Academic US Midterm Review
Directions: identify the terms below. Pretend I am over your shoulder asking you why we studied this.
What EFFECT did the following terms have on history?
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Popular sovereignty
3. The Civil War and slavery
4. Advantages/disadvantages of the North and South during the Civil War
5. Dates of the Civil War
6. Civil War amendments
7. Emancipation Proclamation
8. President Lincoln
9. Culture of Plains Indians
10. Transcontinental RR
11. Major Battles of the Civil War (we did a map on this)
12. Sitting Bull & Battle of Wounded Knee
13. General Custer and Battle of the little Big Horn
14. Oklahoma Land Race
15. Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution
16. 1st Vs 2nd wave Immigrants
17. Ellis Island
18. Emma Lazarus
19. Thomas Edison
20. Wright Bros
21. Alexander Graham Bell
22. Henry Ford
23. Edwin Drake
24. Imperialism
25. Start of Spanish American War and Yellow Journalism
26. Results of Spn-Am War
27. Map of Spn-Am War
28. TR (as Rough Rider & president)
29. McKinley’s assassination
30. Coal Strike of 1902
31. TR’s greatest accomplishments
32. WWI – dates, different names of WWI
33. Woodrow Wilson
34. Zimmerman Telegraph
35. Conscription
36. Allies vs Central Powers
37. Sedition Act
38. Russian Revolution
39. Veteran’s Day
40. Nations created as a result of WWI, why?
41. Treaty of Versailles
42. 16-19th Amendments
43. Harlem Renaissance
44. Prohibition
45. Flappers
46. Political radicals of the 1920s – groups
47. Scopes Trial
48. Innovations of the 1920s – make a list and tell me what the result was
49. FDR’s 1st action as president
50. The New Deal
51. SSA
52. Fireside Chats
53. CCC
54. FDIC
55. SEC
56. WPA
57. Supporters of FDR and the New Deal
58. Great Depression (dates too)
59. Worst year of Depression (unemployment was highest)
60. Government work projects during the Depression
61. 100 Days
62. Minimum wage established
63. Hoovervilles
64. Dustbowl
65. James J. Braddock
66. Historical event which ended the Depression
67. Eleanor Roosevelt
68. Alice Paul
69. Winston Churchill
70. Dorothea Lange
71. Charles Lindbergh
Hints: You will have an essay. Be prepared to respond in proper multiple paragraph form to the
following:
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Women’s rights movement and the 19th amendment (Alice Paul, organizations)
The Great War and why it was senseless
FDR’s admin during the Great Depression
US involvement in WWII, major battles, and how WWII ended