Transcript Document
Meet the Teams
Rock
Paper
Scissors
Rules
• Team 1 goes first. Then Team 2. Then Team 3
• Each team put its desks in a circle.
• Everybody must have their Packet and Study
Guide out.
• Work as a team to find the answers to the
questions.
• All the answers are in your packet.
• Fill out your study guide as we go.
Team Spokesperson
• Each person on your team must take a turn being
the spokesperson for the team.
• The teacher selects first spokesperson for each
group. Then, each time it is your team’s turn it
moves one to the right.
• If you get it right, spokesperson should take the
shot.
• If the spokespersons decides not to shoot, the
replacement shooter may only shoot for a
maximum of two points.
How to Score Points
• If your team gets an answer right, you get a
chance to shoot for points.
• NO BACKBOARD ALLOWED!!
• The trash should be at the front of the room.
• 1 point: closest line of black tape.
• 2 points: halfway back
• 3 points: furthest line of black tape
• 4 points: your back touching the back wall.
How to Lose Points
• -1 Points: Hit the Promethean Board
• -4 Points: Block or disrupt a shot
Question
• What is a Push Factor? Give Examples.
Answer
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Reason to leave your country (pushed out).
War
Famine
Disease
Religious Intolerance
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• What is a Pull Factor? Examples?
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A reason to come into a country (pulls you in).
Good jobs
Education
Peace
Plenty of resources
Question
• What is Ellis Island?
Answer
• It is an island in New York harbor where
millions of immigrants from Europe were
required to enter the USA during the early
1900s.
Question
• Who were the Rough Riders?
Answer
• A group of volunteers led by Teddy Roosevelt.
They fought in Cuba during the SpanishAmerican War. They are credited with the
victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Question
• What is Yellow Journalism? How did it help
start the Spanish-American War?
Answer
• Yellow Journalism is exaggerated new
reporting which tries to get readers all riled
up.
• It helped start the Spanish-American war
because US newspapers blamed the explosion
of the U.S.S. Maine on Spain, even though
there was no proof.
Question
• Who were the Allied Powers?
Answer
• They were a military alliance that won WWI
and WWII.
• During WWI: Britain, France, Italy, Russia, USA
• During WWII: Britain, France, Soviet Union
(Russia), USA
Question
• Who were the Central Powers?
Answer
• They were the military alliance that lost WWI.
• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman
Turkey
Question
• What were bootleggers?
Answer
• People who smuggled alcohol during
Prohibition (1920s)
Question
• What is a Speakeasy?
Answer
• A secret nightclub where alcohol was served
during Prohibition (1920s).
Question
• What were the highlights of Teddy Roosevelt’s
political career?
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Rough Rider –fought in Cuba
Progressive President – reformed food quality
Conservationist –setup national parks
“Trustbuster” –broke up monopolies
Question
• What was industrialization?
Answer
• The large development of factories and
industry in the USA following the Civil War
(farms to factories)
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• What is Urbanization?
Answer
• The large development of cities after the Civil
War as people moved from the country into
the city (country to city).
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• Who were the Muckrakers?
Answer
• They were progressive journalists that tried to
expose problems in American society. Their
goal was to create change.
Question
• What was racial segregation?
Answer
• Separation in public spaces and
accommodations based on race.
• Example: separate seats on busses, separate
seating in restaurants
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• What is conservation?
Answer
• Trying to save the natural resources of the
USA for future generations.
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• What was the Open Door Policy?
Answer
• The approach the USA took toward European
powers trying to carve up the Chinese Empire
in the late 1800s. The USA maintained that
the “door should remain open” to all nations
trading with China.
Question
• What was the Convoy System? What problem
was it trying to solve?
Answer
• Supplies and troops were closely guarded by a
military escort on their way to Europe during
WWI. The Convoy system attempted to
protect these ships from Germen U-boat
attacks.
Question
• What is women’s suffrage?
Answer
• 19th Amendment: the right for women to vote
passed in 1920 during the Progressive Era.
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• What was the Red Scare?
Answer
• The fear that there was Communist conspiracy
to overthrow the U.S. government after WWI.
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• Why is the Battle of San Juan Hill famous?
Answer
• Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders in a
charge that made him famous at home.
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• Who were the Flappers?
Answer
• A counter culture of women who challenged
social boundaries. They “drank, dated, and
danced.” They wore shorter clothing, more
flashy clothing, and showed more skin than
before.
Question
• What was the Great Migration?
Answer
• After WWI, many African-Americans moved
off of the plantations in the South to factory
jobs in Northern Cities.
Question
• What was the New Deal?
