U.S. History Benchmark Vocabulary and Sample Question Correlations

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The Civil War / SS.912.A.2.1 Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. / Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Ostend Manifesto
Anaconda Plan
Freeport Doctrine
Gettysburg
States’ Rights
Vicksburg
Westward Expansion / Gettysburg Address
Kansas Nebraska Act
Emancipation Proclamation
“Bleeding Kansas”
Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
Secession
Sectionalism / Pearson p.95 Q7
Q-4 Gateway pg.20
Q-7 Gateway pg.21
Q-6 Escambia
Reconstruction / SS.912.A.2.2 Assess the influence of significant people on Reconstruction. / Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans / Scalawags
Andrew Johnson / Q-6Gateway pg.38
Q-7 Gateway pg.38
Q-9 Gateway pg.39
SS.912.A.2.3 Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. / Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Impeachment / Q-2 Gateway pg. 37
SS.912.A.2.4 Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. / 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Due Process
Civil Rights Act / Pearson p.57 Q8
Q-3 Gateway pg. 37
SS.912.A.2.5 Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups. / Jim Crow Laws
African American Migration
Segregation
Plessy v Ferguson / Pearson p.94 Q6
Q-11 Gateway p.39
Q-8 Escambia
SS.912.A.2.6 Compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze the sharecropping system and debt peonage as practiced in the United States. / Black Codes
Sharecropping
Debt peonage
Poll Tax
Literacy tests
“Grandfather clause” / Pearson p.92 Q2
Q-8 Gateway pg. 39
Final Settlement of the West / SS.912.A.3.1 Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. / Agricultural Surplus
Business Monopolies
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Farmers’ Alliance
Grange
Granger Laws / Populism
Interstate Commerce Act
Government Regulation of Food and Drugs
Munn v. Illinois
Wabash v. Illinois
William Jennings Bryan / Pearson p.192 Q5
Q-18 Gateway pg. 118
Q-19 Gateway pg. 118
Q-20 Gateway pg. 118
SS.912.A.3.6Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society. / Homestead Act / Q-1 Gateway pg. 113
SS.912.A.2.7Review the Native American experience. / Reservation System
Dawes Act
Great Plains
Wounded Knee / Pearson p.190 Q1
Q-1 Gateway pg.56
Q-4 Gateway pg. 56
Q-6 Gateway pg.56
Q-8 Gateway pg.58
The Rise of Industry / SS.912.A.3.2 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century. / Second Industrial Revolution
Market Economy
Innovation
Capitalism
Laissez Faire
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Antitrust Act / Q-1 Gateway pg. 77
Q-6 Gateway pg.78
Q-13 Gateway pg. 80
Q-2 Escambia
Q-8 Escambia
Q-12 Escambia
SS.912.A.3.3 Compare the First and Second Industrial Revolutions in the United States. / Railroads
Transportation / Q-8 Gateway p. 79 Q-11Gateway p.79
Q-12 Gateway p.79
Q-6 Escambia
SS.912.A.3.4 Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business practices affected the United States economy. / Bessemer Process
Monopoly
Trust
Laissez Faire
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
Telephone / Electric Light Bulb
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan / Pearson p.146 Q1
Q-3 Gateway pg. 78
Q-4 Gateway pg. 78
Q-5 Gateway pg. 78
SS.912.A.3.5 Identify significant inventors of the Industrial Revolution, including African Americans and women. / Thomas Edison
Edwin Drake
Henry Ford
Samuel Morse
Henry Bessemer / Alexander Graham Bell
Madam C.J. Walker
Sarah Goode
Garrett Morgan / Q-7 Gateway pg. 78
Q-9 Gateway pg. 79
Q-10Gateway pg. 79
SS.912.A.3.13Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Henry Flagler
Everglades
Florida East Coast Railroad / Q-15 Gateway pg. 80
The Labor Movement / SS.912.A.3.2Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century. / Labor Unions / Q-9 Gateway pg. 94
SS.912.A.3.9 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. / Labor Unions
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Child Labor
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike / Pullman Strike
