7th Grade Social Studies - 2nd Semester Study Guide
Industrialization and Immigration in the U.S.
1. What is a legal body that is created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same
industry?
2. Who made his fortune in the oil refining business?
3. What is a company that wiped out its competitors and controlled an industry?
4. Who made his fortune in the steel business?
5. What is a vocabulary word for a person who gives large sums of money to charities?
6. In what type of business do investors own part of the company by purchasing shares of
stock?
7. What is a term used for a person who became wealthy through dishonest means, such as
bribery and cheating, during the Gilded Age?
8. Some of the most dangerous work in building the railroad through the Rocky Mountains
was performed by what type of people?
9. What is a railroad that crosses an entire continent called?
10. Who was the leader of the Pullman Strike whom the government put in jail?
11. What is a small business where workers, often children, worked long hours in poor
conditions and for very low pay called?
12. How did Andrew Carnegie gain control of his successful business?
13. How was the labor union movement affected by the Haymarket affair?
14. Why did Mark Twain and Charles Warner name the late 1800s the Gilded Age?
15. How do monopolies harm the consumer?
16. Why was the Bessemer steel process important for the nation's economic growth?
17. How did John D. Rockefeller's methods differ from Andrew Carnegie's?
18. Describe standard time (how it came about, its effects, etc.).
19. How did the transcontinental railroad affect Native Americans?
20. What is the economic system in which all members of society own all business and share in
the work and profits equally called?
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21. What are PUSH factors of migration?
22. What are PULL factors of migration?
23. Name one of the negative effects of immigration on American Society.
24. Name one true about the relationship between immigrants and industrialization.
25. Where did most immigrants live when they came to America?
The Progressive Era
26. Which amendment to the Constitution gave women full voting rights?
27. Name one founder of Hull House in Chicago.
28. Who founded the Henry Street Settlement to help poor immigrants in New York City?
29. Who were the muckrakers?
30. Why did the prohibitionist Carry Nation smash saloons with a hatchet?
31. What established the government’s right to tax citizens’ income?
32. What did the Federal Reserve Act do?
33. Why did President Wilson support the passage of the 19th Amendment?
34. What inspired President Roosevelt to support the Meat Inspection Act?
35. How did Roosevelt's use of the Sherman Antitrust Act affect Standard Oil?
36. What expanded democracy by giving the people of each state the right to directly elect
their U.S. senators?
37. Which amendment made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
illegal?
38. What third-party candidate split the Republican Party in 1912 and prevented President
Taft from being reelected?
39. What did Theodore Roosevelt mean by a "square deal"?
40. Roosevelt's support and popularity as president allowed this man to win the presidency in
the 1908 election.
Becoming a World Power
41. Where was the first major battle of the Spanish-American War?
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42. What role did the news media have in causing the Spanish-American War?
43. Why did American planters remove Queen Liliuokalani from power?
44. What did the Roosevelt Corollary and the Monroe Doctrine allow?
45. What did Filipinos believe when they fought alongside American soldiers?
46. How did John Hay respond to Japanese and European expansion of their spheres of
influence in China?
47. What did Commodore Matthew Perry's voyages to Japan accomplish?
48. Describe the Anti-Imperialist League.
49. Describe Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
50. Why did U.S. leaders require Cuba to sign the Platt Amendment?
51. What statement sums up Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy?
52. Why was José Martí a symbol of liberty throughout Latin America?
53. What led to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
54. Why did Theodore Roosevelt help stage a revolt against Colombia?
55. What territory did Americans refer to as "Seward's Icebox"?
56. What made Commodore George Dewey so popular in 1898?
World War I
57. Who was the commander of American troops in Europe in World War I?
58. Describe the convoy system, which was used for the first time during World War I.
59. What was the AEF?
60. What is an agreement to end all fighting in a war called?
61. What were the Fourteen Points?
62. What international organization was formed after the war to settle future disputes
peacefully?
63. What were the Palmer raids?
64. What rivalry caused tensions that eventually led to World War I?
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65. Which three German actions angered Americans?
66. What was the turning point of the war?
67. Why did the government sell war bonds during the war?
68. The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities is called
69. The treaty that brought World War I to a close was
70. How did U.S. citizens help with the war effort at home?
71. The tanks, poison gas, and other technology that was used for the first time in World War I
are evidence of which underlying cause of the war?
72. Why did the Zimmermann telegram anger Americans?
73. What made World War I more deadly?
74. What is an example of nationalism as an underlying cause of World War I?
75. What was NOT one of President Wilson's Fourteen Points?
The Great Depression
In the first section, you will be interpreting graphs (multiple choice).
In the second section, you will need to know the definitions to the following words:
deficit spending
New Deal
Second New Deal
Securities and Exchange Commission
Dust Bowl
(SEC)
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Herbert Hoover
sit-down strike
Bonus Army
Liberal
76. What region was the site of the Dust Bowl?
77. What was a main cause of World War II?
78. Which of the following New Deal programs still provides retirement and healthcare
benefits to millions of Americans today?
79. Why was radio popular in the 1930s?
80. How did World War II help end the Great Depression?
81. Why was the Great Depression considered one of the worst economic crisis
in the nation's history?
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Geography
82. Which ocean did the European immigrants cross to get to America?
83. What ocean did the Asian immigrants cross to get to America?
84. What geographical advantage did Britain have during World War I?
85. What U.S. mountain range did the railroads have to travel over in order to reach the
west coast from the Midwest?
Note: there are 100 multiple choice questions on your final.
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