Q3 American History Cumulative
SS.912.A.3.4 Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business practices affected the United States economy. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following is an economic graph from 1867 - 1882. What conclusion about the Second Industrialization Revolution can be made from the graph?
As technology improves the price of goods decreases.
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 2.7 - Review the Native American experience. The following photographs are from the late 19th century. Which U.S. government policy do these photographs illustrate?
Assimilation of Native Americans
Standard 3: Industrial Revolution: Analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in response to the Industrial Revolution. Benchmark 3.1 - Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. The following is an 1894 political cartoon. Which statement would the cartoonist MOST likely support?
Bimetalism will lead to economic prosperity
S.912.A.5.10: Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities. Also assesses SS.912.A.1.1, SS.912.A.1.2, SS.912.A.1.3, SS.912.A.1.4, SS.912.A.1.7,SS.912.A.5.2, SS.912.A.5.6, SS.912.A.5.7, SS.912.A.5.8, SS.912.A.5.9, and SS.912.A.5.12. The quote below is from 1913 "The Indian, though a man without a country, the Indian who has suffered a thousand wrongs considered the white man's burden and from mountains, plains and divides, the Indian threw himself into the struggle to help throttle the unthinkable tyranny of the Hun. The Indian helped to free Belgium, helped to free all the small nations, helped to give victory to the Stars and Stripes. The Indian went to France to help avenge the ravages of autocracy. Now, shall we not redeem ourselves by redeeming all the tribes?" Joseph K. Dixon How did the U.S. government change the situation described in the quote?
By passing the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
SS.912.A.3.10 Review different economic and philosophic ideologies. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following cartoon is from 1889. What economic philosophy is most evident in the cartoon?
Capitalism
Benchmark 4.1: Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism. Also assesses SS.912.A.1.1, SS.912.A.1.2, SS.912.A.1.3, SS.912.A.1.4, SS.912.A.1.7, SS.912.A.4.2, SS.912.A.4.3, SS.912.A.4.4 and SS.912.A.4.11. The political cartoon below is from 1899. With which statement would the artist agree?
"When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys." (George Orwell)
Benchmark 3.1 - Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. 3.6 - Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society. The flow chart below illustrates agricultural events during the late 19th century.... Rise and Fall of the Farm economy, late 1800s | | | New Mechanized farm tools lead to increased production | | | Crop output rises steadily from 1870-1900 | | | Prices for agricultural products fall | | | ? Which conclusion is MOST accurate?
Advancements in technology reduced the number of farms.
SS.912.A.5.4: Evaluate how the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties changed consumers, businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices. Increased availability of consumer goods --> Rise of modern advertising --> ? Which statement BEST completes the flow chart?
Americans buy consumer goods on credit
Benchmark SS.912.A.7.6: Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Benchmark SS.912.A.7.7: Assess the building of coalitions between African Americans, whites, and other groups in achieving integration and equal rights. This button commemorates the 1963 March on Washington. Based on this button, what was needed for the march to be effective?
Coalition between different groups
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. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following table demonstrates the impact of a Progressive reform. Year | Literacy in English 1871 | 80% 1880 | 83% 1890 | 87% 1900 | 89% 1910 | 92% 1920 | 94% What progressive reform effort MOST contributed to effects demonstrated in the table?
Compulsory Schooling Movement
SS.912.A.5.5: Describe efforts by the United States and other world powers to avoid future wars. Also assesses SS.912.A.1.1, SS.912.A. 1.2, SS.912.A.1.3, SS.912.A.1.4, and SS.912.A.1.7. Below is a Charles Evans Hughes quote. "War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals." Which of the following would Mr. Hughes support?
Congressional refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.13: Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The image below represents a Cold War ideology. The policy that best represents the the phenomenon is
Domino Theory
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Benchmark SS.912.A.6.3: Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups. The infographic below illustrates data on deaths as a result of the Holocaust. What conclusion can be made based on this infographic?
Eastern Europeans faced a greater chance of dying in the Holocaust.
SS.912.A.3.3 Compare the First and Second Industrial Revolutions in the United States. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. Labor Unions Progressives Skyscrapers Urbanization What is the MOST appropriate title for the above table?
Effects of the Second Industrial Revolution
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. The following chart represents America between 1920 and 1933. Criminals found a new source of income. Disrespect for the law developed. Increase in lawlessness, such as smuggling and bootlegging, was evident. Organized crime grew. Which of the following groups support for the Volstead Act MOST likely caused the actions in the above chart?