Government Regulation
Collective Bargaining
Strike
Lockout
Black-listing / Pearson p.147 Q4
Q-2 Gateway pg. 92
Q-4 Gateway pg. 93
Q-5 Gateway pg. 94
Q-6 Gateway pg. 93
Q-8 Gateway pg. 94 Q-10Gateway pg. 94
Q-11 Gateway pg. 94
SS.912.A.3.10 Review different economic and philosophic ideologies. / Social Darwinism
Planned Economy
Market Economy
Capitalism / Socialism
Communism
Anarchism / Pearson p.148 Q5
Q-3 Gateway pg. 93
Urbanization & Immigration / SS.912.A.3.2 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century. / Urban Centers
Immigration
Urbanization
Tenement / Q-2Gateway pg. 114
Q-11 Gateway pg. 116
SS.912.A.3.7Compare the experience of European immigrants in the east to that of Asian immigrants in the west (the Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan). / Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
“New” v. “old” immigrants
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Americanization
Nativism / Q-6Gateway pg. 115
Q-9Gateway pg. 115
Q-10 Gateway pg. 115
Q-13Gateway pg. 116
Q-15Gateway pg. 117
SS.912.A.3.11Analyze the impact of political machines in United States cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. / Urban Centers
Political Machines
Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed / Pearson p.191 Q4
Q-3 Gateway pg. 114
Q-4 Gateway pg. 114
The Progressive Era / SS.912.A.3.2 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century. / Progressives / Q-11 Escambia
SS.912.A.3.8Examine the importance of social change and reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (class system, migration from farms to cities, Social Gospel Movement, role of settlement houses and churches in providing services to the poor). / Social Gospel Movement
Settlement Houses
Jane Addams
Hull House / Pearson p.262-263 Q1-4
Q-1Gateway pg. 137
Q-2 Gateway pg. 137
Q-12Gateway pg. 140
Q-3 Escambia
SS.912.A.3.12 Compare how different nongovernmental organizations and progressives worked to shape public policy, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life. / Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
National Woman Suffrage Association
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Temperance Movement
Child Labor Laws
Square Deal
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act / Clayton Anti-trust Act
16th and 17th Amendments
Federal Reserve System Referendum
Initiative
Recall
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson / Pearson p.264 Q2
Q-1 Gateway pg. 137
Q-5 Gateway pg. 138
Q-9 Gateway pg. 139
Q-10Gateway pg. 139
Q-13 Gateway pg. 140
Q-5 Escambia
U.S. Imperialism / SS.912.A.4.1 Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism. / Imperialism
“Big Stick” Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Open Door Policy / Treaty of Portsmouth
Dollar Diplomacy
Monroe Doctrine / Pearson p.264 Q5
Q-3 Gateway pg. 159
Q-2 Escambia
SS.912.A.4.2 Explain the motives of the United States’ acquisition of the territories. / Expansionism
Alfred T. Mahan
Philippines
Puerto Rico / Cuba
Hawaii
Panama / Q-5 Gateway pg. 160
Q-6 Gateway pg. 160
Q-7Gateway pg. 161
Q-14Gateway pg. 163
SS.912.A.4.3 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish-American War. / Spanish-American War
Platt Amendment
Teller Amendment
Yellow Press
Philippines / U.S.S. Maine
De Lome Letter
Rough Riders
Anti-Imperialist League / Pearson p.264 Q6
Q-1 Gateway pg. 159
Q-2 Gateway pg. 159
Q-4Gateway pg. 159
Q-13Gateway pg. 163
Q-1 Escambia
Q-4 Escambia
SS.912.A.4.4Analyze the economic, military, and security motivations of the United States to complete the Panama Canal as well as major obstacles involved in its construction. / Panama Canal
“Big Stick” Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Yellow Fever
Dollar Diplomacy / Q-9 Gateway pg. 162
Q-10 Gateway pg. 162
Q-5 Escambia
SS.912.A.4.11Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Rough Riders
Jose Marti / Q-16 Gateway pg. 164
Q-17 Gateway pg. 164
Q-7 Escambia
United States’ Involvement in WWI / SS.912.A.4.5 Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I. / Entangling Alliances
