G block SEI Midterm Review Sheet

Friday, January 23:

-Quarter 2 grades and makeups

-This review sheet!

Monday, January 26- Snow Day

Tuesday, January 27- - Snow Day

Wednesday, January 28- Last day of Quarter 2!  Deadline for quarter 2 work, makeup, re-submissions, etc.

2025-2026 Midterm schedule:

Thursday, January 229

G- 8:00-9:30 AM

F- 10:00- 11:30 AM

E- 12:30-2:00 PM

Friday, January 30

D- 8:00-9:30 AM

C- 10:00- 11:30 AM

Monday, February 2

B- 8:00-9:30 AM

A- 10:00- 11:30 AM

Study your tests from the first half of this year!  The Multiple choice questions and open response questions come from notes based on the following units and chapters:

• Reconstruction, Westward Expansion and Industrialization (Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Immigration, Urbanization and Modernization of the late 1800's (Chapters 15 and 16 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Progressivism and Imperialism (Chapters 17 and 18 of "the Americans" textbook)
• WWI (Chapter 19 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Roaring Twenties (Chapters 20 and 21 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Great Depression and New Deal (Chapters 22 and 23 of "the Americans" textbook)

I also put some kahoots on the Google classroom to study!

2025-2026 Midterm review sheet (C and E block)

Due to snow days Wednesday, January 28 is the last day of Quarter 2!  Deadline for quarter 2 work, makeup, re-submissions, etc.

2025-2026 Midterm schedule:

Thursday, January 29

G- 8:00-9:30 AM

F- 10:00- 11:30 AM

E- 12:30-2:00 PM

Friday, January 30

D- 8:00-9:30 AM

C- 10:00- 11:30 AM

Monday, February 2

B- 8:00-9:30 AM

A- 10:00- 11:30 AM

Common midterm- The common midterm exam (all 10th grade teachers/all levels) is comprised of 61 multiple choice questions worth 64 points total based on the notes and unit tests from chapters 13-23 (Westward Expansion-New Deal).  There are true/false and matching questions in the multiple choice, but most of them are classic 4 option multiple choice.  The 2 matching questions are worth 8 points each (16 total). The exam is also comprised of 1 open response question worth 9 points based on a course essential question.  There is one essay question based on Essential questions as well and it is worth 15 points.  Rubrics are provided.  These questions require specific examples and explanations to show knowledge pertaining to the question from 1877 until the 1930's.    Below are the essential question-based open response questions you may see.

Essential Question #1- How has the Idea of the American Dream influenced the lives of Americans and how does it evolve over time?

-With Immigration 1877-1930's?

    -Ellis Island

        -Emma Lazarus/New Colossus 

    -Angel Island

    -Birds of Passage

-For farmers?

-For middle class?

Mass consumption/materialism of the 1920's/Auto ownership

1920's Economy

1920's Economy indicators

Essential Question #2- Explain an example from 1877-1930's of one of the below groups attempting to access their rights and/or how they were opposed.

-Women

    -19th Amendment

    -Jeannette Rankin

    -Flappers

-African Americans

    -Plessy vs. Ferguson

    -Jim Crow Laws (Segregation)

   -Voting Restrictions

        -Literacy Test

        -Poll Tax

        -Grandfather Clause

    -15th Amendment

    -Booker T. Washington/Up From Slavery

    -W.E.B. Du Bois/"Souls of Black Folk"/Niagara Movement

    -Great Migration

-Native Americans

    -Land ownership

    -Assimilation

    -Outlawing the Ghost Dance, etc.

    -Reservations

-Laborers

    -Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

-Immigrants

    -Literacy Tests

    -Gentleman's Agreement

    -Chinese Exclusion Act

    -Immigration Restriction League

    -Sacco and Vanzetti

-Espionage and Sedition Acts violate US right to free speech/Eugene Debs

Essential Question #4- Give an example 1877-1930's of how is Power acquired and what measures does it take to Protect Itself?

-Andrew Johnson's inauguration?

-Election of 1876's importance?

-Chester Arthur's inauguration

-Importance of Grover Cleveland's elections

-Effect of McKinley's assassination

-Election of 1912

-Election of 1916

-Return to Normalcy

-Coolidge's 1923 inauguration

-Election of 1932

Essential Question #5- Give an example from 1877-1930's of the accumulation of wealth in US History and explain why it is important.

-Unions

-Boston Police Strike

- Industrialists

    -JP Morgan

    -Vanderbilt

    -Carnegie

    -Rockefeller

-Horizontal Integration

-Vertical Integration

-Expansion of railroads in the 1870's and 1880's before bankrupcies

-Most Americans working for wages

-Gap between social classes in Gilded Age

-Haymarket affair and labor controversies

-Causes of the Great Depression

Essential Question #6- How have the negative and positive effects of war affected the development of America?

