TABE REVIEW COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Prohibition
Answer: 18th amendment: a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and
transportation of liquor throughout the United States. 1919-1933 --
ends with 21st amendment
◉ Social Reformers
Answer: Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, and Jacob Riis --tried to
improve lives of poor, underserved in society
◉ Womens suffrage
Answer: the right of women to vote W/ 19th amendment in 1920
◉ Seneca Falls Convention
Answer: Took place in Upstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages
and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of
women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, tried to get
women rights for women, especially the right to vote.
◉ Scopes Trial
, Answer: 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of
evolution against teaching Bible creationism
◉ World War One
Answer: War fought because Germany was interfering with
American freedom of the seas.
◉ Herbert Hoover
Answer: became president in 1928, just before the onset of the Great
Depression; blamed for the market crash; actions taken were
criticized as too little too late
◉ Great Depression
Answer: the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash
in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
◉ WPA
Answer: Congress created the Works Progress Administration in
1935-- spent $11 billion on federal works projects and provided
employment for 8.5 million persons. They built roads, bridges,
schools, etc., but the also funded projects for thespians, artists,
writers, and young people.
◉ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Prohibition
Answer: 18th amendment: a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and
transportation of liquor throughout the United States. 1919-1933 --
ends with 21st amendment
◉ Social Reformers
Answer: Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, and Jacob Riis --tried to
improve lives of poor, underserved in society
◉ Womens suffrage
Answer: the right of women to vote W/ 19th amendment in 1920
◉ Seneca Falls Convention
Answer: Took place in Upstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages
and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of
women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, tried to get
women rights for women, especially the right to vote.
◉ Scopes Trial
, Answer: 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of
evolution against teaching Bible creationism
◉ World War One
Answer: War fought because Germany was interfering with
American freedom of the seas.
◉ Herbert Hoover
Answer: became president in 1928, just before the onset of the Great
Depression; blamed for the market crash; actions taken were
criticized as too little too late
◉ Great Depression
Answer: the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash
in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
◉ WPA
Answer: Congress created the Works Progress Administration in
1935-- spent $11 billion on federal works projects and provided
employment for 8.5 million persons. They built roads, bridges,
schools, etc., but the also funded projects for thespians, artists,
writers, and young people.
◉ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
