1. SOCIAL STUDIES Fifth Grade – Week Three

2.  What two inventions were developed by Thomas Edison?

3.  The phonograph and the light bulb

4.  Who invented the first successful powered “flying machine” capable of transporting a passenger?

5.  The Wright Brothers

6.  Who encouraged President Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb?

7.  Albert Einstein

8.  What company was eventually created due to Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb?

9.  The General Electric Corporation in the 1890’s

10.  What was the formula developed by Albert Einstein that led to the development of the atomic bomb?

11.  E = MC 2

12.  Why were many immigrants “pushed” away from their homelands?

13.  They wanted to escape religious persecution, poverty, and war.

14.  What was the result of the rapid growth of industry in U.S. cities?

15.  There was a need for more labor in the cities which led to urbanization.

16.  Why didn’t more immigrants take advantage of the free land in the west?

17.  They were too poor to pay for the trip out west.

18.  How did “Big Business” effect immigration?

19.  Big business encouraged the U.S. government to continue an open immigration policy because immigrants were a source of very cheap labor.

20.  Why did so many farmers have to move to cities to find jobs in factories?

21.  New farm equipment made farming easier and crops more plentiful, so there was less of a demand for the crops. Farmers began losing their farms since they could pay their debts.

22.  Where did most of the first immigrants to America come from?

23.  They were mostly from England, Ireland, and Germany.

24.  What was the difference in the religious beliefs of the new immigrants who came in the early 1900’s?

25.  They were mainly Catholics and Jews whereas most who came in the 1800’s were Protestants.

26.  What were some of the resistance immigrants faced from native- born Americans?

27.  Americans thought the immigrants were corrupt, thought they were going to take their jobs, and didn’t understand how the worshipped (Catholics and Jews)

28.  What movement in the late 19th century denied people the right to buy and drink alcohol?

29.  The Temperance Movement

30.  What were three major concerns that resulted from so many people moving to the cities (urbanization)?

31. 1. Availability of alcohol 2. Factories with unsafe conditions 3. Organized crime

32.  Name the “Progressive Presidents” and why they were called that?

33.  Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. All three fought to improve conditions for workers in factories.

34.  What were the 18 th and 21 st Amendments?

35.  18 th Amendment:  Outlawed the sale and manufacture of alcohol; however, it could not stop drinking and promoted many illegal activities  21 st Amendment:  Repealed by the 18 th Amendment

36.  How was the United States viewed after the Spanish-American War?

37.  As a “world power”

38.  Which two oceans were joined by the Panama Canal which contributed to America’s commercial and military might and to its image as a world power?

39.  The Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans

40.  Before the beginning of World War I, a war in which the U.S. entered reluctantly, American foreign policy was to do what?

41.  Remain neutral and uninvolved in European politics