6th Grade American History Based on E.D. Hirsch's "What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know These questions are copyright 1997 Karen Crowther and are not endorsed nor sponsored by the Core Curriculum Foundation nor E.D. Hirsch. They are brought to you as a public service by Redwood Games (http://www.maui.net/~redwood/hs.html) You may use them for personal use provided you do not remove this notice and provided you do not distribute them. AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #1 ============================= Read p 150-155 Who were on the side of the Allies in the Great War (World War I)? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ Who were on the side of the Central Powers? 1._________________________ When did WWI start? _________________ When did the U.S. enter the war? ____________________ What new weapons were used in WWI? 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________ 4.___________________ 5.___________________ 6.___________________ Which was the deadliest weapon? __________________________ What was the result of this deadly weapon on the course of the war? ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ What reasons did the Americans have for sympathizing with the Allies? 1.___________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________________________________ What 2 events got the U.S. into the war? 1.___________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What did the English call the German submarines? _______________ Who was the U.S. president who asked Congress to declare war on Germany?______________________________________________ What did he say? _________________________________________________________ Who ruled Russia? _______________________________________________________ What happened in Russia in 1917? ________________________________________ What group came to power 8 months after the revolution? __________________ Whose writings did they follow? _________________________________________ What was their economic theory called? __________________________________ Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks? ________________________ What did the Bolsheviks rename Russia as? ________________________________ What is a soviet? ________________________________________________________ What did Lenin promise the Russian peasants? ______________________________ ____________________________________________ What did Lenin do about the war with Germany? _____________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #2 ============================= Read p 155-159 Why did an American officer in France say, "Lafayette, we are here."? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What happened after the U.S. sent troops to France to fight Germany? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What treaty ended WWI? ________________________________________________ What did the treaty force the Germans to do? 1. __________________________________________________________________________ 2. __________________________________________________________________________ What organization did the Treaty of Versailles set up? ______________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Who came up with the idea for the League of Nations? ________________________ _________________________________________________ Did the U.S. join the League of Nations? Why or why not? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ In what ways did the U.S. show its isolationism? 1.__________________________________________________________________________ 2.__________________________________________________________________________ What groups did the Ku Klux Klan attack? 1.________________________________ 2._______________________________ 3._______________________________ What modern conveniences did most American homes have in the 1220's? 1.________________________________ 2._______________________________ 3._______________________________ 4._______________________________ When were gasoline powered cars first sold? ______________ Who made cars affordable for most people? ____________________ What was the first affordable car? _____________________________ When was the first affordable car sold? ______________________ What idea did Henry Ford come up with that revolutionized manufacturing? __________________________________________________________________ At the end of the 1920s what industry employed more people than any other? _________________________________________ What were airplanes like in the 1920s? _____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ What two brothers pioneered airplane flight in the early 1900s? __________________________________________________________________ Who flew from New York to France in 1927? ___________________________________ How long did it take him? ____________________________ What nickname did people give him after his flight? _________________________ What was the name of his plane? _______________________________________ What woman flew across the Atlantic in 1932? ________________________________ What happened to her? ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #3 ============================= Read p 159-163 What was a family activity in the 1920s? __________________________________ What were movies like in the 1920s? ______________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who was a famous comic actor? _____________________________________ What character did he play? _________________________________________ What were the 1920s sometimes called? _______________________________________ Were the 20's prosperous or hard times? ____________________________ When was the sale of alcohol outlawed in the U.S.? ________________ What was the movement against drinking alcohol called? ______________________ _____________________________________ What were the times when alcohol was banned called? _________________________ How long was alcohol banned? __________ to ___________________ What amendment banned alcohol? __________________ What amendment repealed Prohibition? ______________________ What were illegal bars called? _______________________________________ What were the people who supplied illegal drink called? _____________________ When did women win the right to vote in the U.S.? _______________ What were the women who frequented speakeasies called? _______________________ In what part of the U.S. were new industries most successful after WWI? ____________________ Why did many African-Americans move north? 1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ What two cities were popular destinations for southern African-Americans? 1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ What neighborhood in New York became a center of African-American culture? _______________________________ Who argued that American blacks should create a free black nation in Africa? ____________________________________ What was the Harlem Renaissance? __________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Name 2 poets of the Harlem Renaissance? 