-Spanish American War (1898)

    -USS Maine

    -De Lome Letter

-Philippine American War (1899)

-Boxer Rebellion (1900)

-WWI (1917-1918 (US Involvement))

    -Lusitania

    -Zimmerman Telegram

    -Treaty of Versailles

    -14 Points

    -League of Nations

Essential Question #7- Explain one of the below examples from 1877-1930's of US Imperialism. (and be able to locate them on a map) Also- Expansionism

-Hawaii

-Alaska

-Puerto Rico

-Cuba

-Philippines

-Panama Canal

-Mexico (Pancho Villa)

-China (Open Door Policy/Boxer Rebellion)

Pre-1890 US world influence (small, medium, or large world power?)

After 1890's driven by overseas trade!

Yellow Journalism

Anti-Imperialist League

Roosevelt Corollary

Essential Question #8- Give one specific example from 1877-1930's of the importance of a political party or movement in US History?

-Populists

    -Gold Standard vs. Bimetallism

-Socialists?

    -Samuel Gompers

    -Eugene Debs

    -Red Scare

-Pendleton Civil Service Act

-Unions

-Progressive movements

    -Muckrakers

    -Bull Moose Party

    -Suffragettes

    -Prohibitionists

    -Ford Motor Co

    -Margaret Sanger/Planned Parenthood

    -Conservationism

    -Reformers

        -Pure Food and Drug Act

        -Meat Inspection Act

-"He Kept Us out of War"- 1916 (Wilson)

-Pacifists and Jeannette Rankin

-1920's Republicans

    -Return to Normalcy (1920- Harding)

    -Teapot Dome Scandal

-1930's Democrats

    -New Deal

        -FDIC

        -Social Security Administration

        -CCC

        -21st Amendment

Essential Question #9- Explain one of the below examples from 1877-1930's of mass media being influential in America.

-Newspaper

-Radio

Essential Question #10- Give one strong example 1877-1930's of an advancement in transportation technology and explain how it impacted the American people?

-Railroad

-Automobile

-Airplane

Industrialization technology

military technology

-Tanks

-Machine Gun

-Airplanes

-Submarines

-Barbed Wire

-Anti-Aircraft guns

farming technology

-Steel Plow invented by John Deere

mass media technology

-Newspapers

-Radio

-Why were Time Zones instituted in the US and world?

-Electricity in cities

-Skyscrapers

Essential Question #11- How does the historical content change or reinforce how you see your values and decisions in your role in society (Civic identity)

-What is the 16th amendment and what is your opinion of it?

-What is the 17th amendment and what is your opinion of it?

-What is the 18th amendment and what is your opinion of it?

-What is the 19th amendment and what is your opinion of it?

Short Answer Rubric

Test Essay Rubric

Study your tests from the first half of this year!  The Multiple choice questions and open response questions come from notes based on the following units and chapters:

• Reconstruction, Westward Expansion and Industrialization (Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Immigration, Urbanization and Modernization of the late 1800's (Chapters 15 and 16 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Progressivism and Imperialism (Chapters 17 and 18 of "the Americans" textbook)
• WWI (Chapter 19 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Roaring Twenties (Chapters 20 and 21 of "the Americans" textbook)
• Great Depression and New Deal (Chapters 22 and 23 of "the Americans" textbook)

C and E block- Great Depression and New Deal Test Review Sheet

The Great Depression and New Deal Test is Wednesday, January 21 on google classroom/forms.

All Tests are 100% based on class notes and discussions.  The notes are based on the book "The Americans" Chapter 22 and 23.  Text links given each day. There are 12 multiple choice (worth 70 points).

-Causes of the Great Depression (22.1)

-Effects of the Great Depression (22.1-22.2)

-Dust Bowl (22.2)

-Bonus Army (22.3)

-FDIC (23.1)

-CCC (23 intro and 23.1)

-Social Security (23.2)

-21st Amendment (23.2)

-Primary Source Analysis- Know the difference between Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" philosophy (22.3) and FDR's New Deal (23.1)

3 open response (worth 30 points)

-Literature analysis of "The Grapes of Wrath"- see 23.3-23.4 Notes

-Evaluate the 22nd amendment (23.5 notes)

-Essential Question #10- How did one of these pieces of technology affect a specific industry or geographic area? Radio, Hoover Dam or Mount Rushmore

G Block- Great Depression and New Deal Test study guide

The Great Depression and New Deal Test is Wednesday, January 21 on google classroom/forms.

All Tests are 100% based on class notes and discussions.  The notes are based on the book "The Americans" Chapter 22 and 23.  Text links given each day.

7 multiple choice

2 matching sections

2 short open response

Chapter 22 Intro- What is the Great Depression?

22.1- What caused the Great Depression?

22.2-What were the effects of the Great Depression?

-What was the Dust Bowl?

-What were the effects of the Dust Bowl?

