Please use the following regions of the United States to match each to the states and cities listed below. You may use each region more than once.

Midwest / Noncontiguous / Northeast
Pacific / Rocky Mountain / Southeast
Southwest

______1. Wyoming

______2. Illinois

______3. Vermont

______4. Oklahoma

______5. West Virginia

______6. Hawaii

______7. Nebraska

______8. Georgia

______9. St. Louis

______10. New Orleans

______11. Juneau

______12. Philadelphia

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. Which Reconstruction amendment gave former slaves the right to vote?

a. 13th amendment

b. 14th amendment

c. 15th amendment

2. Which Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery?

a. 13th amendment

b. 14th amendment

c. 15th amendment

3. Which Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to former slaves?

a. 13th amendment

b. 14th amendment

c. 15th amendment

4. What was promised by all three Reconstruction amendments?

a. a government apology to all former slaves

b. equal protection under the law for all citizens

c. rebuilding of Southern homes destroyed during the war

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

military / equal / carpetbaggers
public / soldiers / Black Codes
compromise / aid

1. Northern ______supervised the South.

2. African Americans could hold ______office.

3. Reconstruction ended with a ______in 1877 and federal troops were removed from the South.

4. Southern ______leaders could not hold office.

5. Southern states adopted ______to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.

6. The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to ______former enslaved African Americans in the South.

7. Southerners resented Northern ______who took advantage of the South during Reconstruction.

8. African Americans gained ______rights as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which also authorized the use of federal troops for its enforcement.

Please match the following with its correct response:

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. Robert E. Lee

c. Frederick Douglass

_____1. Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights

_____2. Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation; preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South

_____3. Was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all

_____4. Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite Americans when some wanted to continue to fight; became president of WashingtonCollege (now Washington and LeeUniversity)

Please answer the following:

1. What is racial segregation?

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2. What were the “Jim Crow” laws?

3. Who is Booker T. Washington?

4. Who is W.E.B. Dubois?

Please complete the following chart:

Physical Features and Climate of the Great Plains

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

barbed wire / beef cattle raising / dry farming
railroad / sod house / steel plow
wheat farming / windmill

Wow! I cannot believe that we are living in what was once a “treeless wasteland.” I am happy that there is enough land to build a ______for us to live in. I am going to need some ______to be able to protect my land, particularly from wild animals. I am making so much money ______and sending the animals to the ______so they can be shipped back East. I also use the meat for meals, as well as the grain I grow while ______. I do not know how I could grow the wheat without a ______to dig into the ground, and the new technique of ______, which allows me to grow the wheat with little water. That ______on my land sure comes in handy to bring water to the crops. I hope we continue to enjoy living on the Great Plains!

Please fill in the blanks below:

Reasons for Westward Expansion

1. Opportunities for ______ownership

2. ______advances, including the Transcontinental ______

3. Possibility of obtaining ______, created by the discovery of ______and silver

4. Desire for ______

5. Desire for a new ______for former ______African Americans

Please match the following with its correct response:

a. Andrew Carnegied. John D. Rockefeller

b. Henry Forde. Cornelius Vanderbilt

c. J.P. Morgan

_____ 1. Associated with the steel industry

_____ 2. Utilized the assembly line to produce goods more efficiently

_____ 3. Associated with the railroad and shipping industry

_____ 4. Associated with the automobile industry

_____ 5. Created a monopoly to gain control of his industry

_____ 6. Operated mills in Pittsburgh

_____ 7. Associated with the banking industry

_____ 8. Associated with the oil industry

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

factories and mills / natural resources
financial resources/capital / advertising
lower production costs / home and national markets
advanced transportation / labor supply

1) Businesses started with ______such as coal, iron, wood, or cattle.

2) Natural resources were shipped to factories on ______.

3) In ______raw materials became finished products to be sold.

4) More ______was available and businesses could pay workers less.

5) Assembly lines and cheap labor helped to create______.

