US HISTORY SOL REVIEW

Emergence of Modern

America & World Conflict

Inventions, Innovation, Industry• How did the

Bessemer process affect industry?

• Who are the inventors of the items shown?

• Who invented the next process & how did it affect industry & the consumer?

• Who are the leaders that made their fortunes in the 1800s for the industries pictured?

• What was the impact of the railroad on the US economy?

• What natural advantages did the US have that enabled it to become a powerful modern economy?

Progressive Era: (end of Reconstruction to early 1900s)• What were the causes of the Progressive

movement (late 1800s)?• Some of the legislative reforms created by the

movement are referendum, initiative & recall. What are they?

• What book was written about the photo? • What impact did it have?• What do you call the investigative writers &

journalists of the period?

• Who are the 2 women pictured & what do they have in common?

• What are the 1st two laws that attempted to outlaw monopolies?

• What do Samuel Gompers & Eugene Debs have in common?

• Describe the discrimination & segregation experienced by African Americans after the Civil War.

• The red on the map shows states that lost African-American population. What was this known as & why did it occur?

• How did the two men pictured alike/different?

WWI• What did the event picture

instigate?• What position did the US

take in 1914?• What events led to US

involvement in the war?

• Who was the US President at the time of WWI?

• What was the name of his peace plan?• What were the key points of his plan?• Why did the US not approve the Treaty

of Versailles?

Roaring 20s & Depression 30s• How do the

pictures relate to challenges of traditional values in the 1920s?

• What was the 19th amendment?

• What event is associated as a cause & the beginning of the Great Depression?

• What else caused the Great Depression?• How did the Great Depression impact

America?

WWII

• What event finally forced Br. & Fr. to declare war?

• Despite being neutral at 1st, how did the US aid our allies?

• What term did FDR use to describe the aid we gave our allies?

• What policy is depicted in the cartoon?

• Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?• Who are the groups pictured & how did each aid the US in

the war effort?

• What are the following terms & how are they related: genocide, final solution, Nuremberg Laws, Nuremberg Trials

• What was the impact of the trials on Jews & the rest of the world?

• How did the US organize & distribute its resources to achieve victory during WWII?

• What do Korematsu v. US & Plessy v. Ferguson have in common?

• How did US media & communications assist the Allied efforts in WWII?