EXAM INFO
Wednesday Jan 20, 7:20 am
Main test rooms:
Per 1- room 285 Kane
Per 8 – room
H US Midterm Review
Team Quizzo
Two wage opportunities included
Do not shout out answers
Scoring – the honors system
Closed notes, fast paced, post over weekend
When we go over answers, let’s talk about them a bit and
answer the age old question “why is this important?”
Some things are more specific than others
Some things not in game or talked about are still testable
More review, less game
Study over the weekend-stagger and vary your methods!
Round 1
1. Owner of
Standard Oil Company, of significant
interest to Ida Tarbell
2. Foreign policy of Taft in the Caribbean
3.A telegram sent from the Germans to the
Mexicans proposing an alliance during WWI
4. Where Nazi leaders were charged with “crimes
against humanity”
5. FDR’s program to solve the great depression
6. WWI veterans in Washington DC in 1932
seeking their payments for service
7. One of two very important battles from July
1863
8. Opposed to spread of slavery into new territories
9.people who smuggled alcohol illegally during prohibition
10. One of the writers of the 1920s, wrote The Great Gatsby
11. Famous British ship sunk by German U-boat in 1915, American
passengers were also killed
12. Term used to describe the style of sensational newspaper writing
and image creation during the Spanish American War
13. Teddy Roosevelt’s idea of fairness between labor and
management
14. Idea promoted by Stephen Douglass that people in a given
territory (such as Kansas-Nebraska) could determine status of
slavery
15. The splitting up of families and other effects of slavery on
families were vividly portrayed in this novel
16. Phrasing used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Schenk V. U.S.
Case to explain why free speech is limited during times of war
Round 1
1.
John D. Rockefeller
2.
Dollar Diplomacy
3.
Zimmerman Note
4.
Nuremberg Trials
5.
New Deal
6.
Bonus Army
7.
Gettysburg, Vicksburg
8.
Free Soil party (“free soilers”)
9.
bootleggers
10
F. Scott Fitzgerald
11
The Lusitania
12. Yellow journalism
13. Square Deal
14. Popular sovereignty
15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
16. “clear and present danger”
I’ll also accept “can’t yell fire in a
crowded theater”
Round 2
1.
Nickname for progressive reformers who used
graphic imagery to expose conditions needed for
change
2.
Teddy Roosevelt’s volunteer regiment that charged
San Juan Hill
3.
Added interpretation to the Monroe Doctrine that
claimed US right to intervene in the Western
Hemisphere
4.
Industrial philosophy used to justify laissez-faire
capitalism
5.
New Deal program that hired young men aged 18-25
for a variety of construction and restoration projects
6.
Term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald to describe the
1920s
7.
This state was the first to secede
8. re-elected in 1916 and promised to keep us out of WWI
9.An allied turning point in Belgium, winter 1944-1945, defending
the German offensive
10. “Trial of the century” about teaching Evolution, 1925
11. Two famous Italian anarchists who were charged and convicted
for murder
12. Where the majority of “new” immigrants came from by 1900
13. New Deal program aimed at assisting people in their old age,
insuring the unemployment, and relieving the burdens of
widows and fatherless children.
14. Chief Justice Taney ruled in 1857 that this man was not a
citizen and therefore had no right to sue. This decision also
declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional.
Rnd 2
1.
Muckrakers
2.
Rough Riders
3.
Roosevelt Corollary
4.
Social Darwinism
5.
Civilian Conservation Corps
6.
The Jazz Age
7.
South Carolina
8.
Woodrow Wilson
9.
Battle of the Bulge
10. Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)
11. Sacco and Vanzetti
12. Southern and Eastern Europe
13. Social Security Act
14. Dred Scott
Round 3
1. TR’s Big Stick Diplomacy included the construction of
a canal here
2. $2 billion project for the development and building of
the Atomic Bomb
3. slang term (mocking a president) used for makeshift
communities of homeless unemployed people during
the early days of the Great Depression
4. laws that were designed to maintain racial segregation
in the south in the years following the Civil War
5. the first “talkie” -movie with sound, 1927
6. this amendment gave women the right to vote
7. this amendment ended slavery
8. foreign policy strategy used at Munich in 1938, later
criticized by Churchill
9. the Jungle led directly to passage of this_______
10.The Teapot Dome scandal occurred during his presidency
11. Wilson’s plan for resolving the territorial disputes that led
to WWI as well as his vision of lasting peace to prevent
future wars
12. This notorious nativist group resurged in popularity during
the 1920s, mostly in response to European immigrants
13. aka “the draft” - provided manpower for US entry into
WWI in 1917
14. Name two of the four slave states that remained in the
Union during the Civil War
Round 3
1.
