Quarter 2 Social
Studies Exam Study Guide
Chapter 13
Lessons 1-3
Notes:
* Please remember to study the
dates for all major events!
*Your Q2 Social Studies exam will
focus on Chapter 13 Lessons 1-3. You are responsible for all material in the
textbook, in your notebook, and discussed or distributed during class. If you
have any questions or need extra help, please come and ask me well before the
exam date.
*Your exam will be worth 15% of
the final exam mark. The other 15% will come from the New Deal and FDR Poster
Project.
Chapter 13 Good
Times and Hardships
Lesson 1 World War I
Big Idea:
Know the causes and effects of World War I
*Explain
the four main causes of the war
*Explain
the events that caused the United States to enter the war
*Describe
the ways that the war affected the lives of people on the home front (left in
America), especially women and African Americans.
*Describe
how the Treaty of Versailles ended the war, created the League of Nations, and
made Germany pay heavy fines.
Vocabulary: alliance, Allied Powers, Central
Powers, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, isolationism
Lesson 2 The Roaring Twenties
Big
Idea: I will know that the 1920’s was a time of progress and positive change
for many, but was also a time of hardships for others, including immigrants.
*Understand
that new technology increased production and consumption of goods.
*Describe
how radio and movies helped to create a national popular culture.
*Explain
the causes and effects of The Harlem Renaissance for African Americans.
*Understand
that over a million African Americans north in the Great Migration.
*Understand
the causes and effects of Prohibition.
*Be
able to explain what the Great Migration was. Specifically what caused it and
what its effects were.
Prezi:
Vocabulary and Concepts: Harlem renaissance, flappers,
jazz age, Charles Lindbergh, Louis Armstrong, F.Scott Fitzgerald, prohibition,
The Temperance Movement, The Great Migration, segregation, KKK, immigrants, the
Sixteenth Amendment, the Seventeenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment
Lesson
3 The Great Depression
Big Idea: I will know the different ways in which
Americans responded to the hardships of The Great Depression.
Vocabulary
& Concepts: You
should be able to define and discuss these words/people/events: Great
Depression, Unemployment, Stock market, Credit, Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Homeless,
Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Drought, Great Plains, Hoovervilles
*Be able to explain the cause and effects of the
Great Depression
*Be able to explain the cause and effects of the
Dust Bowl
*Describe people’s feelings during this time
*Describe people’s feelings towards Herbert Hoover
Lesson
4 The New Deal
Big Idea: I will know that the purpose of the New Deal
was to improve people’s lives during the Great Depression.
*Be able to name and describe the New Deal programs
and their purpose
Vocabulary:
New
Deal, First Hundred Days, Social Security