22.3- Who is right- Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" or FDR's government help to people?

Chapter 23 Intro- What is the New Deal? (695)

23.1- CCC (692, 697)-

Fireside Chats (696)- 

FDIC (696)- What is your opinion of government insured banks?

AAA (697)- 

Deficit Spending (698)- 

23.2- Eleanor Roosevelt (701)- 

21st Amendment- 

WPA (704)- 

NYA (705)- 

Social Security Act (Beneficios) (707)- 

G block SEI- Chapter 20+21 Test Study guide

 The Roaring Twenties Test is Thursday, December 18 on google classroom/forms.

All Tests are 100% based on class notes and discussions.  The notes are based on the book "The Americans" Chapter 20 and 21 and other sources.  Text links given each day.

For the 16 multiple choice, choose the best answer!  If you need to, eliminate wrong answers to find the best answer!  For the 3 open response questions, write a logical response to the question answering all parts of the question and use a specific historical example discussed in our class to prove you know.  

Election of 1920- __________________________ became President of the USA

Picture question- Does Harding look Presidential? __________________

Picture question- What ruined the Harding Presidency- ____________________________ Scandal, which was his friends committing crimes

  “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; . . . not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”  Warren G. Harding- Question #1- After WWI, what does President Harding think the US needs? Return to _________________________

Inauguration of 1923 and Election of 1924- __________________________ became President of the USA

19th Amendment gave __________________________ the right to __________________________

What types of people enjoyed the "Roaring Twenties" or "Jazz Age"? __________________________, __________________________, __________________________, etc.

How was Mass Media influential in the USA in the 1920's? __________________________ instead of TV, sports legends like Babe Ruth, and __________________________ flew across the Atlantic Ocean solo and nonstop!

"In all my life I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood. . . . We were tried during a time . . . when there was hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigner. . . . I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian. . . . If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.” 

Question #1- Who said this?

Question #2- What evidence was presented in this double homicide and burglary case in South Braintree, MA?

Question #3- What did he plea (declare himself)?

Question #4- When he was executed on weak evidence, many people say this is a good example of ____________________________________________

Picture Question- What was prohibited during "Prohibition"? ________________________

“ The blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order . . . . eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat . . . licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of American homes, . . . burning up the foundations of society.” - A Mitchell Palmer, "The Case Against the Reds"- Question #1- What is this an example of? The _________________ Scare (Fear of Communism)

Picture fill in the blank- During the Roaring 1920s, the U.S. economy ____________________

Picture question- What did more people have (own) in the 1920's? ___________________

Who were the Flappers? ___________________ who challenged traditional gender roles and behavior.

Who do you support- the Boston Police in 1919 fighting for better pay and work conditions (Huelga), or MA Governor Calvin Coolidge, who said "There is no right to strike against the public safety, anywhere, anytime."  Explain why you support one side and not the other!

Using a reference to any small part of the poem below: 1- Identify the main idea of the author and 2- one piece of evidence to support the main idea

Explain if Prohibition (of alcohol 1920-1933) was a success or failure.

Studying for the Roaring Twenties Test (CH 20-21)

The Roaring Twenties Test is Friday, December 12 on google classroom/forms.

All Tests are 100% based on class notes and discussions.  The notes are based on the book "The Americans" Chapter 20 and 21 and other sources.  Text links given each day.

For the 21 multiple choice, choose the best answer!  If you need to, eliminate wrong answers to find the best answer!  For the 3 open response questions, write a logical response to the question answering all parts of the question and use a specific historical example discussed in our class to prove you know.  

Cheating in any form is prohibited.  This test judges what you know on test day.  Test corrections will be allowed after grading is complete, so no need to cheat or plagiarize anyway!  Also, test corrections should decrease the test anxiety!  Once the test is graded, Mr. Cook will "release the grade and comments", and you will be sent an email (from google forms which gives feedback on manually entered point deductions).  Mr. Cook will also tell the students that the email has been sent in class once they are all done.  To prepare for a potential test correction, at that point students should study the released test and see Mr. Cook at an appropriate time for studying help also as Multiple Choice questions do not offer feedback.  Test corrections are only accepted on paper.  On test corrections explain why the correct answer is indeed correct or explain a trick you have to remember it.  Do not just list it.  Thanks.

Multiple choice and open response questions are based on notes but also on the course essential questions below!  When studying on your own, try to come up with everything they know for each essential question pertaining to our recently studied unit.  

Essential Question #1- How has the idea of The American Dream influenced the lives of Americans and how has its definition changed over time?

• Jazz Age (21 Intro)
• Roaring Twenties (20 Intro)
• Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance (21.4)
• Baseball is "America's Past-time" (21.3)

Essential Question #2- How have various groups attempted to Access Their Rights and how have they been Opposed and how did they Succeed at times?

