SC Ready Social Studies Review: 5th Grade

President Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan after what?

What factor did not impact the environment as railroads were being built?

Which Jewish state does the U.S. support in the Middle East?

Makeshift homes made out of scrap lumber and empty boxes were called what?

How did cowboys and ranchers cooperate with each other?

What did land owners NOT provide their sharecroppers?

After the civil war, the economy shifted from _____ to ______.

During the Westward Expansion, most pioneers entered through what area?

What new technology allowed raw materials to be shipped to cities?

What was the name of the project that developed the two atomic bombs used on Japan?

The response the U.S. had to the war on terror created what government agency?

What amendment outlawed prohibition and distribution of alcohol?

Who invented the telephone?

Who was the dictator of Italy?

What did some freed slaves choose to do instead of working as sharecroppers?

What technology formed in the west to help bring water to the surface?

Which of the following is NOT a primary source?

What is the term that is given to the widespread availability of radio, tv, movies, and etc...

What was the purpose of the steel plow in the west?

What was not a 'push' factor for immigrants in the 20th century?

The 19th amendment passed after the government acknowledged women's help during what war?

Black Codes were laws that made it difficult to do what?

What was the new trend in home building during the Cold War?

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan are located in a part of the world known as?

In Latin America, the U.S. attempted to contain the spread of communism by isolating where?

Jim Crow laws were named after who?

What bill did Congress pass in 1964 that prohibited segregation?

The 'Gateway to the West' is located where?

What country, near the US, did the Soviet Union try to send nuclear missiles to?

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, who wanted to follow Lincolns plan?

What laws were passed after the reconstruction that separated races (segregation)?

What was not a factor that leads the U.S. to enter WWI?

What reform program focused on relief, recovery, and reform?

Who is the dictator of Germany?

What did the sharecroppers, freed slaves, provide for the land owners?

Conflict in the West occurred when ranchers drove cattle through what?

Who wanted to preserve the Union and make it easier for the South to rejoin?

Because of rivers (Colorado) and mountains (Rockies), it was difficult to travel in what?

What country wanted to take control of the far east?

What countries economic position is questioned because of globalization?

What terrorist group masterminded attacks on the world?

What did not contributed to the Great Depression?

How was sharecropping viewed?

The U.S. has a military base at Guantanamo Bay on which island nation?

What following items are examples of advertised good desired by Americans?

After WWII, President Truman order the army to do what?

What was the outcome of the Korean Conflict?

What was NOT one of the things used to prevent African Americans from voting?

Who's lives were most changed by appliances in the 1920's?

Who were the Allied Powers in WWII?

The U.S. assisted in the rebuilding of Europe after WWII. What was the name of this plan?

What is not a 'pull' factors for immigrants in the 20th century?

Which amendment granted freedom for slaves?

What was brought to France by African American soldiers during WWI?

What is the name of African Americans that moved west in hopes of owning land?

What Civil Rights leader is associated with the Montgomery bus boycotts?

Who was the leader of Great Britain?

What mountain range did settlers have to cross to travel west?

Who said that communist was trying to enter and work in the US government?

What was the name of the African American Military pilots who fought in WWII?

What was a major difference between 'old' and 'new' immigrants?

What is not a problem that the progressive movement tried to solve?

Why were boom towns developed?

What civil rights leader believed African Americans should rely on themselves for equality?

Where were Native American children sent in the 19th century?

Why is Social Security helpful?

How did railways hurt Buffalo herd population?

During Reconstruction who wanted to punish the South?

What has lead to global warming?

What is the purpose of the FDIC?

What countries made up the Axis Powers in WWII?

What does NATO stand for?

What policy divided reservations into land for individual Native American Families?

The U.S. is currently involved trying to make what type of government in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Native Americans who were pushed off their land were made to live where?

The goal of the US was to?

Who was the leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda?

During Westward Expansion, millions of buffalo were killed. Who did this affect?

What new invention made the South a more desirable place to live?

What is NOT a goal of the reconstruction?

When did the Axis Powers surrender in Europe?

Which of the amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?

What president worked hard to break up trusts (monopolies)?

Many free slaves who still worked on farms became what?

Iraq invaded what country in the 1990's in order to take their oil?

What amendment prohibited the selling and production of alcohol?

Who was an icon for women during WWII?

What does "Going Green" mean?

What type of conflict affected the lives of Americans during the 1920's?

What two countries were conflicting during the Cold war Era?

What organization threatened blacks to keep them from being equal?

What was the movement of African-Americans from the South to the North for factory jobs?

What superpower collapsed in the early 1990's?

What organization had the goal to peacefully solve world problems?

What made travel westward much quicker and easier?

What was the name of the first unmanned satellite made by the Soviet Union?

Which amendment gave ALL men the right to vote?

Who invented the idea of an assembly line?

Who invented the telegraph?

What was not a problem in American cities in the early 1900s?

What does NAFTA represent?

What Civil Rights leader is known for his/her peaceful protests and marches?

What was Saddam Hussain suspected of hiding In Iraq?

What organization helps to ensure American receives the petroleum they need?

Why were the Neutrality Acts passed in the 1930's?

What war began after WWII between the US and the Soviet Union?

What court case declared segregation of schools as unconstitutional?

What is the name of the process that turns iron ore into steel?

What was build by the Soviet Union to separate East and West Berlin?

What invention made it easier for railroads to communicate?

Why have U.S. businesses moved to other countries?

What did the Transcontinental Railroad NOT provide?

Who were the two groups of immigrants most responsible for building the railroads?

What was the main reason the U.S. was involved in the Middle East?

What was NOT an obstacle for Westward Expansion?

What is NOT one of the four major river systems in the west?

What amendment allowed women to vote?

What ended WWI?

What caused conflict between miners and Native Americans?

Why were the Great Plains first called 'The Great American Desert'?

Who invented the Incandescent Light Bulb?

After WWII what country was divided into 4 zones?

What led to the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII?

Why were the Great Plains called breadbasket of the country?

Why has an increase in global trade impacted the American economy so much?

What was the name given to the African-American cultural movement centered in Harlem?

What did the Freedman's Bureau NOT do to help newly freed slaves?

The goal of the Soviet Union was to?

What marked the end of the economic boom of the 1920's?

What Military alliance was mad in response to the threat of the Societ Union?

What were Southern people who help the blacks called?

What caused conflict between U.S. gov. and Native Americans?

Who are people who came from the north to help the free slaves?

During Westward Expansion, the industry that grew cause what to the environment?

The U.S. is involved where for humanitarian reasons?

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller build cooperations known as what?

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many Japanese Americans were moved too...

What brought African Americans to the cities in the North and Midwest?

How did farmers cause conflict with cowboys?

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union?

What improvements were made to the telephone during the Cold War Ear?

An example of the Black Codes allowed you to vote only if you could do what?