social study's final exam

Question 2

What is the Underground Railroad?

Answer 2

a network of safe houses to the north

Question 3

What type of economy did the North have?

Answer 3

factorys

Question 4

What type of economy did the South have?

Answer 4

slaves and farms

Question 5

Which act allowed California to join the country and also led to the Fugitive Slave Law?

Answer 5

compromise of 1850

Question 6

Which act allowed Missouri to join the country and divided western territory into slave and free lands?

Answer 6

Missouri compromise

Question 7

Which act allowed the territory to vote on whether to join as a free or slave state?

Answer 7

kansas-nebraska act

Question 8

Who was the president of the Union?

Answer 8

abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Answer 9

jefferson davis

Question 10

What was the capital city of the Union?

Answer 10

Washington DC

Question 11

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

Answer 11

Richmond

Question 12

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Answer 12

Battle of fort Sumter

Question 13

What is considered the last battle of the Civil War?

Answer 13

the battle of the Appomattox fort house

Question 14

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 14

a speech by Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

What is the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 15

about the war by Abraham Lincoln

Question 16

When did the Civil War end?

Answer 16

april 1865

Question 17

What is the 13th Amendment?

Answer 17

Abolished slavery

Question 18

What is the 14th Amendment?

Answer 18

giving citizenship to african americans

Question 19

What is the 15th Amendment?

Answer 19

allowing colored men to vote

Question 20

What are Jim Crow laws?

Answer 20

laws enforcing racial segregation

Question 21

What were poll taxes, the grandfather clause, and literacy tests?

Answer 21

They were from the Jim Crow laws

Question 22

Why were poll taxes, the grandfather clause, and literacy tests used?

Answer 22

To limit colored voting

Question 23

List 4 effects that happened because of the transcontinental railroad.

Answer 23

• transformation
• communication
• expansion
• commerce

Question 24

What was the Homestead Act and what was its effect?

Answer 24

if anybody lived in the country or somewhere that has not been inhabited yet they will get paid after living there for five years

Question 25

What are long drives and why were they necessary?

Answer 25

it was the process of moving cattle and other trading goods very far

Question 26

What was the last major battle that the Native Americans won against the US military?

Answer 26

The battle of Little Bighorn

Question 27

What industries are associated with these men: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan?

Answer 27

* Vanderbilt - railroad * Carnegie - steel * Rockefeller - oil * Morgan - railroad

Question 28

Describe the working and living conditions of the industrial era.

Answer 28

Harsh and dangerous

Question 29

How did the US acquire Alaska?

Answer 29

they bought it from Russia for 7.2 million

Question 30

What is yellow journalism?

Answer 30

False advertising or giving something a big headline to make it more intriguing even if it’s not true

Question 31

Explain the significance of the phrase 'Remember the Maine!'

Answer 31

it was about the beginning of the Spanish American war

Question 32

Did the Philippines succeed in becoming independent from Spain?

Answer 32

yes but USA owned it

Question 33

Did Puerto Rico succeed in becoming independent from Spain?

Answer 33

yes but they are now USA property

Question 34

Did Cuba succeed in becoming independent from Spain?

Answer 34

yes

Question 35

Why was the Panama Canal built?

Answer 35

to skip the long travel around the eastern peninsula

Question 36

What were the MAIN causes of World War I?

Answer 36

* mechanism of alliances * imperialism * nationalism

Question 37

Which countries made up the Allied powers?

Answer 37

* The United States * Britain * France * Soviet Union * China

Question 38

Which countries made up the Central Powers?

Answer 38

* Germany * Austria-Hungary * Ottoman Empire * Bulgaria

Question 39

What was Wilson’s plan for peace called?

Answer 39

The 14 points

Question 40

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 40

It’s an international organization to try to maintain peace

Question 41

How was the Treaty of Versailles harsh on Germany?

Answer 41

They force them to surrender their army and navy

Question 42

During which president’s administration was the Teapot Dome scandal?

Answer 42

Warren G Harding

Question 43

Who are Sacco and Vanzetti and how were they a part of the Red Scare?

Answer 43

Communist and immigrants

Question 44

What is Prohibition?

Answer 44

Not allowing alcohol to be sold drink, or owned by anybody

Question 45

Who are flappers?

Answer 45

girls mostly in their 20 who wear short dresses lots of makeup and short hair

Question 46

What did the Scopes trial debate?

Question 47

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 47

it featured African-American music mostly jazz and is like the birthplace of jazz

Question 48

What month and year did the stock market crash?

Answer 48

October 29, 1929

Question 49

What was the Bonus Army?

Answer 49

Veterans from World War I

Question 50

What was FDR’s plan to help people during the Great Depression?

Answer 50

The new deal

Question 51

What caused the Dust Bowl?

Answer 51

* drought * farming

Question 52

Who were the Allied countries in World War II?

Answer 52

* France * Britain * United States

Question 53

Who were the Axis Powers?

Answer 53

* Germany * Italy * Japan

Question 54

Which invasion was the (official) start of WWII?

Answer 54

The invasion of Poland

Question 55

What’s the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 55

December 7, 1941

Question 56

What was the 3-part strategy for victory in Europe?

Question 57

What was the strategy for victory in the Pacific?

Answer 57

Island hopping

Question 58

Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan?

Answer 58

because of Japan’s refusal to end the war quickly

Question 59

What is the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 59

stop the spread of communism

Question 60

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

Answer 60

economic assistance for Europe so that they will resist communism

Question 61

What is the iron curtain?

Answer 61

imaginary line to divide communist countries and non-communist countries

Question 62

What happened to Berlin that the US and its allies airlifted supplies?

Answer 62

There was a wall and it blocked people from getting food and necessities

Question 63

What’s the United Nations?

Answer 63

Its purpose is to maintain peace

Question 64

What’s NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 64

* NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (alliance of democratic countries) * Warsaw Pact (alliance of Eastern European countries)

Question 65

Why did the US fight the Korean War?

Answer 65

To prevent the takeover of South Korea by North Korea

Question 66

Who was the leading general during the Korean War?

Answer 66

Dwight David Eisenhower

Question 67

How did the Korean War end?

Answer 67

an armistice agreement

Question 68

What was McCarthyism?

Answer 68

to spread false information about someone