6) Lots of ______was needed to start or expand a business.

7) Railroads allowed finished products to be shipped out to ______.

8) ______tried to get consumers’ interest and expand the business’s market.

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

labor needs / industrial
Alexander Graham Bell / mechanization
immigrants / Thomas Edison
consumer goods / agricultural

1. Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States was transformed from a/an ______to a/an ______nation.

2. ______, such as the reaper, reduced farm labor needs and increased production.

3. Industrial development in cities created increased ______.

4. Former farmers and ______provided most of the labor supply in factories.

5. Industrialization provided new access to ______, helped by the mail order catalog.

6. ______improved the light bulb and mechanical uses of electricity.

7. ______made the first long distance phone call and created telephone service.

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. The textile industry was centered in which region or city?

a. Pittsburgh

b. New York

c. New England

d. Chicago

2. Cattle were sent from Texas to which city, in order to be packaged into meat?

a. Pittsburgh

b. New York

c. New England

d. Chicago

3. In order find the automobile industry, you would visit which city?

a. Detroit

b. Chicago

c. Pittsburgh

d. New England

4. Advanced transportation brought iron ore to steel mills in which city or region?

a. New York

b. Pittsburgh

c. Chicago

d. Detroit

Please fill in the blanks below:

Reasons for the Increase in Immigration

1. ______for better opportunities

2. Desire for ______freedom

3. ______from oppressive governments

4. Desire for ______

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

Boss Tweed / discrimination / ghetto
Irish / job / political machine
tenement / vote

Dear Mom and Dad,

I cannot believe that I am in America! It is everything that I imagined it to be but there are some bad things about living in the city. The ______where I live is very crowded and smelly. I thought that I would be comfortable in the ______here in New York City because I am around people like me but I find it much noisier than the farms back home. Being an ______immigrant has made it so that I face a great deal of ______when I am out in public. Thankfully this gentleman named ______has offered me a ______. All I need to do is ______for him and others he recommends. I am starting to wonder whether this is a proper thing to do. I keep hearing rumors about all the money that is being taken from the government by the ______here. I’m sure that it will get better!

Love, Joseph

Please fill in the blanks below:

Reasons Why Cities Grew and Developed

1. ______industries, including ______(Pittsburgh) and meat packing (______)

2. ______to America from other ______

3. Movement of Americans from ______to ______areas for ______opportunities

Please fill in the blanks below:

Negative Effects of Industrialization / Workplace Reforms
  • ______labor
/
  • ______on child labor

  • ______hours, ______wages
/
  • Reduced work ______

  • ______working conditions
/
  • Improved ______conditions

The changes above were due to some of the successes of the ______Movement.

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. What is a labor union?

a. workers who quit and then create their own company

b. a group of workers who want better conditions and pay

c. citizens fighting for creation of jobs

d. farmers who must leave the west

2. What was the major labor union of the Progressive Era AND who was the founder?

a. American Federation of Labor; Samuel Gompers

b. American Federation of Labor; Upton Sinclair

c. National Work Group; Samuel Gompers

d. National Work Group; Upton Sinclair

3. What was the Homestead Strike?

a. farmers in the west demanding cheaper land

b. American Indians attacking sod houses in the west

c. a strike demanding better pay in the oil industry

d. a strike held at the Carnegie Steel plant in Pennsylvania

4. What was the aftermath of the Homestead Strike?

a. unions gained support and the workers got a pay raise

b. the boss was forced to go bankrupt

c. it temporarily weakened the power of unions after the strikers were defeated

d. the Secretary of Labor was elected

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

alcohol / Anthony / educational
Eighteenth (18th) / making / Nineteenth (19th)
prohibited / Stanton / Suffrage
Temperance / voting / women

1) The ______Movement wanted to increase ______opportunities for women as well as gain ______rights.

2) ______and ______worked for women’s suffrage.

3) The ______Amendment allowed ______the right to vote.

4) The ______Movement composed of groups opposed to the ______and consumption of ______.

