Progressivism
Review For Final
1
• A change
made for the
better is
known as
what?
2
• Because of major
reforms to working
hours for children,
name one reform that
occurred in education.
3
• This is a word meaning that a person is able to read
and write.
4
• To lessen corruption
in government, this
amendment to the
Constitution was
passed, requiring
Senators to be
elected directly by the
people instead of by
lawmakers.
5
Using the chart below and a little bit of math, by how much
did illiteracy rates decrease from 1870 – 1920?
#6
6
• In which areas of the
United States did
most immigrants
settle?
7
• How do monopolies
deal with businesses
that attempt to
compete with them?
The
Competition
8
• What is a synonym (another word) for a
city area?
9
• What is a synonym for a farming area?
10
• Why did many cities
grow in terms of
population in the late
1800’s and early
1900’s?
11
List two negative aspect of
urbanization in the U.S.
12
Hi, I owned an oil
monopoly in the early
1900’s! Who am I?
13
• Why was Teddy Roosevelt already a hero before he
became President of the United States?
14
• What other government positions did
Teddy Roosevelt have before he became
President of the United States?
President McKinley
15
• Immigrants that came to America in the late 1800’s
who were educated, spoke English, and were from
Western European countries were known as the
“_____ immigrants”
• Multiple Choice
– New
– Old
16
• Immigrants that came to
America in the early
1900’s who were not
educated, did not speak
English, and were from
Eastern European
countries were known as
the “_____ immigration”
• Multiple Choice
– New
– Old
17
• I am the man who
had a steel monopoly.
I gave a lot of the
money I made back to
the city of Pittsburgh
to make libraries,
theaters, and
museums.
18
• Hi, I’m Upton Sinclair,
I wrote a book on the
horrors of the
meatpacking industry.
What was the name
of my book?
19
In which state
did I do the
research for my
book?
20
• Why was Plessy vs. Ferguson an
important court case in the United States?
21
• Name for a journalist
who exposes the
corruption in any area
of society through
writing books or
articles about the
corruption.
22
I demanded equality for
all African Americans
at once!!!!!!
23
• Name for the term
used to describe a
business that controls
all means of
producing or selling a
product or service.
Carnegie and
Rockefeller both had
these in their
industries.
24
White people liked me more
than Du Bois b/c I did not
directly challenge their
domination
25
What is the policy Booker T.
Washington used in which he
advocated African Americans working
harder to earn acceptance by the
whites in the U.S.?
26
Reason why
Wilson was able
to win the 1912
election
27
WWI Review for
Final
28
What were the 4
MAIN causes of
WWI?
29
• What was Wilson’s successful campaign slogan in the
Election of 1916? “ He kept us ______ ___ _____”
30
• Name for the term in which 2 countries agree to come
to each other’s aid in times of need.
31
• Name of the following
alliance in WWI :
– Great Britain
– France
– Russia
32
• What was the primary
form of warfare in
WWI?
33
• Name for the infection that would occur in the
trenches due to soldiers not having fresh pairs of
socks.
34
• What event sparked the powder keg of Europe to start
WWI?
35
• Name of the following
alliance:
– Austria-Hungary
– Germany
– Ottoman Empire
36
• Most Americans
wanted to stay out of
the battles occurring
in Europe. What is
this policy known as
where a country does
not pick a side?
37
• What is information
used to sway people
to think or act in a
certain way?
• Example 
38
• What ship was sunk
by a German
submarine?
39
• What was the name
of the telegram sent
by Germany to
Mexico asking the
Mexicans to fight
America in return for
the lands Mexico lost
in the MexicanAmerican War.
40
• What was the name of the Treaty that was signed after
WWI?
41
• Name for the term used to describe a war in which a
country puts all of its resources towards the war effort.
42
• According to the treaty signed after WWI,
which country was held solely responsible
for the war?
26
43
• Someone who opposes
a war based on morals is
known as this:
44
• Name for the area in
between enemy
trenches.