Answer
• FDR’s plan to fix the Great Depression (Relief,
Recovery, Reform).
Question
• What was the Dust Bowl?
Answer
• Massive Dust Storms in the Great Plains
caused by over-farming/grazing and drought
during the Great Depression.
Question
• What was the Pearl Harbor attack?
Answer
• The Japanese “sneak-attacked” Pearl Harbor
Hawaii, drawing the USA into WWII.
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• Who were the Axis Powers?
Answer
• The Fascist governments of the world teamed
up for WWII.
• Germany, Italy, Japan
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What was Island-Hopping?
Answer
• Strategy used by the USA in the Pacific
Theater to defeat Japan.
• Hop from island to island. Skip hard to capture
strongholds and let them starve out. Just
capture ports and airstrips so that the USA
could immediately attack the next spot.
Question
• What was the impact of the atomic bomb in
WWII?
Answer
• The USA dropped two atomic bombs on
Japanese cities tens of thousands of people.
The Japanese then surrendered.
Question
• Which President was an influential protector
of the environment?
Answer
• Teddy Roosevelt
Question
• What do we think sank the USS Maine,
starting the Spanish-American War?
Answer
• Today, we think it was an accident.
• Then, we thought it was a Spanish bomb.
Question
• Why did Teddy Roosevelt want to build the
Panama Canal?
Answer
• Reduce the travel time for America ships
between Atlantic and Pacific (especially naval
ships)
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• What new technologies were introduced on a
large scale in WWI?
Answer
• Machine guns/torpedoes/submarines
• Airplanes/tanks/poison gas
• Barbwire/flamethrowers
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• Why did the USA enter WWI?
Answer
• Zimmerman Note (German offered to help
Mexico attack USA)
• German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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• What was the difference between the British
and German blockades in WWI?
Answer
• British: Battleships and mines
• German: submarines
Question
• How did the Food Administration affect the
lives of U.S. citizens during WWI?
Answer
• Asked them to give up certain food on certain
days to keep supplies up for the troops:
• Meatless Mondays
• Wheatless Wednesdays
Question
• What caused the stock market to crash in
1929?
Answer
• Overproduction by US factories and farms
• Risky borrowing practices by Americans
• Banking Panics (bank runs)
Question
• How was the Great Depression experienced
differently by men and women?
Answer
• Men: seen as “bread winners,” experienced
high rates of unemployment and stood in
breadlines.
• Women: seen as “house keepers” experience
job discrimination, began to become stay-athome moms again, considered it disgraceful
receive public charity.
Question
• What successes did immigrants experience in
achieving the American Dream in the 1920s?
Failures?
Answer
• Successes:
– Moved into middle class from povery
– Bought homes, cars, telephones, radios, new
clothes, etc.
• Failures:
– Red Scare
– Nativism
– Emergency Quota Act
– Palmer Raids
Question
• Why was there such an increase in Nativism
after WWI?
Answer
• Many returning veterans were afraid that
immigrants would steal the good factory jobs
by working for less pay.
• Many Americans felt tradition American
values were threatened by the new mix of
different cultures with which they came into
contact.
Question
• What are some technological changes which
occurred in the 1920s?
Answer
• Telephone, radio, car, movies, etc.
Question
• How did unsustainable spending habits among
American families help deepen the Great
Depression? Identify examples of these
spending practices.
Answer
• The average American went into debt in order
to buy the new things that went along with
the American Dream.
• Examples:
– Installment payments
– Buying stock on margin
– Buying on credit
Question
• How did the Dust Bowl effect the WHOLE
country?
Answer
• Great Plains: Farming collapses, people lose
their farms, crops, and livestock.
• West Coast: “Okies” move west to look for
work.
• East Coast: Cities rained on by dust storms
through the 1930s.
Question
• What important change did the NEW DEAL
reflect in the U.S. government’s approach to
handling poverty?
Answer
• A shift from the government taking a “handsoff approach” to a “hands-on approach.”
• Hands-off: Charity and families help the poor.
• Hands-on: Government programs help the
poor.
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• Why did the US enter WWII?
Answer
• Pearl Harbor attack
• Support Allies against Nazi Germany
Question
• Why was Hitler able to come to power in
Germany after WWII?
Answer
• Germany was humiliated by the Treaty of
Versailles after WWI and hurt by the Great
Depression.
• He had a plan to recover from both and
restore Germany to greatness.
Question
• Why did Harry Truman decide to drop atomic
bombs on Japan?
Answer
• He believe it would save many American lives.
The invasion of Japan was expected to be very
bloody and costly.