Geography: Did I Learn It



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 Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

Please answer the following:

1. What is racial segregation?

|F | |

|L | |

|E | |

|D | |

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 Carnegie d. John D. Rockefeller

b. Henry Ford e. 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 Havana Harbor

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.*

5. _________________________ was a painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through art

6. _________________________ was a poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots

7. _________________________ and Louis Armstrong were jazz musicians

8. _________________________ was a blues singer

Please match the following with its correct response:

_____ Jobs _____Bootleggers

_____18th Amendment _____Prohibition

_____ Speakeasies _____ North and Midwest

_____ 21st Amendment _____ Discrimination

A. places for people to drink alcoholic beverages

B. made and smuggled alcohol illegally and promoted organized crime

C. repealed Prohibition

D. these were scarce and low paying in the South

E. African Americans faced this in the South as well as in other parts of the country

F. initiated Prohibition

G. in addition to the South, African Americans faced violence here

H. 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. Poland c. Belgium

b. Czechoslovakia d. the Soviet Union

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

a. China c. the Soviet Union

b. Japan d. 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; Paris c. Belgium; Brussels

b. France; Versailles d. 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 London c. the Two-Month Battle

b. The Great British Battle d. 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 Harbor c. Havana Harbor

b. Emerald Isle d. Oahu Bay

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

a. Japan c. the Soviet Union

b. Germany d. Great Britain

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

a. Bulgaria c. the Soviet Union

b. Austria d. 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 Midway c. Battle of Stalingrad

b. Battle of Okinawa d. Battle of Britain

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

a. Moscow c. Stalingrad

b. Poland d. Midway

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

a. Freedom Day c. Churchill’s Day

b. V-E Day d. 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 Tokyo c. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

b. Tokyo and Nagasaki d. 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. Irish c. Catholic

b. Jewish d. German

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

a. Anti-Semitism c. Anti-Germanic

b. Anti-Judaism d. 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.

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. American involvement in World War II brought an end to the Great Depression because…

a. factories and workers were needed to produce goods to win the war.

b. Great Britain paid America to fight on their side.

c. America took money from Germany to give to migrant workers.

d. Americans could sell overproduced crops to Allied soldiers.

2. Social changes included a temporary break down of racial barriers, though there was still discrimination against __________. Many women, represented by “__________” took jobs in defense plants.

a. African Americans; Rosie the Riveter

b. French Americans; Rosie the Riveter

c. Irish Americans; Rosie the Right

d. Belgian Americans; Rosie the Right

3. While many Japanese Americans served in the armed forces, others were treated with distrust and prejudice, and many were forced into…

a. concentration camps.

b. death camps.

c. internment camps.

d. summer camps.

4. Americans at home supported the war by conserving and…

a. rationing.

b. spending excess amounts of money.

c. collecting old Civil War weaponry.

d. fighting from their front porches.

Please fill in the blanks below:

1. Rising tension developed between the ____________________ and Japan because of Japanese aggression in East Asia

2. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at ____________________ without warning.

3. The United States then declared war on ____________________.

4. ____________________ then declared war on the United States.

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

What factors led to changing patterns in United States

society?

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. Which conflict in the post-World War II era ended in a stalemate?

a. Korean War

b. Chinese War

c. Vietnam War

d. Russian War

2. Which event occurred when the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba and then removed them in response to a U.S. blockade of Cuba?

a. Chinese Missile Crisis

b. Cuban Missile Crisis

c. Communist Missile Crisis

d. Soviet Missile Crisis

3. The fear that ____________________ would spread to other countries was called the “Domino Theory.”

a. socialism

b. fascism

c. communism

d. capitalism

4. What conflict ended with a cease-fire and the removal of American troops?

a. Korean War

b. Chinese War

c. Vietnam War

d. Russian War

Please fill in the blanks below:

1. After rationing of consumer goods was over, businesses converted from production of ____________________ to consumer goods.