45
Preparing for war
46
• This treaty punished Germany pretty harshly for
starting WWI and made them accept a War-Guilt
clause for starting the war.
47
• Name for a German submarine.
48
• This treaty ended Russian involvement in the
war. It came at about the same time that the
United States entered the war.
•
Hint: (Get your minds out of the gutter!)
49
How did the US pay for WWI?
50
• The term used to describe buying less or limiting the
use of a product in order to conserve that product is
known as ……..
51
• After signing the treaty ending WWI, the Germans
were forced to pay $33 billion to make up for damages
during the war. What are these payments known as?
52
• What 2 countries
never joined the
League of Nations?
53
• President Wilson came up with 14 ideas meant
to achieve a lasting peace in the world for years
to come. These were known as Wilson’s
____ _______
54
• What peacekeeping
organization did the
U.S. Senate reject
due to the belief that
America should stay
out of European
affairs?
55
• Name one military restriction that was placed
against Germany’s army after WWI.
56
• Hi, I am the man that
was arrested for
speaking out against
the war effort. I
should have just kept
my mouth shut.
57
ROARING 20’s
REVIEW FOR THE
FINAL
58
• What is the name of the pact that made war illegal?
59
• Another name for the
right to vote
60
• Besides the
information in this
poster, what other
reasons did men
give for not
wanting women to
vote?
61
• What was the amendment that gave women the right
to vote?
62
• Term used to describe
reducing or eliminating a
country’s weapons or
military
63
• What was the amendment that made drinking
alcoholic beverages illegal?
64
• This President forced
the police of Boston
back to work stating
that it was “illegal to
strike against the
safety of Americans”
65
• Programs set up by business owners which gave
workers higher wages and better working conditions to
discourage workers from joining unions.
66
• What is the term used
to describe the
illegalization of
alcohol
67
• Hi! I was the largest
producer of
automobiles in the
1920’s. I doubled my
workers salaries to
$5.00 but they had to
go through the
Americanization
program and speak
English.
68
• Location where the first automobile plant was created.
38.
69
The people in the U.S. were afraid of this
government system because the system went
against American values.
70
• I flew the first flight from New York to Paris across the
Atlantic Ocean
39.
71
Fear of strangers is known as this term:
72
The fear of communists in the U.S. was
known as this:
73
• Who is this sports icon from the 1920’s? What team
did he play most of his career for?
40.
74
This organization wanted a return to the
past, limits placed on immigration, and
discriminated against blacks, Jews, and
anyone that was not Protestant.
75
Term used to describe someone that
believes that all forms of government
should be abolished. (Sacco and Vanzetti
believed in this.)
76
• Theory of survival of
the fittest
77
• What were the raids led by Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer known as? What/who were they
trying to find?
78
Location where the Scopes trial occurred
43.
79
• What was the trial
involving the teaching
of evolution in public
schools?
80
• Hi, I’m the defense attorney who argued that the
theory of evolution should be allowed to be taught in
public schools. I was the man who defended John
Scopes during the Scopes Trial.
81
• Who was the
prosecutor in the
Scopes Trial who
argued that evolution
should NOT be taught
in public schools.
82
• This plan prevented war because the US provided
loans to Germany so that they could pay $ back to
Great Britain and France.
83
• Scandal in which a
former U.S. Navy oil
reserve in east-central
Wyoming was secretly
leased to Harry F.
Sinclair's oil company
by Secretary of the
Interior Albert B. Fall. It
became a symbol of
the governmental
scandals of the
Harding
administration.
84
• What was the largest
industry in America
during the 1920’s
85
• What were the illegal bars that were frequented during
the 1920’s known as?
86
• What method did
Americans use to pay
for all the new
products now offered
to them in the 1920’s?
87
Term used to describe preferring people
born in the USA to immigrants from other
countries
88
• What was the name of the movement of blacks from the
southern United States to areas in the northern United States?
51.
89
• What new music was brought from New Orleans to the
north in the 1920’s?
52.
