SOCIAL STUDIES

II-TERM EXAM
6TH GRADE

Recognizes and explains the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment for women.
1. Which piece of evidence supports the idea that the women’s rights movement made progress
before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed?
A. Some served as nurses in hospitals in France.
B. When men went to fight; women took over their jobs at home.
C. Women in 15 states were electing representatives to Congress.
D. Women could not vote unless the men allowed it.

Identifies and explains the most important inventions during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
2. Which new invention helped to make the United States a world economic power in the early 1900s?
A. Water power.
B. The phonograph.
C. Moving pictures.
D. The automobile.

Identifies and explains the most important inventions during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
3. What contribution did inventor Samuel Morse make to everyday life?
A. His steel plow helped farmers work with the western soil.
B. His streetcar increased the speed and ease of transportation.
C. His assembly line changed the speed and efficiency of production.
D. His telegraph allowed people to communicate over long distances.
Identifies the reasons of migration to America between 1880 and 1920.
Read the following text, then answer the question.
“The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the
19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater
economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious
freedom.”

4. Why did so many immigrants come to the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
A. They read about gold and oil and came to become rich.
B. They wanted to make money quickly and return to their country.
C. They were escaping oppression and hard times in their home countries.
D. They wished to learn about American industries and then take this knowledge back home.

Describes the life of immigrants in the United States between 1880 and 1920.
5. Look at the image. Then answer the question.

Which option best describes the life of immigrants in the United States between 1880 and 1920?
A. They lived with their families and in big places.
B. They lived among the great diversity of immigrants who came to America.
C. They lived with all the conditions needed to have a good life.
D. They lived in poor conditions in city tenements.
Describes the problems raised by the growing industries in cities.
6. Look at the image. Then answer the question.

Which option best describes the problems raised by the industries in the cities?
A. The factories control the entire industry and cities.
B. The factories transport products by train to cities in the East.
C. The process of making products has led to air pollution.
D. The plants manufacture goods that are exported overseas.

Explains how the work of the progressives affected the lives of worker in United States.
Observe the image, then answer the question.
7. Which answer choice BEST describes the effects of the rapid growth of cities and industry
during this period?
A. The costs of rapid growth were very small, and almost everyone ignored them.
B. The costs of rapid growth became so great that many cities put limits on new factories.
C. Growth benefited many people, including the millions of immigrants who came to the
United States. But growth had costs, such as pollution and overcrowding of cities.
D. The rapid growth of industry in the cities led to the collapse of American farming, as
almost all farmers moved into the cities to work in factories.

Describes the rise of the labor movement as a response to difficulties faced by American workers.
8. What conclusion can be drawn about trusts that controlled industries in the early 1900s?
A. The first progressives were the trust owners.
B. When a new trust formed, working conditions improved.
C. Trusts protected children against harsh working conditions.
D. As trusts grew larger; less attention was paid to the worker.

Identifies and describes ways segregation limited opportunities for African Americans.
9. Look at the graph, read the text and then answer the question.
“A bar graph showing immigration quotas in 1924. Northwest Europe and Scandinavia had a quota of
about 85 percent. Eastern and Southern Europe had a quota of about 10 percent. Australia, Africa, the
Middle East, and Asia had a quota of about 2 percent.”

What conclusion can you draw from this data?

A. European immigrants no longer felt drawn to the United States.
B. The United States was trying to severely limit immigration from Eastern Europe and Asia.
C. Immigrants from western European countries were taking many jobs away from Americans.
D. Immigration from the countries whose cultures were very different from that of the United States
was being restricted.

Compares how women’s roles differed and remained the same between mid-late 1800s and 1900-
1925.
10. Look at the image. Then answer the question.

Which option best compares how women’s roles differed and remained the same between mid-late
1800s and 1900-1925?

A. Goods in department stores were very expensive. Most of them were imported from Europe and
the workers were mainly women.
B. The employees of the store had been wealthy. An economic downturn in the first decade of the
1900s forced many women to work.
C. The owners of these department stores were part of a large trust. Workers regularly went on strike,
demanding better working conditions for women.
D. The women working in this department store might have been former maids. New inventions made
household work easier and fewer maids were needed.

Identifies and explains the causes of World War I.

11. What conclusion can be drawn about how World War I was fought?
A. New technologies made war even more dangerous.
B. Trenches proved to be a good way to keep soldiers safe.
C. The Allied Powers had stronger strategies for winning battles.
D. Battles were never the same and soldiers did not know what to expect.

Describes the impact of new consumer products and technologies during the 1920s.
12. An impact of new consumer products during 1920s was:
A. Mass production.
B. Supply and demand.
C. Mass consumption.
D. Consumerism.

Identifies and explains the causes and effects of Great Depression.

Read the following text, then answer the questions 13 and 14.
“The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world,
lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall
Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.”
13. A cause of the Great Depression was:
A. Due to the mass consumption people spent too much money that they could not use.
B. The stock market let people with too much money that they didn’t want to invest.
C. The stock market crashed since stocks decreased their values and it affected the economy
D. Harlem Renaissance let African Americans to gain too much power affecting the other groups.

14. What conclusion can be drawn about how the Great Depression progressed?
A. The lack of necessary goods made it worse.
B. Widespread panic made a bad situation worse.
C. It would not have occurred if people had not used credit.
D. Confidence in the economy brought it to an end.

Recognizes and explains the reasons for which Roosevelt created the new deal and how it was
implemented.
15. What was President Roosevelt’s plan for getting the country out of the Great Depression?
A. Social Security.
B. The New Deal.
C. The First Hundred Days.
D. Works Progress Administration.

16. How did Roosevelt implement a plan for getting the country out of the Great Depression?
A. He established programs that would let the farmers plant anywhere.
B. He used the television to talk to the people in the United stated.
C. He passed many laws that were focused on making the people feel secure.
D. He passed many laws that were focused on relief by helping unemployed to get jobs.

Identifies and explains the causes and effects of Great Depression.

17. What economic obstacle faced American farmers in the 1920s?
A. New technology allowed more products to be produced than were needed.
B. There was such a high demand for products that prices for everyday items went up.
C. There were long droughts that killed crops and reduced raw materials coming out of the West.
D. Wages and hours were cut for farmers and factory workers because they were not needed.

Lists New Deal programs, their purposes and the ones that are still in effect today.
18. Which of the agencies created during Roosevelt’s presidency is still in existence?
A. The Civilian Conservation Corps.
B. The Works Progress Administration.
C. The Tennessee Valley Authority.
D. The National Recovery Administration.

Describes the problems on the great plain and the dust bowl.
19. Look at the graph. Then answer the question.

How did the use of credit affect the problem that is shown in the graph?
A. Credit helped the stock market improve because less cash was needed to pay off debts right away.
B. If credit had not been used by so many people, there would not have been a panic to sell off stocks.
C. Those who had used credit to purchase goods were protected from falling stock prices because they
had time to pay off their loans.
D. People who had purchased products on credit rushed to sell off their stocks when the prices started
to fall, making prices fall even more.

Describes the problems on the great plain and the dust bowl.
Observe the image, then answer the question.
20. Which was the main problem in the great plains and the Dust Bowl?
A. Due to the dust storms the farmers had to use other type of technology to work on the lands.
B. Due to the dust storms the farmers had to start planting other types of vegetables to be able to use
their land.
C. Due to the dust storms The farmers couldn’t plant the land anymore so they had to look for other
job opportunities.
D. Due to the dust storms the farmers had to take out of their lands all the dust and it was difficult.