Fall Benchmark Review

Amendments

100

These amendments granted rights to former slaves

13th, 14th, 15th amendments

1

200

This amendment gave women the right to vote

19th amendment

1

300

This amendment allowed the government to collect an income tax from you

16th amendment

1

400

This amendment made alcohol illegal. 

This amendment made alcohol legal again

18th amendment

21st amendment

1

500

This amendment allows you to vote directly on a senator

17th amendment

1

Gilded Age & Progressive Era

100

Anti immigrant feelings over job competition and ethnic and cultural differences

Nativism

2.10

200

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Protects consumers by regulating food and drugs

2.6

300

Stronger steel=cheaper materials for roads, bridges, skyscrapers

Bessemer Process

2.9

400

What are some of the problems/impacts of increased urban population?

Overcrowding, disease, need for sanitation crews, pollution, growth of cities, shrinking farm land

3.2

500

Groups like Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor fought for--

Better pay and better working conditions

2.8

Imperialism-WW1

100

Built through Central America to shorten the trip between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Panama Canal

4.6

200

What territories did we gain and why did we need them?

Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Guam, Hawaii

New markets for resources

4.7 4.7a

300

What events caused the US to declare war on Germany?

Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare)

Zimmerman Telegram

4.8

400

Why did the US not sign the Treaty of Versailles?

The Senate opposed our participation in the League of Nations (wanted to stay isolated)

4.9

500

Who dis? Alfred T. Mahan

Who dis? John J Pershing

Wrote about naval history, advocated for overseas expansion

Successfully led the American Expeditionary Forces

4.1 & 4.7

1920s & 1930s

100

Made cars on the assembly line so more Americans could afford them

Henry Ford

5.6

200

Flappers

Women who shifted away from traditional roles of women

5.5

300

People were unable to repay loans used to purchase stocks

Stock Market Investing--cause of the Great Depression

5.11

400

How did the New Deal change the relationship between the people and the government?

People began to rely on the government for assistance

5.13

500

Court Packing Plan

FDR's plan to add more Supreme Court Justices because some of them had ruled against his New Deal Programs

5.3 & 5.12

World War II Fighting

100

Event that prompted the United States to join WWII

Pearl Harbor

6.4

200

Turning point battle in Europe

Normandy (D-Day)

6.3

300

Turning point battle in the Pacific

Midway

6.5

400

Island Hopping

US strategy to seize Pacific islands to establish military bases 

6.7

500

Who dis? Alvin York & Vernon Baker

Medal of Honor recipients