90
• Hi, I am the guy that led the “Back to Africa”
movement. Basically I wanted all the blacks in
America to move back to Africa and form our own
country.
53.
91
This act limited the amount of immigrants
that could enter the United States during
the 1920’s
92
GREAT
DEPRESSION
REVIEW FOR
FINAL
93
• Location where the
stock market crash
occurred
55.
94
• Phrase used to
describe buying a
stock using borrowed
money from a broker.
Brokers in the 1920’s
expected investors to
pay this money back,
but after the stock
crash, that wasn’t
happening.
95
• Hi, I’m the President
who encouraged
people to work
themselves out of the
depression by
themselves.
• I also had towns and
newspapers
nicknamed after me
96
• My belief was that the
American people should
not rely on the
government for aid.
Instead they should pick
themselves up and work
harder. What was my
philosophy known as?
97
I made up a whole bunch
of government
programs to help solve
the Great Depression
by putting Americans
back to work, helping
farmers, the
unemployed and the
elderly. What were
these programs known
as?
98
Hi, we’re the guys that wanted our WWI bonus a
little earlier. We weren’t given this bonus and
were kicked out of Washington D.C.
99
• Hi, I’m the guy that
replaced Hoover. I
made up a program in
which the government
created jobs to help
spur the economy. I
also was the
president when the
U.S. entered WWII.
100
• A series of informal
radio addresses given
by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in the
1930s. He sought to
explain his policies to
the American public
and to calm fears
about the Great
Depression.
101
Which of the following candidates won the
election of 1932?
102
• 3 R’s of FDR’s
New Deal
program?
103
After coming to office, FDR closed these
institutions until they could prove that they could
function properly again. What were they?
104
• Controversy in which
FDR tried to pack the
Supreme Court with
judges that would
support his NEW
DEAL programs
105
• A long economic slump which is characterized by high
unemployment
106
• What did farmers do
as a result of low
prices?
107
This New Deal act provided farmers with
subsidies if they slaughtered their cattle
and destroyed their crops.
108
Someone who uses lies or half-truths to gain
attention or power. Huey P. Long and
Father Coughlin were considered these
types of people. Hitler was one of them as
well.
FDR will Ruin
this Country!!!
He stinks like
bad cheese.
109
- She’s smiling cuz her check is on
the way!
• Act passed by FDR
which gave the
elderly a weekly
check after they had
retired.
110
• Many people criticized FDR’s New Deal.
Why did business leaders criticize it?
111
• Nickname given to citizens of Okalahoma who left
their farms and headed to California
66.
112
• Nickname given to the Okalahoma area in the 1930’s
due to overproduction of crops.
113
REVIEW FOR FINAL
ON WWII
114
• What were the acts
called which
prohibited the United
States from giving aid
to any country at war?
It also prohibited US
citizens from riding a
ship from a country
that was at war.
115
• Peacetime military
draft which required
all men ages 21 – 30
to enlist for the US
army.
116
• Executive order that required all people, including American
citizens of Asian decent to be rounded up and taken to camps
away from the west coast. This was due to American fear of
the Japanese from the attack on Pearl Harbor
71.
117
What was the Court case that upheld Japanese
internment camps during WWII?
118
• This act allowed the
US to lend or lease
weapons or
battleships to any
country vital to United
States defense. This
did not include any
members of the Axis
powers.
119
• Name of the battle in which the Germans attacked
the USSR and the Germans were forced to retreat
due to the Russian winter.
120
What is the Alliance, and who were the 3
leaders of these countries?
• Japan
• Italy
• Germany
121
From left to right below, who were the 3
Allied leaders during WWII?
122
• Event that brought the United States into WWII. It was
a “day which will live in infamy!”
73.
123
• Nickname for the
German style of
fighting during WWII.
It involved fast
moving armies, tanks,
and planes, and in
English, the name
literally means
“lightning war”
124
• Code name for the
Allied invasion of the
shores of Normandy,
France. It was a
huge success in
gaining an Allied
foothold in Western
Europe.
