Social Studies SOL Review

Part 1 – Reconstruction to Industrialization

7th Grade – 2012/2013

Name: ______

History Teacher: ______

Block: ______

**Use your notebook to find the correct answers. This will be graded.**

Due Dates:

A Day – Friday, March 22

B Day – Thursday, March 21

USII.3abc – Reconstruction

Directions: Fill in the blanks using the word bank provided. Each word will be used once.

Reconstruction was the time of ______after the Civil War. It began in ______and ended in ______. Both President Lincoln and General Robert E. Lee wanted the north and the south to ______and ______once the Civil War ended. Frederick Douglass worked to make sure African Americans had ______. He believed the most important right for African Americans to have was the right to ______.

There were 3 important amendments ratified during Reconstruction. The ______abolished slavery, the ______granted citizenship to African Americans and the ______granted all men the right to vote.

The ______helped freedman start their new lives. They provided food, medical care, and most importantly ______.

The ______were laws passed to try and control the freedmen. Congress responded and passed the ______to make sure that African Americans were treated equally to whites. The Civil Rights Act also made the black codes ______.

The Supreme Court case ______decided that segregation was ______. It said that segregation was allowed, as long as the schools, trains, water fountains, etc. were SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. ______segregated African Americans from whites.

______was a civil rights leader who believed that African Americans could gain equality by demanding political (voting), civil and social rights. He was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ______.

______was a civil rights leader who believed that African Americans could gain equality through vocational ______and patience. He understood the importance of learning the skills and trades that would make African Americans successful. He founded the Tuskegee Institute.

The ______. Once the military left the South, the wealthy, white plantation owners took control of the governments, and began taking away the rights of the freemen.

Pessy v. Ferguson / Freedman’s Bureau / 13th / 14th / 15th / rebuilding / 1865 / Black codes
Civil Rights Act 1866 / W.E.B. Dubois / Jim Crow laws / legal / Booker T. Washington / education / illegal / NAACP
1877 / Civil rights / education / reunite / Compromise 1877 / reconcile / vote

USII.2a – Westward Expansion and the Great Plains

Directions: Fill in the blanks using the word bank.

technology / treeless / barbed wire / “treeless wasteland” / windmills / steel plows
west / dry farming / eroded / sod houses / dust storms
  • In the early 1800’s, the Great Plains were seen as a ______.
  • The Great Plains were ______flatlands that rose gradually from east to ______.
  • The land was tough prairie soil that was often ______by wind and water.
  • ______often occurred because of little rainfall and high wind.
  • New ______helped people adapt to the harsh conditions of the Great Plains.
  • ______protected fields from unwanted people and animals.
  • ______helped farmers dig deep into the hard soil.
  • People built ______because they didn’t have any other resources for shelter.
  • The farming technique called ______allowed farmers to plant seeds deep into the ground where there was moisture.

USII.2a – Westward Expansion and The Great Plains

Directions: Match each of the technologies/adaptations to the correct description

_____ Barbed wire

_____ Steel plows

_____ Dry farming

_____ Sod houses

_____ Beef cattle raising

_____ Wheat

_____ Windmills

_____ Railroads

  1. Farming technique that required seeds to be planed deep in the soil where there was enough moisture
  2. Crop that grew well on the Great Plains
  3. Protected the farmer’s land from unwanted cattle
  4. Type of house Great Plains farmers lived in
  5. Faster transportation
  6. Technology that dug through the tough, sod soil
  7. Wide open spaces for cattle grazing allowed this to grow
  8. Technology that brought water from the ground

USII.4a –Westward Expansion – Reasons

Directions: Fill in the blanks to explain the 5 reasons people began moving West after the Civil War.

USII.4a – Westward Expansion – American Indians’ Reactions

Directions: Write True or False next to each statement.

  1. The Battle of Little Bighorn was fought as a way to oppose westward expansion onto Indian land. ______
  2. Sitting Bull tried to take his tribe to Canada instead of moving onto a reservation. ______
  3. Wounded Knee was the final battle between American Indians and the U.S. military. ______
  4. The reduction of the buffalo as westward expansion increased had no effect on the American Indians. ______
  5. American Indians’ homelands were reduced over and over again as treaties were broken. ______

USII.4b – Reasons for Immigration

Directions – Fill in the blanks to explain the 4 reasons people began immigrating to the U.S. after the Civil War.

______for better opportunities

______from bad governments

______

______freedom

USII.4b – Urbanization

Directions – Match the city with what industry it specialized in during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

_____Detroit

_____Pittsburgh

_____ Chicago

_____ New England region

  1. Steel
  2. Meatpacking
  3. Textiles
  4. Automobiles

USII.4d – Industrialization

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct word from the word bank.

There were several reasons why industries grew after the Civil War:

  • ______were created with the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
  • Captains of Industry, which include ______(steel), ______(oil), ______(automobiles), and ______(railroads and shipping)
  • ______in magazines, newspapers, and catalogs
  • The ______, which lowered the cost to produce products.
  • Access to lots of ______materials
  • Available ______because of immigration
  • New ______, such as the ______which was invented by Thomas Edison and the ______which was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
  • All of the above helped transform the U.S .from an ______to an ______nation.

Assembly line / workforce / light bulb / Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford / National markets / inventions / telephone
industrial / advertising / agricultural
raw / John D. Rockefeller / Cornelius Vanderbilt / advertising

USII.2bc – Geography

Directions: Label each region of the United States. Next, write what the labeled cities specialized in during the age of industrialization.

Region

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______
  6. ______
  7. ______

City

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______