5) The ______Amendment ______the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages.

Please fill in the blanks below:

What did the Roosevelt Corollary do?

1. Asserted the United States’ right to interfere

in the ______matters of other nations in the Americas

2. Claimed the United States’ right to exercise international ______power

3. Advocated “______” Diplomacy (building the ______Canal)

Please fill in the blanks below:

What were the reasons for the

Spanish American War?

1. Protection of American ______interests in Cuba

2. American support of Cuban rebels to gain independence from ______

3. Rising tensions between Spain and the United States as a result of the sinking of the ______in HavanaHarbor

4. Exaggerated news reports called ______.

Please fill in the blanks below:

What were the results of the Spanish-American War?

Please fill in the blanks below:

Who were the major Allied Powers and

Central Powers in World War I?

Allied Powers

  • British Empire
  • ______
  • ______
  • ______
  • ______
  • United States

Central Powers

  • ______Empire
  • ______-Hungarian Empire
  • ______
  • ______Empire

Please fill in the blanks below:

What were the reasons for U.S. Involvement

in World War I?

1. Inability to remain ______

2. German submarine warfare, such as the sinking of the ______

3. United States ______and political ties to Great Britain

4. The ______Telegram

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. Who created the Fourteen Points?

a. President Theodore Roosevelt

b. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

c. President Woodrow Wilson

d. President William McKinley

2. What did the Fourteen Points call to create?

a. World Showcase

b. United Nations

c. International Police

d. League of Nations

3. What was the goal of the proposed organization mentioned above?

a. peacekeeping

b. creation of an alliance for the Allied Powers

c. establishment of an international treasury

d. construction of a fortress for weapons

4. Who failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

a. U.S. House of Representatives

b. U.S. Senate

c. U.S. President

d. U.S. Supreme Court

Please use the following word bank to fill in the blanks below:

Duke Ellington / Jacob Lawrence
Georgia O’Keefe / Aaron Copland
F. Scott Fitzgerald / John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes / Bessie Smith
  1. ______was an artist known for urban scenes and later for paintings of the Southwest
  2. ______was a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s
  3. ______was a novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930s
  4. ______and George Gershwin were composers who wrote uniquely American music

*The following are African American artists, writers and musicians based in Harlem who revealed the freshness and variety of African American culture.*

  1. ______was a painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through art
  2. ______was a poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots
  3. ______and Louis Armstrong were jazz musicians
  4. ______was a blues singer

Please match the following with its correct response:

_____ Jobs_____Bootleggers

_____18th Amendment_____Prohibition

_____ Speakeasies_____ North and Midwest

_____ 21st Amendment_____ Discrimination

  1. places for people to drink alcoholic beverages
  2. made and smuggled alcohol illegally and promoted organized crime
  3. repealed Prohibition
  4. these were scarce and low paying in the South
  5. African Americans faced this in the South as well as in other parts of the country
  6. initiated Prohibition
  7. in addition to the South, African Americans faced violence here
  8. imposed by a constitutional amendment that made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. Which was not a result of improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles?

a. Microwave dinners

b. Creation of jobs

c. Growth of transportation-related industries (such as road construction, oil, steel and automobile)

d. Movement to suburban areas and greater mobility

2. Communication changes of the 1920s include all of the following except:

a. increased availability of telephones.

b. development of the radio and broadcast industry.

c. development of the movies.

d. creation of the telegraph.

3. What is not an example of how electrification changed American life?

a. Labor-saving products

b. Electric lighting and improved communication

c. People read by candlelight

d. Entertainment

4. Which is not true of the 1920s?

a. Henry Ford’s assembly line helped the automobile industry

b. There was a rise in mechanization

c. There was expanded use of the airplane (thanks to the Wright brothers)

d. The television became widely used in the home

Please fill in the blanks below:

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

What was the impact on Americans?

What were major features of the New Deal?

