9 Week Exams!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope that you all enjoyed the extended break from school! I wanted to remind everyone that we have a 9 week exam on Thursday of this week. Here are a few reminders of what you need to know:
9 Week Test Study Guide
Mrs. Freeman, Team #2
Social Studies
TEST IS THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

Inventors & Immigrants
• How do inventions and technology differ from when your parents were your age?
• Samuel Morse
• Telegraph
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Granville Woods
• Cyrus Field
• What was the first thing transmitted via telephone?
• What was Thomas Edison’s first invention?
• What was Woolworths?
• What was Thomas Edison’s nickname?
• George Eastman
• John Thurman
• Jan E. Matzeliger
• Elijah McCoy
• George Westinghouse
• Henry Ford
• What was so unique about the Sears & Roebuck catalog when it was first published?
• Corporation
• Trust
• Monopoly
• Philanthropy
• Sweatshop
• What were some of the hazards of working in a sweatshop?
• Emigrate
• Ethnic group
• Steerage
• Assimilate
• Statue of Liberty
• Emma Lazarus
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• Nativist
• Who gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty?
• Where would immigrants from Europe most likely enter the U.S.?
• Where would immigrants from China most likely enter the U.S.?
• What was so difficult about the trip to America if you were an immigrant (name at least 3 things).
• Tenement
• Slum
• Suburb
• Settlement house
• The Gilded Age
• What were new forms of city transportation emerging during this time?
• Make sure you can read a line graph and know LUKCAS!
• Land grant college
• Realism
• Booker T. Washington
• What is a spectator sport? Give 2 examples.
Progressivism
• What is progressivism? What is the root word for Progressivism?
• Political machine
• Political boss
• Patronage
• Muckraker
• 17th Amendment
• Who was Boss Tweed? Where was he from?
• Thomas Nast
• What happened in Galveston, TX in 1900? How did they rebuild their city?
• Who were the first 2 presidents who wanted to change the spoils system?
• When did the corruption among politics begin (that we know of from our political cartoons)?
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• Suffragist
• Prohibition
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
• Wyoming
• 19th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• Make sure you can use TACOS to analyze a political cartoon
• Square deal
• Conservation
• 16th Amendment
• Who started the Bull Moose Party and how?
• Was Roosevelt first elected as a President or Vice President? Explain.
Overseas Expansion
• Who really wanted to purchase Alaska? What did the people of the U.S. say about that?
• Who did we purchase Alaska from and for how much?
• Annexation
• Midway
• Pearl Harbor
• What are the three “-isms” and what do they mean?
• Who was Matthew Perry and what was his mission?
• What did Alfred Thayer Mahan say the US needed?
• What did the U.S. do in Hawaii?
• What did we teach the Hawaiians to grow?
• How did we eventually get Pearl Harbor?
• What did the U.S. do in Samoa?
• Do you agree or disagree with what we did in Hawaii and Samoa? Why or why not?


Study hard and GOOD LUCK!!