Benchmark Review

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Benchmark Review

• Ready, Set, Study!!

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Test Taking Strategies

• Read the ENTIRE question. Pay attention to words
  like all, not, most, best. These are qualifying
  words that could change your answer.
• Example
• All of the following are examples of new culture
  that emerged in the 1920s except
• A. fads.
• B. radio
• C. prohibition
• D. television

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Test Taking Strategies

• Star ones you dont know and come back to them
• You have 90 minutes to complete 75 questions. If
  it is taking you more than 2-3 minutes on one
  question, star it and move in. Just dont forget
  to go back to it!
• Hint For ones you are stuck on, you might bubble
  in your best guess on your bubble sheet and star
  it in the test book. This way, you arent off on
  your numbers and you at least have AN answer down
  if you run out of time!

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Test Taking Strategies

• Use process of elimination!
• You can mark in the test book, so mark out wrong
  answers

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Test Taking Strategies

• Read EVERY answer choice before you decide. Even
  if answer A looks good- keep reading just in
  case!
• Example
• The installment plan
• A. allowed people to buy things over a period of
  time on credit
• B. allowed people who couldnt afford things
  before a chance to buy nice items
• C. was very good for businesses as it increased
  sales
• D. all of the above.

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What should I study?

• Rio Study Guides for every unit (1-7).
• Simply reading over them wont help much, you
  should actually STUDY them. Cover the answer and
  try to quiz yourself. If you dont understand a
  question, look through your notes to find out
  more.

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What should I study?

• Links to online practice multiple choice
  questions on my website.
• Jordan Homepage- Directories- Social Studies- Ms.
  Bulpett

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What should I study?

• Extra Credit Vocabulary Words
• Already done them? Awesome, now just memorize
  them! Havent done them? The list of words for
  each unit is on my website- try to do at least a
  few from each unit as you study.

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What should I study?

• Study your Benchmark Review Packet!
• Doing the Review Guide and then looking back over
  it will help.

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Final Piece of Advice

• Take this test seriously. It counts as 2 test
  grades. It is not easy.
• Not studying is not a good idea.
• Devote at least 30 mins. tonight and an hour
  tomorrow night to studying. If nothing else, I
  would really appreciate it ?

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President Match Answers

• 1.James Madison
• 2. George Washington
• 3. Abraham Lincoln
• 4. James K. Polk
• 5. Teddy Roosevelt

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President Match Answers

• 6. William Howard Taft
• 7. Herbert Hoover
• 8. Woodrow Wilson
• 9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 10. Thomas Jefferson

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President Match Answers

• 11. William McKinley
• 12. Ulysses S. Grant
• 13. Warren G. Harding
• 14. John Adams
• 15. Andrew Johnson

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Revolutionary War

• 1776
• George Washington was leader of the army
• 13 Colonies vs. British
• Outcome U.S. becomes a country!

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War of 1812

• 1812 (duh)
• President James Madison
• Who British vs. United States
• Why did US get involved?
• Impressment of soldiers
• War hawks (congressmen pushing for war)
• British supplying Native Americans with weapons
• Outcome U.S. beats Britain once and for all!

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Mexican-American War

• When 1848
• President James K. Polk
• Who US vs. Mexico
• Outcome
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago U.S. gets Texas, all
  of the land of the Mexican Cession (AZ, NM, CA,
  NV)
• U.S. buys land in Gadsden Purchase
• Helps manifest destiny

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Civil War

• When 1861-1865
• President Abraham Lincoln (union/north)
  Jefferson Davis (confederacy/south)
• Who North vs. South
• Outcome
• Reconstruction (13, 14, 15th amendments)
• Carpetbaggers, Scalawags
• Jim Crow Laws
• Sharecropping

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Spanish-American War

• When 1898
• President William McKinley
• Who U.S. vs. Spain
• Why did US get involved?
• USS Maine
• Cuban Concentration Camps
• DeLomme Letter
• Outcome
• Treaty of Paris
• US gets Guam, PR, Phil.
• Platt Amendment

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World War I

• When 1914-1919 (US enters in 1917)
• President Woodrow Wilson
• Who Allies vs. Central powers
• Why did the US get involved?
• Zimmerman Note
• Lusitania sunk
• Germany Interfering with US trade
• make the world safe for democracy
• Outcome
• Treaty of Versailles
• Great Migration, 19th amendment

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Amendment Match Answers

• 13th C
• 14th E
• 15th H
• 16th G
• 17th D
• 18th B
• 19th A
• 21st F

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Benchmark Practice Questions (answer key)
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The New Nation

• Washingtons Farewell
• War of 1812
• Federalists
• vs. Democratic
• Republicans

George Washingtons advice stay out of
alliances, foreign affairs!
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Expansion Reform

• Manifest Destiny
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican-American War
• Native American Removal
• 2nd Great Awakening
• Abolition Womens Rights
• Sectionalism- the north
• is different from the south

Louisiana Purchase, made by Thomas Jefferson
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Crisis, Civil War Reconstruction

• Nullification Crisis
• Abraham Lincoln- preserving the Union
• Northern Advantages
• Lincolns Plan vs. Andrew Johnsons plan
• Jim Crow Laws

Anaconda Plan
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Industrialization

• Immigration
• City Life
• Rockefeller, Big Business
• Labor Unions
• New Inventions telegraph, suspended bridges,
  transcontinental railroad

Ellis Island
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The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

• Corrupt Presidents (Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland)
• Pendleton Civil Service Act
• Farmers the Populists
• Settlement Houses
• Reform Child Labor, Womens Suffrage

William Jennings Bryans Cross of Gold Speech
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Imperialism and World War I

• Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow
  Wilson their foreign policies
• Spanish-American War USS Maine, DeLomme Letter-
  criticizes president
• Causes of US entry in WWI Lusitania, Zimmerman
  Telegram
• Effect of WWI at home (propaganda, Great
  Migration)

Teddy Roosevelts Great White Fleet
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Prosperity and Depression

• Warren Harding, Return to Normalcy
• Nativism, Red Scare
• Social Change in the Roaring 20s (flappers,
  prohibition, etc.)
• Harlem Renaissance
• Great Depression (causes, effects)
• Hoover vs. FDR

Speakeasy underground club