Fundamentalists
SS.912.A.3.5 Identify significant inventors of the Industrial Revolution, including African Americans and women. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following table is related to Second Industrial Revolution inventors. Face Ointment • Peanuts • Sweet potato's • Tuskegee Institute Which of the following inventors is MOST closely related to the table.
George Washington Carver
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.13: Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Benchmark SS.912.A.6.11: Examine the controversy surrounding the proliferation of nuclear technology in the United States and the world. The following is an excerpt from a 1953 speech President Eisenhower gave during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. ...If at one time the United States possessed what might have been called a monopoly of atomic power, that monopoly ceased to exist several years ago. Therefore, although our earlier start has permitted us to accumulate what is today a great quantitative advantage, the atomic realities of today comprehend two facts of even greater significance. First, the knowledge now possessed by several nations will eventually be shared by others, possibly all others. Second, even a vast superiority in numbers of weapons, and a consequent capability of devastating retaliation, is no preventive, of itself, against the fearful material damage and toll of human lives that would be inflicted by surprise aggression... Based on this excerpt, what concern does Eisenhower have?
Great destruction will result because nothing is being done to limit nuclear weapons
Benchmark 4.5: Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I. 4.7: Examine the impact of airplanes, battleships, new weaponry, and chemical warfare in creating new war strategies (trench warfare, convoys). The following book cover is related to World War I. What new World War I strategy is MOST related to the above book cover?
Heavy artillery
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Benchmark SS.912.A.6.8: Analyze the effects of the Red Scare on domestic United States policy. What action was supported by literature like this?
House Un-American Activities Committee investigations
Benchmark 4.5: Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I. 4.10: Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the United States to support the League of Nations. The following excerpt is about the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. "Membership in the League of Nations "would draw America away from her isolation and into the internal affairs and concerns of Europe"... "Once having surrendered and become a part of the European concerns ...where, my friends, are you going to stop?" The above excerpt MOST closely reflects the beliefs of which of the following groups?
Irreconcilables
Benchmark SS.912.A. 6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Also assesses SS.912.A.6.3, SS.912.A.6.4, SS.912.A.6.5, SS.912.A.6.6, SS.912.A.6.7, SS.912.A.6.8, SS.912.A.6.9, and SS.912.A.6.15. Below is a map of an Allied Offensive plan during World War II.
Island hopping
SS.912.A.5.11: Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Also assesses SS.912.A.1.1, SS.912.A.1.2, SS.912.A.1.3, SS.912.A.1.4, SS.912.A.1.7, SS.912.A.5.4, and SS.912.A.5.12. Below is a 1930s photograph. What effect of the stock market crash is illustrated in this photograph?
Lack of confidence in banks
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Benchmark 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). The following political cartoon is from the late 1930s. Which of the following would the cartoonist oppose?
Lend Lease Act
SS.912.A.5.2: Explain the causes of the public reaction (Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare. Below is a 1919 political cartoon. Whose beliefs are represented in this cartoon?
Mitchell Palmer
Benchmark SS.912.A.7.6: Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Benchmark SS.912.A.7.5: Compare nonviolent and violent approaches utilized by groups (African Americans, women, Native Americans, Hispanics) to achieve civil rights. This photograph is from the 1965 March to Selma, Alabama. Which strategy did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference employ for this march?
Non-violent demonstration
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 2.3 - Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. Which Congressional action was an attempt by Radical Republicans to advance their plan for Reconstruction?
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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 anti-union ideas. Below is a political cartoon from the 1920s. Based on this cartoon, which group below would support the KKK's action?
Prohibitionists
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. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following is a graphic organizer from the Progressive Era. The Jungle + Government Action = ? What federal action accurately completes the graphic organizer?
Pure Food and Drug Act
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Benchmark SS.912.A.6.5: Explain the impact of World War II on domestic government policy. This image is from a World War II pamphlet.
Rationing
Benchmark 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). Below is a 1948 map of Berlin. What conclusion about post-war Europe can be made?
Relations between wartime allies became confrontational
Standard 5: Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression - Analyze the effects of the changing social, political, and economic conditions of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. SS.912.A.5.1: Discuss the economic outcomes of demobilization. The excerpt below is from a 1920 speech. "There isn't anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been draughts upon the dangerous cup of barbarity, and men have wandered far from safe paths, but the human procession still marches in the right direction..." President Warren G. Harding Based on this excerpt what was one of Harding's goals?
Returning to life as it was before World War I
Benchmark 2.1: Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. The map below represents the presidential election of 1860. Which cause of the Civil War does this map illustrate?
