongly with powering labor-saving
devices at home?
ELECTRIFICATION
10. What amendment was FOR women suffrage?
19TH
11. What resulted from the Spanish American War?
THE U.S. BECAME A WORLD POWER and Cuba gained independence from Spain
12. What was the outcome of sensational exaggerated stories during the
Spanish American War?
THE STORIES INCREASED AMERICAN attitude against SPAIN IN ITS STRUGGLE
WITH CUBA
13. Child labor had a ___NEGATIVE___________ effect on industrialization.
14. Improved Safety conditions, reduced work hours, and restrictions on child
labor were all effects of ____PROGRESSIVE REFORMS_______.
15. The Triangle Fire of 1911, in New York City led to what types of reforms?
DEMANDS FOR SAFER INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
16. After reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by JIM
CROW LAWS___________.
17. Janie Porter Barrett modeled her settlement house on the one founded by
who?
JANE ADDAMS
18. What two groups of immigrants came to America late in the 19th century
to help build railroads?
CHINESE AND IRISH
19. What did the 18th amendment do?
PROHIBIT ALCOHOL
20. What did the 13th amendment do?
FREED THE SLAVES
21. What did the 14th amendment do?
MADE FREED SLAVES CITIZENS
22. What did the 15th amendment do?
GAVE AFRICAN AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO VOTE
23. What did the 20th amendment do?
PROVIDED THE TIME BETWEEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION UNTIL THE
TIME OF THE INAUGURATION
24. Booker T. Washington thought that ____LEARNING SKILLS AND
TRADES_____would help African Americans gain equality.
25. What two states are non-contiguous?
ALASKA AND HAWAII
26. What are the different regions in the United States?
NON-CONTIGUOUS, SOUTHWEST, NORTHEAST, PACIFIC, MIDWEST, ROCKY
MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEAST
27. What state is Santa Fe located, and what region?
SOUTHWEST (NEW MEXICO)
28. Pittsburgh is in what region?
NORTHEAST (PENNSYLVANIA)
29. Railroad cars resulted in more __NATIONAL_____ markets.
30. What mode of transportation had the greatest impact on Westward
Expansion?
RAILROAD
31. When President Roosevelt said “The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself…” he was telling the American people what???
THE COUNTRY COULD SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION
32. Which would be an appropriate headline during WWII?
a. Banks fail. B. Lusitania sinks. C. Women vote. Or D. Normandy
invaded
33. Why was the Battle of Midway an important battle during WWII?
THE U.S. DEFEATED THE JAPANESE NAVY Turning pt. in war in Pacific
34. What were the three big axis powers during WWII?
JAPAN, ITALY, GERMANY
35. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Soviet Union all were ruled by
what?
DICTATORS
36. Why did Germany declare war on the United States?
U.S DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN
37. During the 1930s, American foreign policy emphasized neutrality, but this
position changed when the United States began to ____GIVING
ECONOMIC AID TO THE ALLIES______. LEND LEASE ACT
38. Social Security Administration, Federal work programs, the Environmental
Improvement programs and Farm Assistance programs all came around
because of the __NEW DEAL_____.
39. The Grapes of Wrath was about__THE DUST BOWL___SteInbeck___.
40. Louis Armstrong, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin and Bessie Smith were
all what profession?
MUSICIANS
41. Why did African Americans move North between 1910 and 1930?
THERE WERE MORE JOBS (industrial North); escape discrimination
42. Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces on the
Western Front during WWI?
GENERAL PERSHING
43. Guglielmo Marconi and David Sarnoff both worked in what field?
COMMUNICATIONS
44. Who created automobiles on a moving assembly line?
HENRY FORD
45. How did the United States increase the number of men in the military?
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT AND DRAFTED MEN
46. Posters trying to convince the viewer of some message during WWI and
WWII are known as ____PROPAGANDA______.
47. During WWI, American soldieries received a new nickname. What was the
new nickname?
DOUGHBOYS
48. WWI was brutal. This war was mostly fought in ____TRENCHES_____.
49. One reason the US became involved in WWI was because of it’s close ties
to which countries?______ENGLAND AND FRANCE____________
50. What event started WWI? (What lit the powder keg?)
ASSASSINATION ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND
51. Militarism, Alliance systems, Nationalism and imperialism were all causes
of what war?
WORLD WAR I
52. Who was the leader of the Rough Riders during the Spanish American
War?
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
53. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union, America, Germany, Japan, Great
Britain and Italy during WWII?
USSR-JOSEPH STALIN, USA-FDR AND TRUMAN, GERMANY-HITLER, JAPANTOJO, ENGLAND-WINSTON CHURCHILL, ITALY-BENITO MUSSOLINI
54. Who were the allied countries during WWII?
GREAT BRITAIN, AMERICA, SOVIET UNION, AND FRANCE (UNTIL THEY
WERE CONQUERED).