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WorksheetsEra Characteristics
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
rebuilding the nation following the Civil War; Congressional Reconstruction; rise of the KKK; poll taxes and literacy tests; sharecropping
a)
Industrialization
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Progressive
d)
Imperialism
2.
transcontinental railroad; gold rush; end of the “frontier”; discovery of natural resources (oil, iron, timber, gold); assimilation of Native Americans, Dawes Act, Homestead Act, Morrill-Land Grant Act, Populism
a)
Westward Expansion
b)
WWI
c)
Industrialization
d)
Great Depression
3.
rise of big business, monopolies, mass production; goal: to become the leading economic power in the world; industry is concentrated in the major cities of the Northeast; urbanization; laissez-faire economics; trusts; corporations (horizontal/vertical integration)
a)
Roaring 20s
b)
Cold War
c)
Industrialization
d)
Progressive
4.
result of the success of Industrialization; most immigrants came for opportunity; political bosses cheated them; worked for less money; Europeans arrived at Ellis Island (New York); Japanese arrived at Angel Island (San Francisco); assimilation
a)
Progressive
b)
WWII
c)
Immigration
d)
Great Depression
5.
result of the problems caused by Industrialization: poor/unsafe working conditions; homelessness; overcrowding in the cities; tenements (Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives); child labor; unsafe consumer products (medicines/ food; Upton Sinclair and The Jungle). Goal was to make nation a better place to live and to make government more responsive to the people (muckrakers made the problems visible through pictures, stories, protests) anti-trust laws; Pure Food and Drug Act
a)
Roaring 20s
b)
Progressive
c)
Cold War
d)
Immigration
6.
goal: to become a world power; happened in 1898 with the Spanish-American War; needed refueling stations for ships; needed more economic markets; acquired Guam, Philippines, Hawaii, Samoa, Puerto Rico; Panama Canal
a)
Imperialism
b)
Great Depression
c)
Cold War
d)
WWII
7.
MAIN (causes of war): Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism; spark- assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; US entered in 1917 due to unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans (sinking of Lusitania, violation of the Sussex Pledge) and the Zimmermann Note (Germany attempting to persuade Mexico to fight); war ends with Treaty of Versailles (est. of League of Nations, Germany has to pay reparations, Germany has to sign “war-guilt clause”; Home Front: Great Migration (African Americans, liberty bonds; rationing, women in the work force; consumer production to war production
a)
WWI
b)
WWII
c)
WWIII
d)
Cold War
8.
time of isolationism; mass production of consumer goods (vacuum, refrigerator, Model T, washing machine, radio); assembly line; heavy spending; fashion and fads; speakeasies; Prohibition, organized crime; Scopes Trial; traditionalists vs. modernists; rural vs. urban; Harlem Renaissance; Jazz Age; immigration quotas; Red Scare; Palmer Raids; Sacco and Vanzetti; Teapot Dome Scandal
a)
Westward Expansion
b)
Roaring 20s
c)
Imperialism
d)
Great Depression
9.
Stock market crash; high unemployment; Hoovervilles; Dust Bowl; Great Flood of 1936; desertification; New Deal (relief, recovery, reform)
a)
WWII
b)
Great Depression
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Cold War
10.
ended the Great Depression; rise of dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Tojo); Lend-Lease Act; attack on Pearl Harbor; Home Front (victory gardens, rationing, war bonds, women in workforce and military, minorities in military, “Rosie the Riveter); Executive Order 9066 (internment of Japanese Americans), Manhattan Project (atomic bombs-- dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japanese surrender)
a)
Reconstruction
b)
WWII
c)
WWI
d)
COld War
11.
arms race and space race between Soviets and US; Sputnik; Korean War (policy of containment); Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Nikita Kruschev; John F. Kennedy; Fidel Castro; U-2 Incident, Vietnam (domino theory); passage of the 26th amendment; anti-war movement (hawks vs. doves)
a)
Cold War
b)
Dry War
c)
Hot War
d)
Sad War
12.
Brown vs. Board of Education; Rosa Parks (bus boycott); Martin Luther King (peaceful resistance); Malcolm X (violent protest); Cesar Chavez (United Farm Workers) freedom rides, Freedom Summer, Voting Rights Act of 1965; desegregation of the armed forces; success of the African American Civl Rights Mvmt. paved the way for other minority groups: Cesar Chavez (United Farm Workers), Dolores Huerta, women (Equal Rights Amendment), gay and lesbian, American Indians (AIM)
a)
Civil Rights
b)
Reconstruction
c)
WWII
d)
Imperialism
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