SOCIAL STUDIES

II-TERM EXAM
6TH GRADE
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question from the choices
provided.
Recognizes and explains the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment for women. (questions 1
and 2)
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. In 1914, the United States Congress failed again to pass the amendment giving women the vote.
2. Look at the image. Then answer the question.

What is shown in the picture?

A. Women marching for suffrage.
B. Women supporting abolition.
C. Women fighting for better education.
D. Women running for elected office.
Identifies and explains the most important inventions during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
3. A Venn Diagram with the headings Streetcar and Automobile. In the center of the diagram is the
word Transportation. Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.
Which set of statements correctly completes the graphic organizer?
A. Streetcar: more accidents; Automobile: slower
B. Streetcar: more traffic; Automobile: more repairs
C. Streetcar: more independence; Automobile: less expensive
D. Streetcar: limited destinations; Automobile: more independence
Identifies and explains the most important inventions during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
4. 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.
5. 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. (questions 6 & 7)
6. Look at the image. Then answer the question

Where does the image show an immigrant family is working in?

A. refinery
B. tenement
C. union
D. factory
7 Look at the image. Then answer the question.

What does this picture illustrate?

A. a step in the immigration process at Ellis Island
B. the diversity of immigrants who came to America
C. a reason why many people immigrated to the United States
D. the poor living conditions of immigrants in city tenements
Describes the problems raised by the growing industries in cities.
8. Look at the image. Then answer the question.

What conclusion can you draw about what you see in the picture?
A. This mill is part of a monopoly. One large corporation controls the entire industry.
B. This is a factory located in the West. Its finished products are transported by train to cities in the East.
C. This factory is near a city that provides its workers. The process of making its products has led to air
pollution.
D. This plant manufactures goods that are exported overseas. It has started making more products than
are needed.
Explains the impact of inventions in business.
9. Which of these scenarios was likely in the 1910s?
A. A soldier communicating with his general using Morse Code during a battle.
B. A business owner in New York taking an order and flying his goods to a customer in the West.
C. A doctor taking an electric streetcar from New York to Chicago to attend a medical convention.
D. An entrepreneur in California communicating with a manufacturer in New York and receiving raw
materials by train.

Explains how the work of the progressives affected the lives of worker in United States.
10. Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.
Which statement correctly completes the graphic organizer?
A. abandoned farms and ranches
B. prices for most products dropped
C. urbanization and housing shortages
D. housing was knocked down to build factories

Describes the rise of the labor movement as a response to difficulties faced by American workers.
11. 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.
12. Look at the graph. 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.
13. Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.

Which statement correctly completes the graphic organizer?

A. founded a school for African American girls in Florida
B. founded an organization that defended civil rights in court
C. founded the Chicago Defender which encouraged the Great Migration
D. founded Tuskegee Institute and asked George Washington Carver to teach there
Identifies and explains the causes of World War I.
14. 1. Which statement correctly describes the Central and Allied powers before World War I?
A. The Central Powers were imperialists; the Allied Powers were isolationists.
B. The Central Powers all held nationalist principles, the Allied Powers were strong militarists.
C. Both Central and Allied Powers were imperialist, the Central Powers practiced a policy of militarism.
D. The Allied Powers were militarists and nationalists; the Central Powers were imperialists.
Describes the impact of new consumer products and technologies during the 1920s.
15. What process made it possible for industries to produce more products than were needed?
A. mass production
B. supply and demand
C. mass consumption
D. consumerism
16. What is one of the ways that President Hoover tried to improve the economy during the Great
Depression?
Identifies and explains the causes and effects of Great Depression.
A. He refused to loan money to failing banks.
B. He passed a law against further cutting wages.
C. He made companies cut a certain number of jobs.
D. He urged Congress to put money into building roads and bridges.
Recognizes and explains the reasons for which Roosevelt created the new deal and how it was
implemented.
17. 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
Identifies and explains the causes and effects of Great Depression.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.