AP U.S. History Review (Spring Semester) Part 1 of 3
The Industrial Era: 1876-1900
The Rise and Development of Industrialism in America
1) Andrew Carnegie
2) John D. Rockefeller
3) William H. Vanderbilt
4) J.P. Morgan
The Era of Rapid Capital Accumulation
5) Social Darwinism
6) Horatio Alger
7) Russell Conwell’s “Acres of Diamonds”
8) Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”
9) Labor Unions and Labor Strikes
10) National Labor Union
11) Knights of Labor
12) American Federation of Labor (AFL)
13) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Causes and Effects of the Major Strikes
14) Railroad Strike of 1877
15) Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 (Chicago)
16) The Homestead Strike of 1892 (Pennsylvania)
17) The Pullman Strike of 1894
18) The Supreme Court, Congress, and State Legislatures Weigh In
19) The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
20) United States v. E.C. Knight Company
Postwar Politics and the Populists: 1870’s-1896
21) The “soft” vs. “hard” money supply debate
The Growth of Discontent: Farmers Organize
22) Munn v. Illinois (1877)
23) Illinois v. Wabash (1886)
24) The Populist Party
U.S. Foreign Affairs From 1860 to 1914
25) U.S. Policy Towards Native Americans Following the Civil War
a) Assimilation
b) The Dawes-Severalty Act
26) The Purchase of Alaska
27) Methods Adopted by the U.S. to Achieve Its Imperialistic Goals
a) Formal Imperialism
i)
Hawaii
ii) Guam
iii) Puerto Rico
b) Informal Imperialism
i)
Open-Door Policy
28) Ideological Justifications for an American Imperialist Policy
a) Alfred T. Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
b) Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
c) Religious justifications
i)
Josiah Strong
d) Social Darwinism
29) Opponents of American Imperialism
30) U.S. Foreign Relations in East Asia and the Pacific
31) The Spanish-American War (1898)
a) DeLome Letter
b) Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
c) Foraker Act (1900)
d) Insular Cases
e) Cuba
32) U.S. Foreign Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean
a) Roosevelt Corollary
b) Dollar Diplomacy
The Progressive Era: 1900-1920
33) Early Twentieth-Century Progressives
a) Social Gospel
b) Muckrakers
34) Reforming Local and State Political Systems
a) Tammany Hall, Tweed’s “Ring”, Thomas Nast
b) City (municipal) reforms
c) State reforms
d) Wisconsin’s Senator Robert La Follette
35) Reform Under Republican Presidents
a) Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1908)
i)
Elkins Act (1903)
ii) Northern Securities v United States (1904)
iii) Hepburn Act (1906)
iv) Pure Food and Drug Act
v) Meat Inspection Act
b) William Howard Taft (1909-1912)
i)
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
c) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1920)
i)
Underwood Tariff (1913)
ii) Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
iii) Federal Trade Commission
iv) Federal Reserve Act (1916)
v) Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916)
vi) Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
36) Republican Party Splits Over the Following Issues
a) Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
b) Ballinger-Pinchot controversy (1910)
c) Taft’s antitrust suit against U.S. Steel (1911)
37) Election of 1912
38) Progressives and the Supreme Court
a) Lochner v. New York (1905)
b) Muller v. Oregon (1908)
c) Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
39) Constitutional Amendments during the Progressive Era
a) Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
b) Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
c) Eighteenth Amendment (1919)
d) Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
40) The Women’s Rights Movement
a) Margaret Sanger
b) Alice Paul
41) The Socialist Challenge
a) Eugene Debs
b) Socialist ideas
42) Black Americans and the Progressive Movement
a) Booker T. Washington
b) W.E.B. Du Bois
c) Marcus Garvey
43) The End of the Progressive Era: Success or Failure?