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Due Date: 3/3 (A) 3/4 (B)
United States History—March Monthly Assessment Standards CHALLENGE!
We have a monthly assessment coming up and YOU need to be sure you are ready for it! Below, you will find all of the
standards that should be on this next test. With the standards, there is a graphic or question that breaks it down. If you
know all of these then your test score will be phenomenal!
Completion of ALL of these standards can earn you UP TO 50 POINTS. Plagiarism in any form will be a DOUBLE
ZERO. Full sentences only!
1. 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.
“Muckrakers”
Theodore Roosevelt:
Women’s Christian Temperance Union:
National Woman’s Suffrage Association/National Women’s
Party:
2. SS.912.A.4.1 Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism. SS.912.A.4.2 Explain the motives of the
United States acquisition of the territories.
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What were three of the major arguments for United States imperialism? Explain.
Argument #1 =
Argument #2 =
Argument #3 =
3. SS.912.A.4.3 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish American War.
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Explain what yellow journalism is and its role in the Spanish American War.
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Why should we “remember the Maine”?
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Who were the Rough Riders?
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Briefly compare/contrast the fighting in Cuba with the fighting in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
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How was Cuba treated by the United States following the war?
4. SS.912.A.4.7 Examine the impact of airplanes, battleships, new weaponry and chemical warfare in creating new war
strategies (trench warfare, convoys).
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How did tanks, machine guns, and mustard gas impact the effectiveness and outcome in trench warfare?
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How did convoys improve travel for the United States Navy and merchant ships across the Atlantic?
5. SS.912.A.5.2 Explain the causes of the public reaction (Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the
Red Scare.
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How did people react to the Red Scare in society?
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Why do you think they reacted this way?
6. SS.912.A.5.5 Describe efforts by the United States and other world powers to avoid future wars.
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What is isolationism?
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What were two ways in which the United States showed signs of isolationism after WWI?
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How did the Dawes Plan, the Washington Conference, the Kellogg-Braid Pact and the London Naval Treaties
work to help ensure economic stability and peace in Europe following WWI?
7. 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.
How did the following events change society in the 1920s?
Hollywood
Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalist movement
Prohibition
8. SS.912.A.5.11 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
What caused Great Depression?
How did the Great Depression
become a national problem?
How did the Great Depression affect
Americans?
9. SS.912.A.5.10 Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, and
other minorities.
10. SS.912.A.5.12 Examine key events and people in Florida history as they relate to United States history (1920s).
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Research and explain AT LEAST TWO of these events: Rosewood, land boom, impact of climate and natural
disasters on the end of the land boon, invention of modern air conditioning 
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Research and explain the significance of AT LEAST TWO of these people: Alfred DuPont, Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson 
11. SS.912.A.6.1 Examine causes, course, and consequences of World War II on the United States and the world.
Causes of U.S. entering WWII
Ways the U.S. was involved in WWII
Ho w was the U.S. affected:
-Society
-Economy
-Politics
12. SS.912.A.6.2 Describe the United States response in the early years of World War II.
How was the U.S. involved in the war without actually fighting?
o Neutrality Acts
o
Cash-and-Carry
o
Lend-Lease Acts
The
Holocaust
13. SS.912.A.6.3 Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups.
Who was persecuted?
Why were they targeted?
14. SS.912.A.6.4 Examine efforts to expand or contract rights for various populations during World War II.
Did the US try to expand or contract the rights of each of the following during WWII? Explain your answer.
African Americans
German Americans
Japanese Americans
Native Americans
Hispanic Americans
Italian Americans
15. SS.912.A.6.5 Explain the impact of World War II on domestic government policy.
How did WWII impact U.S. domestic policies?
o rationing
o
national security
o
increased job opportunities (African Americans, women, Jews and other refugees)
16. SS.912.A.6.6 Analyze the use of atomic weapons during World War II and the aftermath of the bombings.
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Do you think that the purpose of the use of atomic bombs on Japan was worth the aftermath? Explain your
position with details from this event.
17. SS.912.A.6.7 Describe the attempts to promote international justice through the Nuremberg Trials.
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Who did the Nuremberg Trials seek to bring justice upon?
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How do you think that this served as an “international” example of justice to the world?
18. SS.912.A.6.8 Analyze the effects of the Red Scare on domestic United States policy.
How did the Red Scare influence change in U.S. government policy?
Truman’s Loyalty Review Program
House Un-American Committee
McCarthyism (Senator Joseph
McCarthy)
McCarran Act
19. SS.912.A.6.9 Describe the rationale for the formation of the United Nations, including the contribution of Mary McLeod
Bethune.
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Why was the United Nations formed following WWII?
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How did Mary McLeod Bethune contribute to the creation of the United Nations?