EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 1 of 10 Mount Auburn International Academy SABIS School Network Social Studies Level K / Grade 9 EOY Grade 9 Social Studies Revision guide For Essential U.S. History Chapters 19 and 20 plus a cumulative for Chapters 11-18. Expect multiple choice questions from chapters 19 and 20 with a short answer follow up question for each multiple choice question. Specific information from these two chapters will be on the exam a. Chapter 19:Political Concerns in a Troubled Period i. The Nixon Years ii. Ford s Presidency iii. Carter in the White House iv. Reagan: A Shift to the Right v. Bush Takes Over b. Chapter 20 i. Clinton, A New Democrat ii. The 2000 and 2004 Elections iii. Another Bush in the White House For the cumulative review questions, from chapters 11-18, expect short and long answer questions based on primary source documents, and data based material for interpretation. II. The Age of Industrialization a. Chapter 11: The Age of Industrialization i. Industrial Growth 1. Railroad Improvements 2. Better Communications 3. New Industries a. Steel b. Oil
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 2 of 10 c. Electric 4. Changes in Business Methods a. Vertical Integration b. The Corporation c. Combinations i. Merger ii. Pool iii. Trust iv. Holding companies d. Investment Banking e. New Retailing Practices i. The Free Enterprise System 5. Problems with Labor a. Organizing Unions i. Knights of Labor ii. AFL b. A Time of Struggle 6. Growth of Cities a. The New Immigration i. Patterns of work and settlement ii. Response to the newcomers b. City Life i. Construction ii. Transportation iii. Services c. Coping with City Problems i. Political Machines ii. Reformers and settlement houses 7. Education b. Supplemental i. Jacob Riis s How The Other Half Lives ii. Boss William T. Tweed iii. Immigration Charts III. Times Are a Changing (part 1) a. Chapter 12: The Last Frontier, Farmers, and Politics i. Mines, Trails, and Rails 1. The Lure of Wealth 2. Early Transportation and Communication 3. Railroad Links ii. The Cattle Frontier
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 3 of 10 iii. Farmers on the Plains iv. Tragedy for Native Americans 1. Resistance to the Newcomers 2. Reservation Life v. Politics and Protests 1. The Role of Government 2. Party Politics vi. A Special Case: The South 1. Economic Development 2. Racial Discrimination 3. Jim Crow Laws 4. Disfranchisement vii. Reforms and Controversial Issues 1. Civil Service Reforms a. Hayes b. Garfield and Arthur c. Tariffs 2. Business Regulations a. Farmers Concerns b. An Antitrust Law viii. The Populist Movement 1. Early Success 2. Money Question ix. The Election of 1896 1. The Conventions 2. The Campaign b. Chapter 13: The Progressive Era i. Voices of Protest 1. Muckrakers 2. Feminists 3. African-American Reformers ii. Reforms at City and State Levels 1. Cities 2. States iii. Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive President 1. Regulating Businesses 2. Public Health 3. Conservation 4. Other Actions iv. Taft in the White House
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 4 of 10 1. Progressive Accomplishments 2. Foreign Policy 3. Political Blunders 4. Election of 1912 v. Wilson s Administration 1. The New Freedom 2. Three New Amendments a. 17 th b. 18 th c. 19 th 3. Foreign Policy c. Chapter 14: Overseas Expansion and World War 1 i. Acquiring New Territories 1. Increased Interest in Expansion 2. Hawaii 3. Other Pacific Outposts ii. The Spanish-American War 1. Trouble in Cuba 2. Conflict in Two Hemispheres 3. The Pacific 4. The Caribbean 5. Results of the War iii. Extending U.S. Power 1. The Philippines 2. China a. Sphere of Influence b. Open Door Policy c. Boxer Rebellion 3. Japan 4. Intervention in Latin America a. Cuba b. Puerto Rico c. Venezuela d. Roosevelt Corollary iv. The Panama Canal v. Supplemental 1. Structure of Federal Reserve 2. The West and Railroads map 3. Native American Reservations Map 4. The Shame of Cities Lincoln Steffens
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 5 of 10 5. Principles of the Niagara Movement W.E.B. DuBois 6. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 7. Spanish-American War Political Cartoons 8. New York Evening Post: Jose Marti d. Chapter 15: The Twenties and Thirties i. Three Republican Presidents 1. Harding in the White House a. Turing back the clock b. Shady Deals 2. Coolidge as President 3. The Election of Hoover 4. The Economy in the New Era 5. Expanding Industries 6. Business Growth 7. Agriculture and Labor ii. Change and Tension 1. Attacks on Radicals a. Wartime developments b. The Red Scare 2. African Americans: Problems and Achievements 3. Prohibition 4. Women s New Freedom 5. The Roaring Twenties iii. The Crash and Its Aftermath 1. Panic on Wall Street 2. Beginning of the Depression a. Causes b. Effects 3. Hoover s Administration a. Governmental measures b. The Bonus Army c. The Election of 1932 iv. The Early New Deal 1. Advisers and aims 2. The Hundred Days a. Relief b. Recovery c. Reform 3. After the Hundred Days a. New Deal critics