Militarism
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
Unrestricted submarine warfare / Sussex Pledge
Nationalism
Imperialism
Mobilization / Pearson p.340 Q1
Q-1 Gateway pg. 185
Q-4 Gateway pg. 186
Q-6Gateway pg. 187
Q-2 Escambia
Q-7 Escambia
SS.912.A.4.6 Examine how the United States government prepared the nation for war with war measures (Selective Service Act, War Industries Board, war bonds, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Committee of Public Information). / Selective Service Act
War Industries Board
War bonds
Espionage Act / Sedition Act
Victory gardens
Committee of Public Information / Q-5Gateway pg. 186
Q-11Gateway pg. 188
Q-14Gateway pg. 189
SS.912.A.4.7 Examine the impact of airplanes, battleships, new weaponry, and chemical warfare in creating new war strategies (trench warfare, convoys). / New Technology in WWI
Trench Warfare
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
U-Boats / Chemical Warfare
Convoys
Machine Guns / Q-12 Gateway pg. 188
SS.912.A.4.8 Compare the experiences Americans (African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, women, conscientious objectors) had while serving in Europe. / African Americans in WWI
Hispanics in WWI
Women in WWI
Conscientious Objectors / Q-9 Gateway pg. 187
SS.912.A.4.9 Compare how the war impacted German Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters in the United States. / Selective Service Act
Espionage Act
Propaganda
War Industries Board
Sedition Act
Committee of Public Information / Q-7 Gateway pg. 187
Q-8 Gateway pg. 187
Q-15 Gateway pg. 189
Q-18 Gateway pg. 190
4.10 Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the United States to support the League of Nations. / Treaty of Versailles
Big Four
League of Nations / Fourteen Points
Armistice
Reparations / Pearson p.341 Q3
Q-13 Gateway pg. 188
Q-16Gateway pg. 190
Q-19 Gateway pg. 190
Q-4 Escambia
4.11Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as they relate to United States History. / Governor Sidney J. Catts
Role of Tampa, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Key West / Q-10 Escambia
“Roaring Twenties” / SS.912.A.5.3 Examine the impact of United States foreign economic policy during the 1920s. / Demobilization
Fordney-McCumber Act
Dawes Plan
Disarmament
Tariffs / Q-1 Gateway pg. 220
Q-6 Gateway pg. 222
SS.912.A.5.5 Describe efforts by the United States and other world powers to avoid future wars. / Disarmament
Dawes Plan
League of Nations
Neutrality Acts
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Four Power Treaty / Washington Naval Conference
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Normalcy
Warren Harding / Q-11 Gateway pg. 223
Q-1 Escambia
SS.912.A.5.10 Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities. / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey
Nativism
Nineteenth Amendment
Minorities / Q-7 Gateway pg. 222
SS.912.A.5.1 Discuss the economic outcomes of demobilization. / Disarmament
Demobilization / Q-2Gateway pg. 220
SS.912.A.5.2Explain the causes of the public reaction (Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare. / Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare
Anarchists
Communists
Nativism
Quota system / Pearson p.342 Q5
Q-3 Gateway pg. 220
Q-4Gateway pg. 221
Q-3 Escambia
Q-7Escambia
SS.912.A.5.6 Analyze the influence that Hollywood, the Harlem Renaissance, the Fundamentalist movement, and prohibition had in changing American society in the 1920s. / Jazz Age
Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalist Movement
Eighteenth Amendment
Volstead Act / Prohibition
Flappers
Speakeasy
Bootlegger / Q-13 Gateway pg. 224
SS.912.A.5.7Examine the freedom movements that advocated civil rights for African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women. / Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Flappers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Nineteenth Amendment / Q-5 Gateway pg. 221
Q-8Gateway pg. 222
SS.912.A.5.8 Compare the views of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey relating to the African-American experience. / Booker T. Washington
