NAME:
Social Studies Midterm Review Sheet
Ms. Pari
8R
Exam Dates: Jan 11 (Essay) and Jan 14 (mult choice). Complete this entire sheet by _Jan 7, 2013
To prepare for this very important exam, please write as much detail as possible when you
identify, describe or define these words. Use your textbook, notes, homework, handouts, etc. Write
on loose leaf to expand your thoughts. Save this for use for final exam. Exam counts as 2 test
grades in the second marking period.
1. What led to the rise
of Big Business?
1b- Define capitalism
2. Define laissez-faire
3. Define free
enterprise system
4. Why were
corporations
allowed to grow and
eliminate competition?
5. What were some
methods industrialists
used to eliminate
competition?
5b. Who were some
famous industrialists?
6. What were
monopolies?
7. What was the
government’s
response to big
business?
8. Interstate
Commerce Act
9. How did labor
unions help workers?
10. What methods did
workers use against
employers?
11. What problems
were associated with
urbanization?
12. How did child
labor laws affect adult
workers?
13. What caused a rise
in immigration to the
U.S.?
13b.What was the
impact of immigration
on the nation?
14. What happened to
immigrants once they
arrived at Ellis Island?
15. What were ethnic
ghettos/ ethnic
neighborhoods?
15b.Why did
immigrants settle
there?
16. What was the
purpose of the
Homestead Act?
17. Which groups did
the Populist Party
help?
18. Why were third
parties like the
Populist Party created?
19. What did the
Progressive Party want
to change/ reform?
20. What did
muckrakers do to
inform people about
problems?
21. What was
Theodore Roosevelt’s
position on good trusts
vs. bad trusts?
22. Was the 18th
amendment
successful? Explain
23. Define 19th
amendment
24. Define suffrage
FOREIGN POLICY TERMS: (list the reasons and impact of #25-29)
25. imperialism
26. isolationism
27. neutrality
28. expansionism
29. Big Stick Policy
30. Spanish
American Warcauses
31. Spanish
American Wareffects
32. yellow
journalism
33. Describe trench
warfare in World
War I?
34. World War I causes
35. World War I effects
36. What is
rationing?
37. What was the
role of conservation
or rationing during
WWI?
38. What are
immigration quotas
or restrictions?
Why?
39. What changes
occurred for women
during and after
WWI?
40. What is the
importance of third
parties?
41. What was the
Roosevelt Corollary
to the Monroe
Doctrine?
42. What is a
primary source?
43. What is the
significance of the
Triangle Factory
Fire?
44. How did the use
of the assembly line
impact the
economy?
45. Why did we
want the Panama
Canal?
Possible essay topics – You need to prepare for both topics. Essay will be my choice
of one of these. Prepare an outline for each essay topic.
1-Reform movements or
2- Turning points in history