Friday, December 2, 2016

Quarter 2 Social Studies Exam Study Guide

Quarter 2 Social Studies Exam Study Guide
Chapter 13 Lessons 1-3
Notes:
* Please remember to study the dates for all major events!
*Your Q2 Social Studies exam will focus on Chapter 13 Lessons 1-3. You are responsible for all material in the textbook, in your notebook, and discussed or distributed during class. If you have any questions or need extra help, please come and ask me well before the exam date.
*Your exam will be worth 15% of the final exam mark. The other 15% will come from the New Deal and FDR Poster Project.
Chapter 13 Good Times and Hardships
Lesson 1 World War I
Big Idea: Know the causes and effects of World War I
*Explain the four main causes of the war
*Explain the events that caused the United States to enter the war
*Describe the ways that the war affected the lives of people on the home front (left in America), especially women and African Americans.
*Describe how the Treaty of Versailles ended the war, created the League of Nations, and made Germany pay heavy fines.
Vocabulary: alliance, Allied Powers, Central Powers, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, isolationism

Lesson 2 The Roaring Twenties

Big Idea: I will know that the 1920’s was a time of progress and positive change for many, but was also a time of hardships for others, including immigrants.

*Understand that new technology increased production and consumption of goods.

*Describe how radio and movies helped to create a national popular culture.

*Explain the causes and effects of The Harlem Renaissance for African Americans.

*Understand that over a million African Americans north in the Great Migration.

*Understand the causes and effects of Prohibition.

*Be able to explain what the Great Migration was. Specifically what caused it and what its effects were.
Prezi:
Vocabulary and Concepts: Harlem renaissance, flappers, jazz age, Charles Lindbergh, Louis Armstrong, F.Scott Fitzgerald, prohibition, The Temperance Movement, The Great Migration, segregation, KKK, immigrants, the Sixteenth Amendment, the Seventeenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment

Lesson 3 The Great Depression
Big Idea: I will know the different ways in which Americans responded to the hardships of The Great Depression.
Vocabulary & Concepts: You should be able to define and discuss these words/people/events: Great Depression, Unemployment, Stock market, Credit, Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Homeless, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Drought, Great Plains, Hoovervilles
*Be able to explain the cause and effects of the Great Depression
*Be able to explain the cause and effects of the Dust Bowl
*Describe people’s feelings during this time
*Describe people’s feelings towards Herbert Hoover
Lesson 4 The New Deal
Big Idea: I will know that the purpose of the New Deal was to improve people’s lives during the Great Depression.
*Be able to name and describe the New Deal programs and their purpose
Vocabulary: New Deal, First Hundred Days, Social Security




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