W.E.B DuBois
Marcus Garvey / Pearson p.342 Q6
Q-12 Gateway pg. 224
SS.912.A.5.9 Explain why support for the Ku Klux Klan varied in the 1920s with respect to issues such as anti-immigration, anti-African American, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-women, and antiunion ideas. / Nativism
Ku Klux Klan / Q-10 Gateway pg. 223
Q-6 Escambia
SS.912.A.5.12Examine key events and people in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Rosewood Incident
Seminole Indians / Q-14 Gateway pg. 224
The Great Depression and New Deal / SS.912.A.5.11 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal. / Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Bank holiday
Black Tuesday
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Dust Bowl
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Great Depression
Gross National Product (GNP)
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) / National Recovery Act (NRA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Sit-down strike
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Social Security
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Hoovervilles”
Court-Packing Plan / Pearson p.400-402 Q1-Q6
Q-1Gateway pg. 244
Q-3Gateway pg. 245
Q-4Gateway pg. 245
Q-5 Gateway pg. 246
Q-7Gateway pg. 246
Q-8Gateway pg. 247
Q-9Gateway pg. 247
Q-10Gateway pg. 247
Q-12 Gateway pg. 248
Q-2-Q-7 Escambia
SS.912.A.5.4 Evaluate how the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties changed consumers, businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices. / Bull market
Buying on margin
Economic boom
Roaring Twenties
Speculation boom / Q-2Gateway pg. 245
SS.912.A.5.12Examine key events and people in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Florida Park Service
Zora Neale Hurston / Q-6 Gateway pg. 246
World War II / SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. / Coral Sea
Midway
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
Potsdam
Salerno
Tehran Conference / V-E Day
V-J Day
Yalta Conference
Fascism
Nazism
Appeasement
D-Day / Pearson p.482 Q2
Pearson p.483 Q4
Pearson p.541 Q8
Q-2 Gateway pg. 281
Q-5 Gateway pg. 281
Q-8 Gateway pg. 282
Q-1 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.2 Describe the United States’ response in the early years of World War II (Neutrality Acts, Cash and Carry, Lend Lease Act). / Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Acts
“Cash and Carry” / Pearson p.482 Q1
Q-3 Gateway pg. 280
Q-4 Gateway pg. 281
SS.912.A.6.3 Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups. / Final Solution
Holocaust
Ghetto / Kristallnacht
Nuremberg Laws / Q-15 Gateway pg. 284
SS.912.A.6.4 Examine efforts to expand or contract rights for various populations during World War II. / Japanese-American internment
National security
Korematsu v. U.S. / Q-9 Gateway pg. 282
Q-12Gateway pg. 283
Q-13 Gateway pg. 283
SS.912.A.6.5 Explain the impact of World War II on domestic government policy. / Home front / Pearson p.483 Q3
Q-10 Gateway pg. 282
Q-11 Gateway pg. 283
Q-4 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.6 Analyze the use of atomic weapons during World War II and the aftermath of the bombings. / Hiroshima & Nagasaki / Q-14 Gateway pg. 284
SS.912.A.6.7 Describe the attempts to promote international justice through the Nuremberg Trials. / Nuremberg Trials
Manhattan Project / Q-2 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.9 Describe the rationale for the formation of the United Nations, including the contribution of Mary McLeod Bethune. / Mary McLeod Bethune
United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly / Q-16 Gateway pg. 284
SS.912.A.6.15 Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Impact of German U-boats in Florida
Camp Blanding
“Liberty Ships” / Q-11 Escambia
The Cold War / SS.912.A.6.10 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the early years of the Cold War (Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact). / Berlin blockade
Cold War