Sectionalism
SS.912.A.3.8 Examine 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). Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following list of services is from a Progressive Era reform effort. Alleviate poverty Daycare • Education • Healthcare Based on the services listed, what is the MOST accurate title for this table?
Settlement House
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 2.5 - Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups. What is one effect of the Jim Crow laws?
Southern African Americans experienced limited access to education
SS.912.A.3.10 Review different economic and philosophic ideologies. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. In the late 19th century the concept of Social Darwinism was used as a justification for which of the following?
Success of big business and industrialists
SS.912.A.3.11 Analyze the impact of political machines in United States cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following cartoon is from the late nineteenth century. Caption states: Boss Tweed. "As long as I county the Votes, what are you going to do about it?" From this cartoon what conclusion can be made about elections?
Tammany Hall is influential
SS.912.A.3.8 Examine 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). Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following graphic organizer is from the turn of the nineteenth century. Rapid Urbanization + Limited Space = ? Which of the following BEST completes the urbanization graphic organizer?
Tenement housing
SS.912.A.3.9 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following graph pertains to late 19th century labor union membership. What can BEST be concluded about union membership in the late 19th century?
The Haymarket Riot impacted membership in the Knights of Labor.
Benchmark 4.5: Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I. 4.10: Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the United States to support the League of Nations. Below is a political cartoon from 1920. Based on the political cartoon, why did the League of Nations fail to prevent World War II?
The League did not have the power to prevent international conflicts.
SS.912.A.5.7: Examine the freedom movements that advocated civil rights for African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women. The photograph below was taken at the 1920 Republican convention. What conclusion can be drawn from this photograph?
The Republican Party did not support ratification of the 19th amendment.
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 2.7 - Review the Native American experience. The following is a 1910 advertisement. What conclusion about U.S. government policy is can be made from this advertisement?
The U.S. government encouraged western migration.
Benchmark SS.912.A. 6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Also assesses SS.912.A.6.3, SS.912.A.6.4, SS.912.A.6.5, SS.912.A.6.6, SS.912.A.6.7, SS.912.A.6.8, SS.912.A.6.9, and SS.912.A.6.15. Below is an excerpt from the Treaty of Versailles, 1919. "The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied or Associated Power against Germany by such aggression by land, by sea and from the air, and in general all damage as defined in Annex l hereto." Article 232 How did this provision contribute to the rise of the Nazi Party?
The Weimar Republic faced an economic collapse.
Benchmark 4.1: Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism. 4.2: Explain the motives of the United States' acquisition of the territories. The chart below reflects American economic activity during the late 19th century. Which motivation for imperialism is supported by the information contained in the chart?
The desire to acquire new markets
SS.912.A.3.3 Compare the First and Second Industrial Revolutions in the United States. Assessed by SS.912.A.3.2. The following diagram represents a business practice. Which of the following statements is an accurate description about the diagram.
The diagram represents a practice from the Second Industrial Revolution.
Benchmark SS.912.A.6.1: Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world. Benchmark SS.912.A.6.6: Analyze the use of atomic weapons during World War II and the aftermath of the bombings. This is an August, 1945 political cartoon With which statement would the cartoonist agree?
The threat of dropping an atomic bomb can be an effective deterrent to future war.
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 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. The following legislation is from the mid-19th century. "...citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding." Why did Congress feel compelled to pass this legislation?
To prevent Southern governments from enforcing black codes
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. Benchmark 2.2 - Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction The excerpt below is from a March 1865 speech. "...With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." March 1865 What action demonstrates Congress' opposition to the vision for Reconstruction stated in the excerpt?
Wade-Davis Bill
Benchmark 3.1 - Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. 3.6 - Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society. Which of the following represents the growing divide between the agrarian and urban electorate?
the emergence of Farmers' Alliances
Benchmark 2.1 - Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. 2.5 - Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups. The following is an excerpt from an 1867 document. "... Such measures will be taken as will inform all Freedmen entitled to be registered, of the necessity for, and the time and place of registration, and of the time and place of voting. They will also be instructed that, as they will not be allowed to suffer from the honest exercise of the right of suffrage, they should disregard all threats or undue influence tending to prevent or restrain the same..." Circular #9, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands May 1st, 1867 How did southern communities violate the rights guaranteed in this document?
the establishment of poll taxes and literacy tests
Complexity: H The excerpt below is from the "Ten Point Program" of the Black Panther Party. "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation." What was the Black Panther Party reacting against in this excerpt?
unemployment, police brutality, and centuries of racial injustice
