Cause and Effect in Social Studies
Cause
Effect
Why did it
happen?
What
happend?
reason
factors
contributed to / contributing factor
led to / led directly to
because of
influence
in order to
prompted
why
impact
resulted in / a result of / direct result
consequence
affected
accounted for
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As a result of the Oregon Treaty, the United States achieved its goal of These acts (listed in a box) contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by The factors listed above contributed most to Which of the following was a primary reason France sought to colonize North
America?
Which of the following was the most direct result of the environmental modifications
listed above?
What effect did the mining technique described in the excerpt have on the local
environment?
Which factor most encouraged the growth of this (transatlantic) trade?
How did the plantation system influence the economic development of the United
States?
Which economy and contributing factor best completes this table?
Why did the economies of western territories develop so differently from the
economies of the northeast and South?
How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization?
How did the War of 1812 affect the US economy?
Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to –
Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in
the mid-1800s?
What led to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?
What was a major impact of this novel (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)?
The Bessemer steel process affected westward expansion in the United States by
enabling –
How did Samuel Morse’s best-known innovation contribute to U.S. growth and
development?
The introduction of interchangeable parts led directly to the –
Which of these was an effect of the Industrial Revolution on US women in the early
nineteenth century?