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U.S. History STAAR Review (Gilded Age-WWII)

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  • Place these WWI events in chronological order: Zimmerman Telegram sent, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Armistice, Battle of Argon Forest
    assas. of Ferdinand, Zimmerman Telegram, Argon Forest, Armistice
  • What did the 16th Amendment do?
    Income tax
  • What did the 19th Amendment do?
    gave women the right to vote
  • What were muckrakers?
    Investigative journalists who exposed the ills in society as a result of industrialization and the Gilded Age.
  • What did the 20th Amendment do?
    Changes inauguration day to January 20th
  • What event led to the United States' entry into WWII?
    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • The Great Depression had many underlying causes besides the Stock Market Crash...name 3 of those underlying causes
    answer
  • In which historical era did these legislative events occur: TVA, NRA, court packing, Social Security Act, FDIC
    Great Depression/New Deal
  • How did the conditions in the Interwar Period (1919-1939) lead to the rise of extremism around the world?
    answer
  • Briefly summarize the Roaring 20s
    answer
  • What did the 22nd Amendment do?
    limits a president to two terms
  • What did the 17th Amendment do?
    Direct election of senators
  • Describe Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy (don't just tell me the saying...explain what it meant)
    Overwhelming military power to assert supremacy in the region
  • What event led to the United States entry into WWI?
    Zimmerman Telegram
  • What were the MAIN causes of WWI?
    answer
  • What was Jane Addams most known for?
    Hull House/helping immigrant women and children
  • What did the 21st Amendment do?
    repeals Prohibition
  • What was the Lend Lease Act?
    answer
  • Place these Pacific War battles in chronological order: Battle of Midway, Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Iwo Jima
    Coral Sea, Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
  • We have covered 7 historical eras since January. Name 4 of the 7.
    Gilded Age, Progressivism, Imperialism, WWI, Roaring 20s, Great Depression, WWII
  • robber barons are most associated with which historical era?
    Gilded Age
  • What did the 18th Amendment do?
    Prohibition
  • Which world leader essentially invented the political philosophy of fascism?
    Mussolini
  • Place these events of American Imperialism in chronological order: Treaty of Paris of 1898, annexation of Hawaii, completion of Panama Canal, end of the Philippine War
    Hawaii, Treaty of Paris of 1898, end of P. War, Panama Canal