Social Studies First 9 Weeks Benchmark Study Guide
*Be familiar with key words from all chapters!!
Chapter 4
1. The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a
___________________________.
2. ___________________________ invented the railroad sleeping car.
3. ___________________________ invented the electric lightbulb.
4. ___________________________ invented the telephone.
5. The steel company owner who was a great philanthropist was
______________________________.
6. Railroad barons were created when the industry _____________________.
7. __________________________ pioneered the assembly line.
8. Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the
______________________ Riot.
9. The demand to have a regulated schedule caused the railroad companies to create
____________________ _____________________.
10. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, many people moved to the cities to take
_______________________ jobs.
Chapter 5
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It took immigrants ____________ days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Many immigrants lived in urban apartments called _______________________.
______________________________ invented moving pictures.
Most Asian immigrants went through the processing center on _____________
Island.
5. __________________________________ was a settlement house founded by
Jane Addams.
6. ______________________________ designed Central Park and several parks in
Boston.
7. People might _________________________ from their homeland in order to find
a better life in America.
8. To improve living conditions of the poor, _______________________ houses
were established.
9. Many middle-class families moved from the cities to the __________________.
10. To maintain their culture, immigrants with the same language and customs tended
to live in the same ________________________________.
11. _______________________________________ was the first law passed to limit
immigration.
12. What law required that immigrants be able to read or write in some language?
__________________________________
13. ____________________________ argued that schools should be more hands-on
and relate to the students’ interest.
14. People enjoyed cheering for the home team or local sports star while attending
__________________ sports.
15. Nativist feared that immigrants would take away their jobs or drive down
everyone’s wages by __________ _________ _______.
16. Overcrowding in the city caused sanitation and health problems, these problems
were (EASY or HARD) to solve?_________________________
17. The ________________________________ provided funds for land – grant
colleges.
Chapter 6
1. A ____________________ allows citizens to place a measure or an issue on the
ballot in a state election.
2. A ____________________ allows voters the opportunity to accept or reject
measures that the legislature enacted.
3. A ____________________allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials
from their jobs.
4. Who won the election of 1908?___________________________________
5. In 1912 the Bull Moose Party presidential candidate
was?____________________________
6. What was the job of the Political Boss?
7. Sixteenth Amendment –
8. Seventeenth Amendment –
9. Eighteenth Amendment –
10. Nineteenth Amendment –
11. ________________was the first state to allow women to vote.
12. Theodore Roosevelt promised the people a _____________________________ if
he was elected president in 1904.
13. Who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP)?_________________________________
14. What is a muckraker?
15. What is a Labor Union?
16. How many states are there in the continental United States? ______________