Please fill in the blanks below:

1. Democratic nations such as the United States, Great Britain and Canada were known as the ______.

2. The Soviet Union joined the Allies after being invaded by ______.

Please fill in the charts below:

Allied Leader / Country
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Great Britain
Joseph Stalin

American policy toward WWII

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. Which answer best shows the political instability and devastation in Europe resulting from World War I?

a. Worldwide depression

b. High war debt owed by Germany

c. High inflation

d. Massive unemployment

e. All of the above

2. What is fascism?

a. A government in which the people elect their leader

b. A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator, individual freedoms are denied, and nationalism (and often racism) is emphasized

c. A government in which citizens can own their own business

d. A political philosophy in which a dictator has limited rights

3. Which leader is not a fascist dictator?

a. Adolf Hitler (Germany)

b. Winston Churchill (Great Britain)

c. Benito Mussolini (Italy)

d. Hideki Tojo (Japan)

4. The countries led by the fascist dictators in WWII were known as…

a. the Axis Powers.

b. the Allies.

c. the Axis of Evil.

d. the Central Powers.

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. On September 1, 1939, Germany shocked the rest of the world by invading which country (thus starting World War II)?

a. Polandc. Belgium

b. Czechoslovakiad. the Soviet Union

2. After Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, who invaded Poland and the Baltic nations in the east?

a. Chinac. the Soviet Union

b. Japand. Bulgaria

3. Which country’s capital was captured early in the war, thus leaving Great Britain to fight Germany alone? What was the name of the capital?

a. France; Parisc. Belgium; Brussels

b. France; Versaillesd. Belgium; Amsterdam

4. Which battle was fought in Great Britain and lasted two months because Great Britain’s new leader, Winston Churchill, refused to surrender?

a. Battle of Londonc. the Two-Month Battle

b. The Great British Battled. Battle of Britain

5. The Lend-Lease policy was when…

a. Great Britain paid the United States to rent their tanks and ammunition

b. The United States gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean

c. Japan bribed Germany to gain weapons for fighting on the Pacific front

d. Germany and the Soviet Union borrowed and shared each other’s weapons between the western and eastern fronts

6. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States in…

a. Pearl Harborc. HavanaHarbor

b. Emerald Isled. OahuBay

7. Following Japan’s surprise attack on the United States, ______declared war on the United States.

a. Japanc. the Soviet Union

b. Germanyd. Great Britain

8. In June 1941, Germany again shocked the world by defying its non-aggression pact and invading which country?

a. Bulgariac. the Soviet Union

b. Austriad. Serbia

9. In June 1942, the United States was victorious over Japan in battle, serving as a turning point of the war in the Pacific. What was the name of this battle?

a. Battle of Midwayc. Battle of Stalingrad

b. Battle of Okinawad. Battle of Britain

10. The turning point of war in Eastern Europe was at the Battle of ______, when the Soviet Union defeated Germany.

a. Moscowc. Stalingrad

b. Polandd. Midway

11. American and other Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on ______to begin the liberation of western Europe.

a. Freedom Dayc. Churchill’s Day

b. V-E Dayd. D-Day

12. The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, forcing Japan to surrender and ending World War II. What were the names of the two cities that were bombed?

a. Hiroshima and Tokyoc. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

b. Tokyo and Nagasakid. Tokyo and Kyoto

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. The Holocaust was a systematic attempt to rid Europe of all of which group of people?

a. Irishc. Catholic

b. Jewishd. German

2. What is the word used to describe hatred of the group above?

a. Anti-Semitismc. Anti-Germanic

b. Anti-Judaismd. Anti-Celtic

Please fill out the blanks below:

3. Adolf Hitler strongly believed in “______Supremacy” in which races other than the white “master race” were seen as inferior.

4. Tactics used in the Holocaust:

______

______of Jewish stores

______(separating them from all other citizens)

Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in ______camps and death camps

5. The Jews and others who survived in concentration camps were liberated by ______forces.