• What is a Double Standard? 21.2
• What was a famous Double Standard of the 1920's?
• What are some Double Standards today?
• Sacco and Vanzetti 
• 19th amendment
• Blacklist for Communist affiliation (21.4)
• Flappers (21.2)

Essential Question #3- How has Religion, Philosophy and Ideology affected the US?

• Scopes "Monkey" Trial (21.1- Page 644-645)

Essential Question #4- How is Power acquired and what measures does it take to Protect Itself?

• Election of 1920 (20.2)
• "Return to Normalcy" (20.2)
• Harding's death in office and Coolidge's 1923 Inauguration (20.2)
• Election of 1924 (Coolidge)

Essential Question #5- How does the drive to acquire Wealth influence America?

• 1920's Economy (car ownership, radios, other appliances) (20.3- Page 633)

Essential Question #8-How have citizens affected the growth and change of Political Parties and Government?

• Nativism (20.1)
• Quota Systems for Imigration (20.1)
• US fear of Communism (20.1)
• Isolationism (20.1)
• Red Scare (20.1)
• Palmer Raids (20.1)
• Teapot Dome Scandal and Ohio Gang (20.2)
• 18th Amendment (21.1)
• Speakeasies (21.1)
• Bootleggers (21.1)

Essential Question #9-How has the rise of Mass Media influenced and transformed Culture?

• Radio (21.3)
• Langston Hughes' poetry (21.4 notes) and the Harlem Renaissance

Essential Question #10-How have advances in Technology impacted the development of the country and the American people?

• Radio (21.3)
• Lindbergh and the airplane (21.3)

Essential Question #11- How does Content Knowledge change or reinforce how you see your values and decisions in your role as a citizen?

• Who do you support in the Boston Police Strike- The Governor of MA ("There is no right to strike against the public safety") or the Boston Police for fighting for fair pay and better working conditions?

C and E block- WWI Test Study guide!

The Chapter 19/WWI Test is Monday, December 1 in class on google forms and is a 2nd quarter summative grade!  The Test is 100% notes-based, other than a map section based on the Alliance System.  Class notes for this unit were based on Chapter 19 of "The Americans" textbook.  Textbooks can be borrowed any time from 2216!  Also, the links to the textbook are shared each class block and on this review sheet!  The test contains 28 multiple choice and 6 short open response questions in CP1. The CP2 test has 31 Multiple Choice and 3 open response.  For multiple choice, choose the best answer!  If you need to, eliminate wrong answers to find the best answer!  For open response, write a logical response to the question using a specific historical example discussed in our class to prove you know.  Cheating in any form is prohibited.  This test judges what you know on test day.  Test corrections will be allowed after grading is complete, so no need to cheat or plagiarize anyway!  Also, test corrections should decrease the test anxiety!  Once the test is graded, Mr. Cook will "release the grade and comments", and you will be sent an email (from google forms which gives feedback on manually entered point deductions).  Mr. Cook will also tell the students that the email has been sent in class once they are all done.  See Mr. Cook at an appropriate time for studying help also as Multiple Choice questions do not offer feedback.    Multiple choice and open response questions are based on notes but also on the course essential questions below!  

The test is based on class notes and class notes are based on the Americans textbook.

Chapter 19 Section 1

Jeanette Rankin (page 578)

Essential Question #7- Where does the drive for Expansion come from and what is its impact on America and the rest of the world? The strange balance of US imperialism and Isolationism/neutrality (page 578)

Militarism (page 579)

Alliance System (page 579-580)

Nationalism (page 579)

Imperialism (page 579)

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand (page 580)

Allied Powers (page 579)

Central Powers (page 580)

Trench warfare (page 582)

Essential Question #9- How has the rise of Mass Media influenced and transformed Culture? Unrestricted submarine warfare and the Lusitania (page 584)

Zimmerman Note (page 585)

Chapter 19 Section 2

Selective Service Act (page 588)

Convoy system (page 589)

Essential Question #10- How have advances in Technology impacted the development of the country and the American people? Machine Guns and new weapons of WWI (page 590)

Veterans Day (19.2 Notes)

Memorial Day (19.2 Notes)

Labor Day (19.2 Notes)

Essential Question #6- How have the Costs of War affected the development of America?

Chapter 19 Section 3

Essential Question #5- How does the drive to acquire Wealth influence America? Women working in factories during WWI! (Page 600)

Eugene Debs and the Espionage and Sedition Acts (Page 598)

The Great Migration (Page 599)

The Flu Epidemic of 1919 (Page 601)

Chapter 19 Section 4

14 Points (Page 605)

Essential Question #11- (Civic Identity)- Should the US be involved in the League of Nations (a world peace group) or not?  Explain! (Page 605)

Treaty of Versailles (Page 606)

-Germany (not invited and War Guilt clause!)

-Russia (Not invited and Communist!)