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 6 of 10 b. The Second New Deal v. Later Years 1. Trouble over the Supreme Court 2. Labor problems 3. Farm problems 4. Final New Deal Legislation vi. New Deal Legacy 1. Minority Participation 2. The New Deal coalition 3. A Welfare state 4. Big Government IV. War and Peace a. Chapter 14: Overseas Expansion and World War 1 i. The European Conflict 1. The Outbreak of War 2. American Neutrality a. Submarine warfare b. Other factors ii. The United States at War 1. Efforts at Home 2. On the Western front iii. Aftermath of the War 1. The Peace Conference a. Wilson s Fourteen Points b. Aims of the Allies c. The Treaties 2. Rejections of the League iv. The League of Nations 1. Work of the League 2. Weaknesses of the League b. Chapter 16: World War 2 i. U.S. Foreign Policy Between Wars 1. Republican Diplomacy a. Washington Naval Conference b. Dawes Plan c. Kellogg-Briand Pact d. Policy toward Latin America 2. Changes Under Roosevelt ii. The Coming of War 1. Militarism in Japan
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 7 of 10 2. Fascism in Europe a. Italy s Mussolini b. Germany s Hitler c. A String of Aggression i. Initial moves ii. The Spanish Civil War iii. Final march to war iii. Early Years of the Conflict 1. Western Europe 2. Fighting Elsewhere 3. U.S. Neutrality 4. Pearl Harbor 5. The American Home Front a. War production b. Relocation of Japanese Americans iv. Allied Victory in Europe and Africa 1. The Soviet Union 2. North Africa 3. Italy 4. The Invasion in France 5. German surrender 6. The Holocaust v. Allied Victory in the Pacific 1. Japanese successes 2. Stopping the advance 3. Taking the Offensive a. Island-hopping b. The Philippines c. The final assault i. Truman in charge ii. To bomb, or not to bomb? c. Chapter 17: The Cold War i. Planning the Postwar World 1. Wartime conferences a. Tehran conference b. Yalta conference c. Potsdam conference 2. The Question of Germany a. Resettlement and reparations b. Punishing the Nazis
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 8 of 10 3. The United Nations a. Structure of the UN b. The UN in action ii. Beginning of the Cold War 1. The Iron Curtain 2. Containment a. The Truman Doctrine b. The Marshall Plan 3. Crisis in Germany 4. Military Alliances iii. Focus on Asia 1. Japan 2. China 3. The Korean War a. Beginning of the conflict b. Chinese intervention c. Negotiating peace iv. Further Challenges to Peace 1. Southwest Asia a. The Suez Canal b. The Eisenhower Doctrine 2. Soviet-U.S. Relations 3. Latin America d. Chapter 18: Prosperity, Idealism, Commitment i. War in Vietnam 1. Background 2. Increased U.S. Involvement 3. Opposition to the War 4. Continuing Conflict 5. Cease-fire and Final withdrawal e. Supplemental i. U.S. Marine E.B. Sledge s excerpt ii. Women of War photos iii. Minorities of War photos iv. Remember v. Truman s announcement of South Korea limited war vi. Firing of MacArthur vii. Vietnam and Korean War maps V. Modern U.S. Times a. Chapter 18: Prosperity, Idealism, Commitment
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 9 of 10 i. Truman s Presidency 1. Return to a peacetime economy 2. A mixed record a. Labor issues b. 22 nd Amendment c. Civil Rights and the election of 1948 d. The Fair Deal ii. The Hunt for Subversives 1. Important Trials a. Hiss b. Rosenbergs 2. McCarthyism iii. Eisenhower in the White House 1. The Middle of the Road 2. The Warren Court a. School desegregation b. Other decisions 3. Progress against discrimination iv. A Variety of Achievements 1. The Affluent Society 2. Science and Technology a. Medicine b. Space c. Electronics 3. Entertainment v. The Kennedy Years 1. Foreign Affairs a. Peace Corp b. Alliance for progress c. Bay of Pigs d. Tensions in Germany e. Cuban Missile Crisis 2. The New frontier a. Civil Rights b. Assassination vi. Johnson and the Great Society 1. Democratic Victory in 1964 2. New Programs b. Chapter 19:Political Concerns in a Troubled Period i. The Nixon Years
EOY Revision Sheet Social Studies, Level K Page 10 of 10 ii. Ford s Presidency iii. Carter in the White House iv. Reagan: A Shift to the Right v. Bush Takes Over c. Chapter 20 i. Clinton, A New Democrat ii. The 2000 and 2004 Elections iii. Another Bush in the White House