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
Iron curtain
Marshall Plan / North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Potsdam
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Containment / Pearson p.538 Q1
Pearson p.593 Q7
Q-1 Gateway pg. 304
Q-2 Gateway pg. 304
Q-4 Gateway pg. 305
Q-5 Gateway pg. 305
Q-6 Gateway pg. 305
Q-1 Escambia
Q-3 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.13 Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. / Berlin
Domino theory
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Peace Corps / Q-7 Gateway pg. 306
Q-13Gateway pg. 308
Q-14Gateway pg. 308
SS.912.A.6.8 Analyze the effects of the Red Scare on domestic United States policy. / Loyalty review boards
Loyalty review program
McCarthyism
Red Scare / Pearson p.539 Q3
Q-7 Escambia
Q-10 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.11 Examine the controversy surrounding the proliferation of nuclear technology in the United States and the world. / Arms race
Nuclear proliferation / Pearson p.590 Q2
Q-15Gateway pg. 308
Q-7 Escambia
SS.912.A.6.12 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War. / Korean War
Panmunjom
Demilitarized zone (DMZ) / Q-9 Gateway pg. 306
Q-10 Gateway pg. 307
SS.912.A.6.15 Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Kennedy Space Center / Q-16 Gateway pg. 308
Post-War Prosperity & Civil Rights / SS.912.A.7.1 Identify causes for Post-World War II prosperity and its effects on American society. / Baby boomers
Birth rate
GI Bill of Rights
Interstate Highway System
Suburbs
Conformity / Pearson p539 Q4
Q-1 Gateway pg. 333
Q-2Gateway pg. 334
Q-3 Gateway pg. 334
Q-1 Escambia
Q-2 Escambia
Q-3 Escambia
Q-9 Escambia
SS.912.A.7.2 Compare the relative prosperity between different ethnic groups and social classes in the post–World War II period. / Pearson p540 Q6
Q-5 Escambia
SS.912.A.7.3 Examine the changing status of women in the United States from post–World War II to present. / Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Women in the workforce / Q-18 Gateway pg. 366
Q-20 Gateway pg. 366
SS.912.A.7.6: Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. / Black Panthers
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Freedom Riders
Nation of Islam
National Urban League Sit-ins
Social activism / Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X / Pearson p.590 Q2
Q-4 Gateway pg. 334
Q-7Gateway pg. 335
Q-12 Gateway pg. 336
Q-16 Gateway pg. 337
SS.912.A.7.5 Compare nonviolent and violent approaches utilized by groups (African Americans, women, Native Americans, Hispanics) to achieve civil rights. / American Indian Movement (AIM)
Gray Panthers
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Wounded Knee (1973) / Black Panthers
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Passive resistance
Cesar Chavez / Q-1 Gateway pg. 409
Q-2 Gateway pg. 409
SS.912.A.7.7 Assess the building of coalitions between African Americans, whites, and other groups in achieving integration and equal rights. / March on Washington
Sit-ins
Freedom Riders / Q-10 Gateway pg. 336
SS.912.A.7.8: Analyze significant Supreme Court decisions relating to integration, busing, affirmative action, the rights of the accused, and reproductive rights. / Affirmative action
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Miranda v. Arizona
Swann v. Charlotte / Pearson p.590 Q1
Q-13 Gateway pg. 337
Q-14Gateway pg. 337
SS.912.A.7.9 Examine the similarities of social movements (Native Americans, Hispanics, women, antiwar protesters) of the1960s and 1970s. / American Indian Movement (AIM)
Gray Panthers
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Wounded Knee (1973) / National Organization for Women (NOW)
Passive resistance
Cesar Chavez
Feminism / Pearson p.688 Q2
Pearson p.743 Q8
Q-2 Gateway pg. 409
Q-5Gateway pg. 410
SS.912.A.7.17 Examine key events and key people in Florida history as they relate to United States history. / Tallahassee Bus Boycott
A. Philip Randolph
Harry T. Moore
The 1960s & Vietnam / SS.912.A.6.13 Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. / Cuban Missile Crisis