Panama
2.
Manhattan Project
3.
Hoovervilles
4.
Jim Crow Laws
5.
The Jazz Singer
6.
19th Amendment
7.
13th amendment
Rnd 3
8.
appeasement
9.
Meat Inspection Act (passed the same day as the Pure
Food and Drug Act)
10. Harding
11 14 points
12. Ku Klux Klan
13. Selective Service Act
14. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
Round 4
1. term used to describe TR and Taft for going after monopolies
2. Activist in the 1920s who promoted black nationalism and
“back-to-Africa”
3. “rags to riches” captain of the steel industry, promoter of
“gospel of wealth”
4. Suffragist who took over NAWSA leadership after Susan B.
Anthony
5. FDR’s weekly radio broadcasts which were intended to reassure Americans during the GD
6. New Deal program designed to regulate the stock market and
prevent fraudulent practices
7. Where Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation specifically
freed slaves __________________
8. US citizens of Japanese ancestry were sent to these kind
of camps during WWII
9. Tragedy in 1911 which killed 146 garment workers
10. the “three Rs” that the New Deal programs sought to
address
11. in 1902, TR resolved a strike involving these kind of
laborers
12. Famous 1938 Halloween radio mass hysteria directed
by Orson Welles
13. What happened on October 29, 1929 (“Black
Tuesday”)
14. This is the bloodiest single-day battle in all of US
history
Round 4
1.
Trust-busting
2.
Marcus Garvey
3.
Andrew Carnegie
4.
Carrie Chapman Catt
5.
Fireside Chats
6.
SEC (Securities Exchange Commission)
7.
In all states in rebellion (the Confederacy)
8.
internment/relocation
9. Triangle-Shirtwaist Fire
10 relief, recovery, reform
11. Coal miners
12. War of the Worlds
13. Stock market crash
14. Antietam
1.
Supreme Allied Commander who gave the go-ahead for D-Day in 1944
2.
Term used to describe the group of writers who were disillusioned after
WWI
3.
Early Civil Rights reformer who founded the Tuskegee Institute and
pushed for a gradual approach
4.
During both World Wars, US citizens were encouraged to grow their
own produce on these
5.
Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party “Bull Moose candidate in this
election
6.
Wording used in Plessy v. Ferguson to uphold segregation in public
facilities
7.
Abolition’s “Golden Trumpet” – he even refused to wear any clothing
made of cotton
8. Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown from this pacific chain of islands
9. New Deal program created to insure bank deposits
10. Most famous Harlem Renaissance writer, asked what happens to “a
dream defered”
11. Alfred T. Mahan’s concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that
countries should build up their ___________ in order to have greater
worldwide impact
12. Its ultimate failure as a peacekeeping body led eventually to WWII.
Though the US created it, we did not join
13. Largest and most ambitious New Deal program that employed millions
of people to carry out construction projects and also employed many
musicians, artists, and writers
14. Wrote “ A Century of Dishonor” to highlight the history of our
government’s policy of deception toward the Native Americans
Rnd 5
1.
Dwight Eisenhower
2.
Lost Generation
3.
Booker T. Washington
4.
Victory gardens
5.
1912
6.
“separate but equal”
7.
Wendell Phillips
8. Hawaii
9. FDIC
10.Langston Hughes
11.Naval (navy)
12.League of Nations
13.WPA
14.Helen Hunt Jackson
End of part I
 Add up total point so far
 Wage
 Part I bonus question category: national landmarks
This is considered one of the earliest
of these --
Part II -- Which president (some may
be used twice)
1. “Make the World Safe for Democracy”
2. “Return to Normalcy”
3.“The Only thing we have to fear is fear itself ”
4. 1924 campaign – “keep cool with ______”
5. “arsenal of democracy”
6. Potsdam conference
Part II -- Which president (some may
be used twice)
7. Busted more trusts than TR
8. continued to give speech after being shot
9. believed in volunteerism to respond to GD
10. incapacitated by stroke during his final days
11.Promised “malice toward none and charity to
all” at his second inauguration
12.Was impeached but not removed from office
and finished out his term in 1869
1. Wilson
2. Harding
3. FDR
4. Coolidge
5. FDR
7. Taft
6. Truman
8. TR
9. Hoover
10. Wilson
11. Lincoln
12. Johnson
Picture Round
If you are studying at home, see me Tuesday for answers you
may not know or with any questions you have
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“He who build a factory builds a temple, he who works there
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End of Part II
Final Overall Question
Add up total points from part II
Add to total points from part I
Wage from total so far
Category: Forgotten History
What is this showing?
And the winner is…