125
• Name for the man
that led the Allied
invasion of
Normandy, France.
126
Fighting the Japanese
in WWII was:
a) Extremely easy
b) Extremely bloody
c) Extremely boring
127
• Name of the A-bomb
dropped on Hiroshima
128
How did the US pay for WWII?
129
• Hi, I’m the guy that
replaced FDR at the
end of WWII, I had to
make an “explosive”
decision early on in
my administration.
Who am I?
130
List one negative aspect of dropping the
atomic bomb on Japan.
131
• Name of the A-bomb
that was dropped
upon Nagasaki
132
List one positive aspect of dropping the
bomb on Japan.
133
• What similar
situations did
minorities such as
Hispanics and African
Americans have while
fighting in WWII?
134
• At the Munich Conference the leaders of GB and
France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland if he
promised to stop all territorial gains in Europe.
What is this policy, of making an aggressor happy,
known as?
135
This U.S. athlete embarrassed Hitler at the
1936 Olympics in Germany proving that a
black man could defeat Hitler’s perfect
Aryan race.
136
• When men left for
war, who took over
many of their jobs in
the factories?
137
• What battle in the pacific did this occur at?
138
This battle saw the first use of
Kamikaze pilots
139
• This was the name of
Germany’s air force
140
Event in which American and Filipino
soldiers were forced by gunpoint to march
65 miles
141
• The reason that the League of Nations failed as
a peacekeeping force is because they lacked
this…..
142
• Location of Pearl Harbor
81.
143
• What is the nickname
of this woman?
82.
144
• Because so many people were able to gain jobs due
to the weapons, uniforms, and artillery needed for war,
it helped the US to end what major event in US
history.
145
• Secret project held in Los Alamos, New Mexico in
which leading scientists developed the first nuclear
weapon.
84.
146
• Name for the U.S strategy of conquering one Pacific
island at a time such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa in
order to get closer so that airstrikes of Japan would be
possible
147
COLD WAR
REVIEW
148
The A-bomb was used
on this country to
save American lives,
end the war quickly,
and destroy the war
making capabilities of
this country.
149
To remove
weapons or
decrease the
number of troops
in the military
150
Economic
system based
upon the equal
distribution of
wealth. All
businesses
and capital are
owned and
controlled by
the
government.
151
• Who was President
during most of the
50’s?
• Vice President?
152
Economic
system based
upon profit
153
• What President
changed the look of
the military by
reducing the number
of soldiers and
increasing the
number of bombs and
planes?
154
• What plan provided aid in the form of money and
supplies to W. Europe to stop the spread of
communism?
95.
155
- Name for the military
defense alliance
between noncommunist countries
96.
156
• Name for the alliance that was formed in response
to NATO. It included many communist countries.
157
• Name for the policy
set forward by
President Truman in
which he stated that it
was the responsibility
of the United States
to prevent the spread
of communism.
158
• Korea was divided
after WWII due to the
fact that the country
that controlled it lost
WWII to the Allies.
What country is this?
159
• On what line was
Korea divided after
WWII?
160
• What was the official
policy the US had in
preventing the spread
of communism?
Communism
161
• This war began when
the Northern,
communist side of
this country invaded
the Southern,
democratic side.
162
Before
• At the end of the
Korean War, how
much had the borders
of communism and
democracy changed
in the country?
After
• Hint 
163
163
• What major Asian
nation became
communist after
WWII?
164
• Hi, I’m the guy that got
fired by Truman because
I wanted to open up a
new front in the Korean
War and attack China.
Earlier in my career I was
responsible for fighting
the Japanese in the
Pacific Theater. Even
earlier in my career I tear
gassed the Bonus Army.
165
• Hi, I make a beeping
sound and float
around the Earth. I
was the first satellite
to be sent into space
166
• When the Soviet
union sent a satellite
into space, what
subjects did the U.S.
believe needed to be
stressed more in
public schools?
167