2. Americans, like they had in the Roaring Twenties, began to purchase goods on ____________________.

3. Immediately following World War II, the work force shifted back to men, but as prosperity and technology continued to boom, ____________________ entered the labor force in large numbers.

4. Labor unions merged and became more powerful; workers gained new benefits and higher ____________________

Please complete the following by circling the correct response:

1. What gave educational, housing and employment benefits to veterans?

a. Bill of Rights

b. Veteran Benefits Act

c. Grateful Americans Act

d. G.I. Bill of Rights

2. Who desegregated the armed forces?

a. Harry S. Truman

b. Franklin D. Roosevelt

c. John F. Kennedy

d. Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. Civil Rights legislation led to increased educational, economic and political opportunities for whom?

a. veterans

b. active military

c. women and minorities

d. children

4. A leader in expanding human rights after World War II was…

a. Eleanor Roosevelt.

b. Frederick Douglass.

c. Abraham Lincoln.

d. Booker T. Washington

Please fill in the blanks below:

Please fill in the blanks below:

1. The ____________________ Plan was devised to rebuild Europe by providing massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism.

2. West Germany became democratic and resumed self-government after a few years of American, British and French occupation. East Germany remained under the domination of the ____________________ and did not accept democratic institutions.

3. Following its defeat, ____________________ was occupied by American forces. It soon adopted a democratic form of government, resumed self-government, and became a strong ally of the United States.

4. The ____________________ was formed near the end of World War II to create a body for the nations of the world to try to prevent future global wars.

Please match the description to the words below (note that there is one extra word!):

A. Montgomery Bus Boycott

B. Plessy v. Ferguson

C. NAACP

D. Voting Rights Act of 1965

E. Brown v. Board of Education

F. Civil Rights Act of 1964

G. Civil Rights Movement

H. segregation

I. March on Washington

1. _____ Effects caused separate educational facilities for white and African-American students, separate public facilities and social isolation of races.

2. _____ Supreme Court case which desegregated schools

3. _____ Methods included organized protests, Freedom Riders, sit-ins and marches

4. _____ To protest the arrest of Rosa Parks (for refusing to give up her seat to a white man), this group effort took place in Alabama

5. _____ Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I have a dream…” speech at this event

6. _____ This group was created to fight for equal rights for African-Americans

7. _____ This outlawed segregation in restaurants, hotels and other public facilities

8. _____This outlawed unfair voting tactics such as poll taxes and literacy tests

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women

education

highway

Baby Boom

family

equal

Eleanor Roosevelt

economy

Results of the Spanish- American War

The United States gained _______________,

Guam and _______________

The United States emerged as a _______________

_______________

_______________ gained independence from Spain

The ____________________ failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system.

People overspeculated on ____________________, using borrowed money that they could not repay when stock prices crashed.

High ___________________ discouraged international trade.

1. A large number of ____________________ and other businesses failed

2. One-fourth of workers were without jobs

3. Large numbers of people were left hungry and ____________________

4. Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels

1. ____________________ Security

2. Federal ____________________ programs

3. Environmental improvement programs

4. ____________________ assistance programs

5. Increased rights for labor

_______________

(trying to stay out of worldwide issues)

Giving

_______________

aid to the Allies

_______________

involvement in the war

Strong ________________ (healthy job market, increased productivity, increased demand for American products)

Greater investment in ________________

The “________________,” which led to changing demographics

Interstate ________________ system

Evolving role of ________________ (expected to play a supporting role in the ________________ while increasingly working outside the home)

Role of ________________ in expanding human rights

African Americans’ aspirations (goals) for ________________ opportunities

____________________: The state of tension without actual fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union, which divided the world into two camps.

The United States government was ____________________ and ____________________.

The Soviet Union government was ____________________ and ____________________.

After WWII, the Soviet Union dominated over ____________________ European countries.

To stop the spread of communism, the United States had a policy called ____________________.

The two camps in the Cold War were the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vs. the ____________________ Pact.

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