End of the first 9 weeks!

Hi everyone! I can't believe the end of the first nine weeks is almost here. All students will be required to take the Social Studies 9 week test. I think this is a good practice for them to prepare for high school and college. It requires them to retain and recall information from the entire 9 weeks. There will be 100 questions on the test. General classes will have all multiple choice questions. My AP class will have a varied format. Most students complain about taking the test, but the usually end up doing better on it than any other test for the grading period because they actually study!! What an idea, huh?? Anyway, I am going to post the study guide here for everyone to see. All students who have been keeping up with their journal properly should be able to answer the study guide using only their journals. But I am sure some students will need their books as well. I encourage all students to study at least 20 minutes each day over the long weekend. GOOD LUCK!
9 Weeks Test Study Guide
Mrs. Freeman, Team #2
Social Studies

**Study all notes, vocabulary, questions, homework, handouts, etc.

Mapping Skills Unit
• Be able to label all U.S. states
• Be able to label all 7 continents
• Be able to label the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean
• Be familiar with directions, N, S, E, W
• Vocabulary:
o May key
o Scale bar
o Compass rose
o Physical map
o Political map
o Equator
o Prime meridian
o Longitude
o Latitude
• Lines of _____________________________ run East to West, but they measure ______________________ and _______________ of the ______________________________.
• Lines of __________________________ run North to South, but they measure ______________________ and __________________________ of the ________________ ____________________.
• When writing longitude and latitude, __________________ always comes first.

Transportation Unit

• Why were people out west prior to the Transcontinental railroad being built?
• What pulled the first trains?
• Why did miners really need a railroad?
• Where did most of the land the government granted to RR companies come from?
• What did some cities do to encourage the RR to come to their town?
• What happened at Promontory Point, UT?
• What were the two companies that were commissioned to build the RR?
• Who drove in the Golden Spike?
• How do time zones and RR’s relate to each other?
• What industries were boosted by the development of the RR?
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• How did the RR boost the cattle industry?
• Where did longhorns come from?
• What did ranchers wear?
• What were some hazards of being a rancher?
• How does your life differ from that of a child who grew up in a Plains’ farming family?
• When and where was Henry Ford born?
• When was the 1st Model T introduced? How much did it cost?
• Where was/is Ford Motor Company headquartered?
• What companies emerged as competition for Henry Ford?
• What strategy did Henry Ford come up with that changed factories all over the world?
• How does an assembly line work?
• What were the first paved city streets paved with?
• How is asphalt better than any of the materials listed in the question above?
• When was the Brooklyn bridge completed?
• Where is Kitty Hawk?
• Why did the Wright brothers choose Kitty Hawk for their first flight?
• When did the first flight take place?
• Where were the Wright brothers actually from?
• When were planes first used as weapons? How were they made into weapons?
• What other industries were boosted by the automobile industry?
• How did the automobile change life for Americans?
• What were some of the nicknames given to the U.S. satellite Sputnik?
• Why did suburban families depend on cars?
• How did the helicopter change war during Vietnam?
• Vocabulary
• Transcontinental
• Subsidies
• Promontory Point, UT
• Longhorns
• Open range
• Brand
• Vaquero
• Red Baron
• Eddie Rickenbacker
• Henry Ford
• Detroit, MI
• Model T
• Model A
• Defaulted
• “Black Thursday”
• Sputnik
• Vanguard
• NASA
• Federal Highway Act

Westward Expansion Mini-Unit
• Vocabulary
o Pikes Peak
o Lode
o Ore
o Comstock Lode
o Boomtowns
o Vigilantes
o Ghost towns
o Boomers
o Sooners
o “boom”
o “bust”
o Nomadic
o Buffalo Bill
o Reservations
• What parts of the buffalo did the Native Americans use?
• Who was killing the buffalo during this time? Why?
• What was life like in a boomtown?
• What were women in the boomtowns doing?
• What is one good thing that came from a “bust”?
• What did the sooners do to the boomers that wasn’t very nice?
• What was the Homestead Act?
• What was the last territory opened up to homesteaders?


YOUR TEST IS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15TH!!

YOU NEED TO STUDYEVERYTHING YOU CAN TO PREPARE FOR YOU RTEST!! THERE WILL BE 100 QUESTIONS AND IT IS WORTH 20% OF YOUR GRADE!!! STUDY! STUDY!

Model A Pictures

TEST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!

The Transportation Test is tomorrow!! All students should be studying their notes, in-class handouts/activities, homework, etc.
Also, below is a list of things to study from that material...

What to study for my Transportation Test tomorrow!
All notes, all homework, all handouts…everything in my Social Studies notebook/journal.

• Why were people out west before trains?
• Why did miners need better/more transportation?
• Subsidies:
• How did some cities get RR’s to come to them?
• Promontory Point, UT; Leland Stanford
• What industries were boosted by RR’s?
• After miners who came west?
• Describe a Ranchers life, how was it hard?
• Open range; vaquero; longhorns
• What did ranchers wear?
• What was hard about being a plains farmer?
• 1st TCRR: when completed?
• 1st Model T: when, who, where, how much $?
• First streets?
• How did bridges change lives?
• First flight: when, where, who?
• Why was Kitty Hawk chosen for the first flight?
• When were planes first used in combat?
• Red Baron; Eddie Rickenbacker
• Street cars; trolley cars; subways: when & where
• What industries were boosted by the automobile industries?
• Black Thursday
• Who attacked Pearl Harbor? When?
• U-boats: who used them first? During what war?
• Tanks: who used them first? During what war?
• How did planes change from WWI to WWII?
• When and where was the first atomic bomb dropped? What was the name of the plan that dropped the atomic bomb?
• What was the Federal Highway act? Who was the President that enacted this?
• How did factories change their production during WWII?
• NASA; Sputnik; Vanguard
• Why did suburban families need cars?
• What was “Flopnik”?
• How did the helicopter help the war in Vietnam?