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7th Grade U.S. History SOL Review Packet
Unit 1: U.S. Geographic Regions –
1. Group each state by region:
Northeast / Southeast/ Midwest / Southwest / Rocky Mountains / Pacific / Noncontiguous
2. Identify the 19 cities (by the state and region they are in) that historically have had political, economic, and/or cultural significance to the development of the United States. Use the map below:
U.S. Civil War Reconstruction –
1. Fill –in-the blank: The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America guarantee ______for all citizens.
2. What are the basic provisions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States? In other words, what rights and freedoms do these amendments protect?
13th ______
14th ______
15th ______
3. What were the Reconstruction policies for the South? ______
4. What were some of the problems the South faced because of the harsh Reconstruction policies created by the North?______
5. What were the lasting impacts of the actions of the following three Reconstruction leaders?
· Abraham Lincoln: ______
· Robert E. Lee: ______
· Frederick Douglass: ______
6. What is racial segregation?______
7. What were “Jim Crow” laws?
8. What African-American believed social equality could be achieved through vocational education and accepted “social segregation?” ______
9. What African-American believed in full political, civil, and social rights for all African-Americans?
______
U.S. Western Expansion–
1. Fill-in-the-Blank: How did people’s perceptions and use of the Great Plains change after the Civil War? Because of new ______, people saw the Great Plains not as a “______” but as a vast area to be ______.
3. Describe what the physical features and climate of the Great Plains were like. ______
4. Technological advances allowed people to live in more challenging environments. List the inventions and adaptions that allowed people to adapt to life in the challenging environment of the plains.______
5. How did advances in transportation link resources, products, and markets?______
6. What are three examples of manufacturing areas that were located near centers of population? *______(New England) *______(Detroit) *______(Pittsburgh)
7. Why did westward expansion occur after the Civil War? (List 5 reasons)____________
8. How where the lives of American Indians impacted by western expansion?______
9. Describe who the following Native Americans were and how they dealt with “Westward Expansion.”
· Sitting Bull:______
· Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé:______
· Geronimo:______
10. What effect did the reduction of the buffalo population have on the Native Americans?______
11. What happened at the “Battle of Wounded Knee?”______
U.S. Immigration and Population Growth–
1. Fill-in-the-Blank: ______changes, ______of cities, and new ______produced interaction often conflict between different ______groups & in urban areas.
2. Why did immigration increase during the industrialization era?______
3. Why did cities grow develop during the late 1800s early 1900s?______
4. What two groups of immigrants were most often discriminated against? ______
5. What challenges faced Americans as a result of these social technological changes? ______
6. Who was Jane Addams & what did she create? ______
The U.S. Progressive and Industrialization Era:
1. Fill-in-the-Blank: Between the ______and ______, the United States was transformed from an ______to an ______nation.
· ______had both ______and ______effects on society.
3. What 2 inventions and inventors created great change and industrial growth in the United States? ______
4. What created the rise and prosperity of big business during the Progressive Era? ______
5. Name the 3 top “captains of industry” and the “big business” they created during the Progressive Era.
· ______
· ______
· ______
6. What factors caused the growth of industry during the Progressive Era?______
7. How did industrialization and the rise in big business influence life on American farms? ______
8. How did the reforms of the Progressive Movement change the United States?______
9. What were some of the negative effects of this time era and how did American workers and the public respond to the negative effects of industrialization?______
10. What major union formed as a result of the “rise in organized labor?” ______
11. What was the name of the plant where a violent steal strike occurred in Pennsylvania? ______
12. List some of the workplace reforms the individuals of the “Progressive Movement” wanted.______
13. What was the main goal of the “Woman’s Suffrage Movement?”______
14. Name the founders of the “Woman’s Suffrage Movement?”______
15. What amendment finally gave women the right to vote? ______
16. What were the main goals of the “Temperance Movement?”______
The Age of Invention:1. What were the results of improved transportation and more affordable automobiles?______
2. Who invented the airplane?______
3. How did communication change in the late 1800s and early 1900s? ______
4. Who used the assembly line to increase factory and labor productivity? ______
The Spanish American War
1. What were the reasons for the Spanish American War? ______
2. What were the results of the Spanish American War?______
3. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine state? ______
4. What was the United States able to build in Central America as a result of Theodore Roosevelt’s “big Stick” Diplomacy? ______
World War I:
1. What were the 4 reasons for the United States’ becoming involved in World War I? ______
2. List the major Allied Powers. ______
3. List the major Central Powers? ______
4. The United States provided international leadership at the conclusion of the war by introducing President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points during the Versailles Treaty. What was the name of the peace-keeping organization introduced, but never joined, by the U.S.? ______
The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression:
1. What were some of the technologies that changed American life in the early 20th century?______
______
2. Who made popular the use of the moving assembly line? ______
3. Who had an important role in the development of the radio? ______
4. What was Prohibition?______
5. What were speakeasies? ______
6. What were bootleggers? ______
7. What was the Great Migration? ______
8. What was the Harlem Renaissance? ______
9. Who was a Harlem Renaissance painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration north through art? ______