1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ What African-American painter painted scenes of Harlem life? __________________________________ Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"? ___________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #4 ============================= Read p 163-166 up to "The New Deal" What event took place in the 1930's that changed the economic life of the people?________________________________________________ What were the causes of the Great Depression? 1.______________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ 3._____________________________________________________________________ When did the stock market crash? _____________________ Note: Not only were people speculating in the stock market (gambling that the prices would go higher) but they were buying their stocks "on the margin" which meant that they were borrowing money to pay for them. So when a stock dropped in price, the person who borrowed the money had to come up with the loan quickly. That was what started the panic selling. What did people do that made the stock market crash? 1. ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________________________________________ What was the stock market crash called? ____________________________________ What percentage of people lost their jobs in the Great Depression? ________ What phrase was heard so often that it became a song title? _______________ _______________________________________________________________________ Who was president during the Great Depression? ___________________________ What did Hoover believe about the government's role in business and helping the unemployed? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Why was Hoover defeated in the 1932 election? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who won the 1932 election? _____________________________________________ What was his plan called? ______________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #5 ============================= Read p 166-171 What did Roosevelt say about fear when he was sworn into office? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What did Roosevelt see as his most important task? ____________________________________________________________________________ What organizations and projects did Roosevelt create? Tell who each employed and what each did. 1.____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What famous bridge was built during the New Deal? __________________________ _____________________________________- What did the people who called the CCC, WPA, and TVA "alphabet soup" think about Roosevelt's programs? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ When was Social Security created? _______________ What was Social Security originally designed to do? 1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ 3.________________________________________________________ What did the Indian Reorganization Act do? 1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ 3.________________________________________________________ When did a terrible drought strike the Great Plains? ____________________________________ What states were hit by the drought? 1.________________________ 2.________________________ 3.________________________ 4.________________________ 5.________________________ 6.________________________ What happened to the land in the drought? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What was the drought stricken area of the Great Plains called? ____________ ________________________________________ What did the farmers do? ____________________________________________________ What were the farmers called? _________________________________ What book did John Steinbeck write about the Dust Bowl? ___________________________________________________________ Who was the only man elected to be president 4 times? _______________________________________________ What were the fireside chats? ________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who didn't like Roosevelt and his policies? Why not? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who did like Roosevelt and his policies? Why? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What illness befell Roosevelt and what happened to him? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who was Roosevelt's wife and for what was she known? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #6 ============================= Read p 171-174 up to "Should America Fight" What was the economic situation in Europe during the Great Depression? ____________________________________________________________________________ How many people were out of work in Germany in the 30s? _________________ Who came into power in Germany in 1933? ____________________________________ What kind of ruler was Hitler? _____________________________________________ What political party did Hitler lead? ______________________________________ What happened to the other German political parties? ________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Why were the German people bitter? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What did Hitler call his new era? __________________________________________ Hitler wanted his empire to be bigger than which two previous empires? 1.____________________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________________ What was one Nazi slogan? ____________________________________________________ While Roosevelt was putting the Americans to work making roads, dams and buildings, what was Hitler putting the Germans to work doing? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What negative technique did Hitler use to encourage German pride? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who did Hitler blame for Germany's problems? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What were the so-called Aryans? ____________________________________________ What did Hitler do to the Jews? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What year did Hitler start his world conquest? _________ What were the first countries Hitler conquered? 1._______________________________________________ 2._______________________________________________ What caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany? ____________________________________________________________________________ What did the Germans call their style of fighting? _________________________ What did that mean? ______________________________________ What countries did Germany conquer in April of 1940? 1._______________________________________________ 2._______________________________________________ What countries did Germany conquer next in 1940? 