Wolf – AHC U.S. History 108 Exam #1 – Fill-in Section terms (100 terms, 1 pt each = 100 pts)
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Election of 1876
15th Amendment
Electric Lightbulb
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
American Anti-Imperialist League
Ford’s Theater
American Federation of Labor
Fort Sumter
Anaconda Plan
Freedmen’s Bureau
Andrew Carnegie
General Weyler
Andrew Johnson
Geronimo
Appomattox
Gettysburg Address
Assassination of Lincoln
Ghost Dance
Battle of Antietam
Gilded Age
Battle of First Bull Run/Manassas
Grandfather Clause
Battle of Gettysburg
Great Railroad Strike
Battle of Little Bighorn
Haymarket Riot
Battle of San Juan Hill
Homestead Act
Black Codes
Homestead Strike
Boxer Rebellion
Horizontal Integration
Burning of Richmond
Hull House
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Imperialism
Central Pacific Railroad
James Garfield
Chinese Exclusion Act
Jane Addams
Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow laws
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Rockefeller
Credit Mobilier Scandal
John Wilkes Booth
Cuban Revolution
Joseph Pulitzer
Dawes Act
JP Morgan
De Lome Letter
Joshua Chamberlain
Ku Klux Klan
Segregation
Knights of Labor
Sharecropping
Literacy tests
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Little Round Top
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Maine Explosion
Sioux
Monopoly
Spanish-American War
Mother Jones
Standard Oil
Open Door Policy
Steel
Platt Amendment
Teddy Roosevelt
Plessy v. Ferguson
Terrence Powderly
Pickett’s Charge
Thaddeus Stevens
Pinkertons
Thomas Edison
Poll taxes
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Pullman Strike
Transcontinental Railroad
Queen Liliuokalani
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Radical Reconstruction
Trusts
Radical Republicans
Union Pacific Railroad
Reconcentrado Policy
Ulysses S. Grant
Redeemer Governments
Vertical Integration
Robber Barons
White Man’s Burden
Robert E. Lee
William McKinley
Rough Riders
William Randolph Hearst
Rutherford Hayes
Wilson-Gorman Tariff
Samuel Gompers
Wounded Knee Massacre
Scabs
Yellow Journalism
Settlement Houses
Wolf – AHC U.S. History 108 Exam– Short Essay Questions study guide
You will respond to two of the following essay prompts, as determined by rolling the dice (50
points each = 100 points total).
You will be graded on both the historical accuracy of your essay responses as well as the
quantity and quality of your supportive EVIDENCE (concrete/specific details and examples).
Each essay should be thoroughly developed to effectively answer the questions. Each essay
should include an introduction (with a clear thesis statement), a main body with sufficient
examples and concrete details to support your arguments, and a conclusion.
1. To what extent was Reconstruction a success or failure? Be sure to discuss the government’s plans
for Reconstruction, the ways in which those plans were implemented, and the long-term successes
or failures of those plans.
2. Evaluate the extent to which industrialization transformed the United States in both positive and
negative ways in the decades following the Civil War. Be sure to discuss things like living and working
conditions, social class, the role of women, the growth of cities, and the emergence of labor
movements.
3. Summarize the evolution of labor movements during the decades following the Civil War. Be sure to
discuss the reasons why labor unions emerged during this time, to what extent labor unions were
successful or unsuccessful, the ways that business owners and the government responded to the
labor movements, and discuss both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
specifically.
4. Explain the specific reasons why the United States ended up acquiring an empire at the end of the
1800s, and evaluate the arguments that existed at the time in favor of and against the policy of
imperialism.
5. Evaluate the U.S. government’s approach to managing the Native American tribes in the decades
following the Civil War. To what extent did the U.S. succeed in “assimilating” Native Americans by
the end of the 1800s?