10. Who was a Harlem Renaissance poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots?______
11. Name two Harlem Renaissance jazz composers? ______
12. Who was a Harlem Renaissance blues singer? ______
13. Which artist of the 1920s was known for urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest? ______
14. Who wrote novels about the Jazz Age of the 1920s? ______
15. Who wrote Grapes of Wrath, a novel about poor migrant worker during the 1930s? ______
16. Name 2 composers of the 1920s and 1930s who wrote uniquely American music?______
17. What were causes of the Great Depression? ______
18. The ______failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system which triggered the Great Depression.
19. What were the major features of the New Deal? ______
World War II
1. What were the conditions in Europe after World War I that led to the rise of fascism and WWII? ______
2. What is fascism? ______
3. America’s foreign policy during WWII was to remain “neutral,” but the U.S. got involved in Europe’s conflict by lending & leasing battleship & war materials to England. What this policy called? ______
4. Which nations were known as the major Allies and their leaders?
Country / Leader
Roosevelt/Truman
Churchill
Country / Leader
Germany
Italy
Japan
5. Which countries were ruled by fascist dictators and became known as the Axis Powers?
6.
7. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded ______. World War II had begun.
8. What event on Dec. 7, 1941 caused the United States to declare war on Japan?______
9. What happened after the U.S. declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?______
10. In June of 1940, German troops marched victoriously into this European capital. ______, France
11. From August until October 1940, Germans bombed British cities, shipyards and industries. This was known as the______.
12. What was the turning point in the war in the Pacific?______
13. Where did the American and Allied troops land to begin the liberation of Western Europe? ______
14. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at______, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
15. How did the US force Japan to surrender and bring an end to World War II? ______
16. Why did American involvement in WWII bring an end to the Depression? ______
17. As many as six million Jews died during the ______
18. Nazi troops crammed Jews into railroad cars took them to prison camps called ______
19. What is anti-Semitism and Aryan supremacy? ______
20. Many women had not worked before WWII. An advertising campaign which encouraged women to take factory jobs featured a character called ______.
21. How did Americans support the war effort (WWII) at home? ______
POST WWII:
1. What parts of Europe did Soviet forces occupy after WWII? ______
2. What happened to Germany after WWII? ______
3. When and why was the United Nations established? ______
4. What was America’s plan to rebuild Europe prevent the spread of communism called?______
5. What happened to Germany after WWII? ______
6. What country occupied Japan after WWII? ______
7. Near the end of WWII, what was done to try to prevent future world wars? ______
8. What happened to labor unions after WWII? ______
9. What changes occurred in the American workforce after WWII? ______
10. After WWII, women left the workforce and returned to their families. Did they stay out of the workforce? ______
11. What was the result of the state of tension which developed between the two superpowers – the U.S. & the Soviet Union? ______
Post WWII and the Cold War Era:
1. The U.S. and the Soviet Union ideologically different. How? The U.S. was ______and ______. In contrast, the Soviet Union was ______and ______.
2. What is “containment”? ______
3. Our allies in Europe formed a military alliance called ______.
4. What caused the Korean conflict?______
5. What was the Vietnam conflict? ______
6. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? ______
7. What event signal became symbolic of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? ______
8. Changes in society after WWII included expanded educational & economic opportunities for ______.
9. One of the factors leading to changes in US society after WWII was a strong US economy which was the result of ______.
10. When and what was “The Baby Boom”? ______.
11. This president’s wife helped to helped to expand women’s rights. What was her name? ______
12. What gave educational, housing, and employment benefits to World War II veterans? ______
13. How did immigration change in the period after 1965? ______
The Civil Rights Era
1. Women activists were inspired by the achievements of the ______and took action to gain equality, particularly in the workplace.
2. After World War II, women sought equality in the ______.
3. What were some effects of segregation on American society?
4. The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. ______allowed schools and other facilities that were segregated by race.
5. Who called for passive resistance against segregated schools?______
6. Rosa Park’s actions resulted in the ______bus boycott.
7. What does NAACP stand for? ______
8. Which laws supported the struggle for equality for African Americans? ______
9. How were women disadvantaged in the workplace? ______
10. What organization campaigned for women’s rights? ______
11. Which industries benefited the most from the new technologies of the second half of the twentieth century? ______
12. What impact did the new technologies of the twentieth century have on American life? ______
13. How has U.S. foreign policy changed since WWII and the Cold War? ______
14. Which two ethnic groups make up the largest percentage of immigrants to the U.S.? ______
15. What concerns does the U.S. have about our global environment? ______
Representative citizens have influenced America scientifically, culturally, academically, and economically—Name them.
Science:
-______: Medicine (plasma)
-______: Physics (Manhattan Project team) / Culture:
-______: Architecture
-______: Dance / Academics:
-______: History
-______: Literature / Economics:
-______: Computer technology (Microsoft)
-______: Franchising (McDonald’s)
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7th Grade United States History SOL Review Packet
U.S. Geographic Regions
v A state is an example of a political region. States may be grouped as part of different regions, depending upon the criteria used.
v Cities serve as centers of trade and have political, economic, and/or cultural significance.
States grouped by region:Northeast: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Southeast: Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas
Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota
Southwest: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona
Rocky Mountains: Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho
Pacific: Washington, Oregon, California
Noncontiguous: Alaska, Hawaii / Cities:
Northeast: New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
Southeast: Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans
Midwest: Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit
Southwest: San Antonio, Santa Fe
Western (Rocky Mountains): Denver, Salt Lake City
Pacific: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle
Noncontiguous: Juneau, Honolulu
U.S. Civil War Reconstruction:
Ø Basic provisions of the U.S Constitutional Amendments: These 3 amendments guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens.
o The 13th Amendment bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.