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Things you should do to prepare for the FInal--



1) Read through the chapters.  No, you do not need to re-read every word.  Re-familliarize yourself.

2) Work through the end of the chapter questions

3) Read and work through the "Telescoping the Chapter" Packets

4) Play all of the games and quizzes on this website at least 4 times each

5) Work through the information presented on the pink sheet

6) Form a study group and study together.

7) Make and use flashcards

8) Talk through the infomration with someone else.  Parents are great for this!

9) Re-Work the games and quizzes on the regular website.


Questions you should be able to answer:

Chapter 14-16
*Why was Plessy v. Ferguson an important court case?
*What is Social Darwinism?
*What is mass production?  Why is it important?  How is Henry Ford related to it?
*How did Carnegie and Rockefeller make money?  What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

Chapter 17
*What are the three most important ideas from chapter 17?
*What is the NAACP?  Who is in it, what are their goals?  What do they want out of life?
*Who is TR?  Why is he important?  What did he stand for?
*Susan B. Anthony?

Chapter 18
*Why is Panama important? Yellow Journalism? San Juan Hill?
*What is the USS Maine?  What is significant about it?
*What is the Open Door policy?

Chapter 19
*What were the uinderlying causes of WWI?
*What were the sides of WWI?  Who did the US side with?
*What are the 14 points?
*What were the weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles?
*Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?  Why is he important?
*What was the League of Nations?  What were its strengths and weaknesses?

Chapters 20-21
*What was the Harlem Renaissance?
*Why was the economic prosperity of the 1920s
*Why was "Returning to Normalcy" a popular goal?
*What were the controverisies associated with Prohibition?

Chapters 22-23
*How did the economic trends of the 1920s contribute to the Great Depression?
*What caused the stock market crash of 1929?
*How did labor conditions improve during the 1920s?
*What was the New Deal, why was it new and different?
*What were the similarities and difference between FDR and Hoover?

Chapter 24
*What were conditions like in Europe after WWI?  How did those conditions help the rise of dictators?
*How did Hitler, Mussolini,and Stalin rise to power?
*WHY did NAzi persecute the groups they persecuted?
*Reasons for American isolationism after WWI and during the beginning of WWII?
*What was the Lend-Lease Plan?  Why was it controversial?
My Quia activities and quizzes
Chapters 20-21 Review work
https://www.quia.com/jg/236083.html
Chapter 22 and 23 Review
https://www.quia.com/jg/228060.html
Chapter 24 Final Review
https://www.quia.com/hm/74059.html
Final Review--General Session
https://www.quia.com/rr/29511.html
Final--Gen. Session, Part II
https://www.quia.com/rr/29512.html
Final Review--Mini Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/227453.html
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