6^th Grade Social Studies Final Exam Study Guide May 2009

 

Independence for Latin America

Vocabulary:

• Alliance
• Cabildo
• Campaign
• Caudillo
• Conspirator
• Export
• Guerilla army
• Hacienda
• Import
• Liberator
• Machete
• Militia
• Mural
• Padre
• Pension
• Plantation
• Republic
• Royalist
• Scythe
• Viceroy
• Volunteer

 

Main Ideas:

1. What was the social structure in Latin America?
2. What were some of the inspirations for revolution?
3. Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture?
4. What were the causes of rebellion against the French in Haiti?
5. Who were the significant people in the Mexican struggle for independence?
6. Describe how Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin liberated South America from Spanish rule?
7. Why wasn’t Simon Bolivar able to unite South America as one country?
8. How did Joes de San Martin help Argentina, Chile, and Peru gain independence?
9. How did Brazil gain independence from Portugal?
10. Know the locations of countries in Central and South America.

 

Industrialization and Urbanization in America

Vocabulary:

• Anarchist
• Boarder
• Capital
• Corporation
• Investor
• Labor union
• Merchant
• Phonograph
• Political boss
• Political machine
• Rebate
• Regulate
• Socialism
• Sweatshop
• Telegraph
• Tenement
• Textile
• Transcontinental
• Trust

 

Main Ideas:

1. What was Andrew Carnegie’s life like and what were his accomplishments?
2. How did industrialization affect the lives of workers?
3. How and why did America’s railroad system grow after the Civil War?
4. How did railroads contribute to growth in industry?
5. What factors led to America’s growth as an industrial nation?
6. How did inventions such as the telephone and phonograph create new industries?
7. Describe the business methods of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.
8. Why are monopolies, trusts, and rebates unfair business practices?
9. What were working conditions like in factories and mines?
10. Why did workers organize labor unions?
11. What factors contributed to the growth of America’s cities?
12. What are some of the reasons people started moving to cities?
13. What were some problems with rapidly growing cities?

 

 

Reform in Industrial America

Vocabulary:

• Abolitionist
• Assassinate
• Boycott
• Civil rights
• Depression
• Inflation
• Landmark
• Lynching
• Monopoly
• Muckraker
• Oratory
• Progressive Era
• Refuge
• Scapegoat
• Segregation
• Socialist
• Suffrage
• Trade

 

Main Ideas:

1. What were the main goals of the Populist Party and William Jennings Bryan?
2. Who were muckrakers and what did they try to do?
3. What impact did Jacob Riis have on the cleaning up of New York tenements?
4. What were Theodore Roosevelt’s views on land conservation, saving natural resources, and protecting native wildlife?
5. What was Roosevelt’s “square deal” policy?
6. What hardships did African Americans face after the Civil War (describe Jim Crow laws, lynching, and discrimination)?
7. Describe the laws and customs of the nineteenth century that restricted the rights of women.
8. What was the Nineteenth Amendment and when was it passed?
9. Describe the accomplishments of the following people:
• Eugene Debs
• Susan B. Anthony
• Ida B. Wells
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Jacob Riis
• Jane Adams
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• William Jennings Bryan