Social Studies Final Exam is Monday, June 13
Modules 1 and 2: The Nation Breaks Apart through America as a World Power (1861-1920) (Chapters 16-22 in the textbook)
Everything you need to know for the Final Exam is contained in your Social Studies notebook. You can use your text if you are missing notes or you are confused about anything.
Concepts to Know:
1. The causes and results of the Civil War, and the many problems that the Nation faced rebuilding the South.
2. As the settlers moved west, the western landscape was transformed.
3. Conflict between the Native Americans and the U.S. Government occurred over western land.
4. New communities and political groups were created by the settlers on the Great Plains.
5. The Second Industrial Revolution led to new sources of power and advances in transportation and communication.
6. Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and strikes by workers.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
Manifest Destiny, Sectionalism, Compromise 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Appomattox Courthouse, Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Black Codes, Hiram Revels, Ku Klux Klan, segregation, sharecropping, Father Isaac Hecker, Comstock Lode, boomtown, Pony Express, Transcontinental Railroad, Reservations, Long Walk, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Homestead Act 1862, National Grange, Interstate Commerce Act, Bessemer Process, Thomas Alva Edison, patent, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, monopoly, Sherman Antitrust Act, strike, American Federation of Labor, collective bargaining, Old Immigration, New Immigration, tenements, Hull House, Nativists, Chinese Exclusion Act, Jacob Riis, Gilded Age, Progressives, Muckrakers, Ida B. Tarbell, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments, socialism, temperance, Pure Food and Drug Act, Mother Frances Cabrini, Pope Leo XIII
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Modules 3 and 4: World War 1 through Post-War America (1914-1945) (Chapters 23-26 in the textbook
Everything you need to know for the Final Exam is contained in your Social Studies notebook. You can use your text if you are missing notes or you are confused about anything.
Concepts to Know:
1. In the last half of the 1800s, the United States joined the race for control of new territories.
2. As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States expanded into new parts of the world and increased its role in Latin America.
3. The impact made on America by World War I.
4. American industries boomed in the 1920s changing many Americans’ way of life.
5. The changes that occurred because of the economic disaster of the Great Depression.
6. The rise of aggressive totalitarian governments that led to the start of World War II.
7. American involvement in World War II helped the US economy and changed the lives of many Americans.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
isolationism, yellow journalism, nationalism, militarism, mobilize, U boats, imperialism, President Wilson’s 14 Points, Father Francis Duffy, Kellogg-Briand Pact, moving assembly line, Red Scare, Prohibition, Charles Darwin, Great Migration, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Social Security Act, Dorothy Day, 20th Amendment, totalitarian, D-day, pacifist, island hopping, total war, Holocaust, Manhattan Project, Harry S. Truman, Harlem Renaissance, Maximilian Kolbe
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Information to review for the Essay Questions:
1. Civil War- Causes? Who was fighting? Who was President at the time?
Important leaders and battles.
Treaties?
What was the impact on the United States?
2. World War I - Causes? Who was fighting? Who was President at the time?
Important leaders and battles.
Treaties?
What was the impact on the United States?
3. World War II- Causes? Who was fighting? Who was President at the time?
Important leaders and battles.
Treaties?
What was the impact on the United States?
4. Great Depression-Causes?
New Deal
President at the time?
Programs?
Results?