1._______________________________________________ 2._______________________________________________ 3._______________________________________________ Why was it difficult for Hitler to conquer England? ____________________________________________________________________________ What did Hitler do to England in an attempt to get them to surrender? ____________________________________________________________________________ Who was the prime minister of England during this time? _____________________ ____________________________ Quote what the prime minister said about England's resolve not to surrender: ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #7 ============================= Read p 174-177 What was the attitude called that made most Americans not want to fight in Europe?_______________________________ What did Roosevelt say in favor of joining the war? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What two things did FDR do in response to the war even though the U.S. was not fighting? 1.____________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________ What event caused the U.S. to enter WW II?___________________________________ __________________________________________________ Who did Japan invade in 1937? ___________________________ Who led the Chinese against the Japanese? _______________________________________ When did Japan ally with Germany? ______________ What region did Japan occupy in the summer of 1941?___________________________ What modern countries are in this region? _____________ and ________________ What did FDR do? ___________________________________________________________ Where did Japan attack the U.S.? ____________________________________________ What date did Japan attack the U.S.? ______________________________________ What does the solid red circle on the Japanese plans stand for? ____________ _____________________________________ What did Roosevelt say about December 7, 1941? ______________________________ ________________________________________________________ What did Congress do then? ___________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #8 ============================= Read p 177-180 Who were the Axis countries? 1.__________________________ 2.__________________________ 3.__________________________ Who were the Allied countries? 1.__________________________ 2.__________________________ 3.__________________________ 4.__________________________ Who ruled Italy? _______________________________________ What was his political party called? _____________________________ Who led the Free French? _______________________________________ What were the french people who were fighting against the Germans occupying France called? _____________________________________ Were all of America's allies democracies? ___________ Who was the head of Russia? ______________________________ What kind of leader was he? ________________________ What deal did Hitler sign with the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war? __________________________________________ What did it let both countries do? _________________________________ What happened to Poland? ___________________________________________ What happened in 1941 that caused the Soviet Union to join the Allies? ________________________________________________________ What did the Soviets do to thousands of Poles? _______________________ When the U.S. entered the war, what places were the Germans fighting? 1.______________________________________ 2.______________________________________ What countries did Japan conquer? 1.______________________________________ 2.______________________________________ 3.______________________________________ 4.______________________________________ 5.______________________________________ Why were both the Germans and Japanese able to be so cruel to other humans? ____________________________________________________________________________ What was Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish question"? ____________________________________________________________________________ Where were Jews and others sent? _________________________________________ What happened to the people in the camps? __________________________________ What is the mass murder of the Jews known as? ________________________________ What does this word mean? __________________________________ What is it called when one tries to kill all the people of one race or culture? _______________________________________________ How many Jews were killed by the Nazis? ____________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #9 ============================= Read p 180-183 What strategy did Roosevelt and Churchill come up with against the Germans? ___________________________________________________________________________ What country did the Germans invade in the summer of 1942? __________________ What is the old name and the new name for Russia's largest city in 1942?________________________________ and _________________________________ Why did the German forces in Stalingrad, Russia surrender in February of 1943? ______________________________________________________________________ What U.S. territory island did the Japanese attack in 1942? __________________ Who won? _______________________________________________________ What was "island hopping" in WWII? ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What did the citizens of the U.S. do to help the war effort? 1.__________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________ Who was Rosie the Riveter? _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #10 ============================= Read p 183-186 What was the Internment of the Japanese-Americans? _________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #11 ============================= Read p 186-188 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #12 ============================= Read p 188-191 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #13 ============================= Read p 191-193 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #14 ============================= Read p 193-195 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #15 ============================= Read p 195-197 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #16 ============================= Read p 197-200 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #17 ============================= Read p 200-202 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #18 ============================= Read p 202-206 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #19 ============================= Read p 206-209 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #20 ============================= Read p 209-212 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #21 ============================= Read p 213-215 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #22 ============================= Read p 215-217 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #23 ============================= Read p 217-219 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #24 ============================= Read p 219-222 AMERICAN HISTORY 6 ASSIGN. #25 ============================= Read p 222-226