Quarter 1 Social Studies Exam Study Guide

Quarter 1 Social Studies Exam Study Guide

Chapter 11 Industry and Immigration

Lesson 1 Inventors and Inventions

*Communicate that Americans developed new inventions that changed life in the United States and around the world.

*Analyze and explain what the sentence “Inventions shrink distances” means with examples to support your answer.

*Be familiar with Edison, Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Morse inventions and the effect they had on life and people.

Vocabulary: consumer, telegraph, investor, profit

Lesson 2 The Impact of Big Business

* Communicate how the growth of big business had a great impact on life in America.

* Recognize the cause and effect of how new inventions lead to urbanization

*  Compare and contrast the costs and benefits of cities with important industries.

Vocabulary: urbanization, entrepreneur, corporation, stock, assembly line, refinery, monopoly

Lesson 3 Immigration

  *Communicate that some of the costs and benefits of being an immigrant.
  *Conclude why some of the new immigrants might not try to fit in in America.

 *Discuss how America’s growth may have benefited people from other countries.

*Analyze why immigrants left their home countries and what they might have been hoping to find in America

  *Discuss why people may have wanted immigration to decrease

Vocabulary: diversity, prejudice, oppression, tenement, labor union, melting pot

Chapter 12 Struggle for Reform

Lesson 1 The Progressive Era

*Understand that changes in the American economy led to problems that Progressives tried to solve.

·         Describe living and working conditions that led to the Labor Movement

·         Summarize the goals of the Labor Movement and what caused it to start in the first place

·         Define the Progressive Movement and list some of its goals and leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt

·         Describe efforts made by the Progressive Era leaders in the areas of prison reform, mental health, conservation, and the development of the National Park System

Vocabulary: trust, strike, strikebreaker, boycott, Progressive, muckrakers,     conservation

Lesson 2 Unequal Opportunities for African Americans

*Understand that it was necessary to change the unfair treatment of African Americans.

·         Recognize the effects of Jim Crow laws in the South and the spread of segregation to other parts of the country

·         Identify ways segregation limited opportunities for African Americans

·         Summarize the reasons behind the Great Migration and the experiences of African Americans who moved North.

·         Identify leaders of the movement for better opportunities for African Americans, including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ida Wells-Barnett.

Vocabulary: civil rights, Great Migration

Lesson 3 The Fight for Women’s Rights

*Understand that many people worked to gain equal rights, including voting rights, for women.

·         Describe the role of women in the U.S. during this period

·         Summarize key events in the women’s rights movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

·         Identify leaders of the women’s movement, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Jeannette Rankin

·         Recognize the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment

Vocabulary: temperance, suffrage, suffragist