Changing Times and WWI

One result of the end of Reconstruction in the South was:

• People from the North could not make their homes in the South.

• All industry in the North was moved to the South.

• Life was slower in the South than ever before.

• African Americans had trouble entering into political service.

Which of the following is the best title for the organizer?

• Important Men of the Civil War Era

• Important Inventions of the 19th Century

• Important Men of the American West

• Important Ideas that Changed Industry

What idea would best complete the main-idea-detail map above?

• Chinese immigrants were not paid a fair wage.

• The population of the West increased.

• The railroads met in Utah.

• Historians believe railroads are the most important invention.

What idea would best complete the main-idea-detail map above?

• Rights Guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

• The National Women's Party Guarantees

• Rights Denied to Women in 1900

• Rights the President of the United States Did Not Support

What was the most likely reason the U.S. became a world industrial leader?

• Natural resources were plentiful and corporations were large and powerful.

• Industry was necessary to keep the U.S. producing natural resources.

• Gold and coal were less difficult to mine than other natural resources.

• Other countries didn't produce any goods.

What is the most likely reason railroads are considered one of the most important inventions ever?

• Railroads opened up an entire region to be settled and made shipping goods across the country possible.

• Railroads were built by Irish and Chinese immigrants, and the work was perfectly completed.

• Railroads did not connect all cities in the United States.

• The building of the railroads was the first time immigrants were paid to work in the United States.

What most likely was a result of increasing population of cities?

• Many people had to be asked to move to rural areas.

• Buildings had to be built upwards instead of outwards to save space.

• Immigrants were not allowed to move into larger cities.

• There was not an easy way to build transportation systems to move the people from place to place.

What is the most likely reason women felt they deserved the right to vote?

• The 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution guaranteed citizenship and the right to vote to all American citizens.

• They didn't want to be homemakers any longer.

• Women wanted to have high-paying jobs such as doctors and lawyers, and they would have to vote to be able to have those positions.

• They did not want to work at professional jobs, but they wanted to be able to march when they wanted to.

Which of the following best completes the organizer above?

• The government worried too much.

• People didn’t want to buy any more stock.

• There were great dust storms on Tuesday, October 29, 1929.

• The stock market crashed.

Which countries were members of the Central Powers?

• Russia and China

•  Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

•  Spain and Portugal

• England, France, Italy