SOC History Homework STAAR Review - Due 4/20/2022

When you see the words "woman suffrage," what should you think about?

• Women drinking

• Women dancing

• Women driving

• Women voting

When you hear "US enters World War II," what event should you think about?

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• D-Day invasion of Normandy

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

When you see "Bessemer steel process," what should you think?

• The iron age

• Stronger metal for a cheaper price that helped with railroads

• The invention of the light bulb

• The creation of the first computer

When you see "Fifteenth Amendment," what should you think about?

• Equal protection under the law

• Desegregation of schools

• Desegregation of the military

• African Americans being able to vote

What is one thing associated with President Theodore Roosevelt?

• New Deal

• National parks

• World War I

• Using the atomic bomb

When you see the word "flapper," what should you think about?

• Women being less traditional and more modern

• Men having total control of the household

• Women voting

• Women serving in the military

When you see the word "HUAC" (House Committee on Un-American Activities), what should you think about?

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Works Progress Administration

• Investigating communists

• Scopes Monkey Trial

If an event happened in the 1950s in US history and is referring to other countries, what is it probably related to?

• Promoting international trade

• Protecting the environment

• The United Nations

• Fighting against communism

When you see information about long hours and low wages for workers in the Gilded Age, what should you think about?

• The push to ban alcohol

• The fight against racial segregation

• The need for labor unions

• The beginning of immigration restrictions with the Chinese Exclusion Act

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

• Prohibition amendments

• Rights of former slaves amendments

• Progressive Era amendments

• Great Depression amendments