HISTORY 1302: EXAM ONE
STUDY GUIDE
Describe the following persons:
W.E.B. Du Bois
Samuel Clemens
Andrew Carnegie
Susan B. Anthony
Thomas Alva Edison
J. Pierpoint Morgan
Frederick Jackson Turner
Horatio Alger
Jane Addams
John D. Rockefeller
Alexander Graham Bell
Booker T. Washington
Samuel Gompers
Define the following terms:
Industrialization
Interstate Commerce Commission
Horizontal Integration
Trusts
Fourteenth Amendment
Sharecropping
Exodusters
Rough Riders
Homestead Act
Immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Jim Crow laws
Populist Party
Urbanization
Segregation
The Jungle
Knights of Labor
Homestead Strike
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Oscala Demands
Spanish- American War
Yellow Press
Open Door Notes
Roosevelt Corollary
Progressivism
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
“talented tenth”
Suburbanization
Prohibition
Smoked Yankees
Imperialism
NAACP
“Splendid Little War”
New Nationalism
“Muckrakers”/Muckraking
Women’s Suffrage
Hull House
Flappers
Dollar Diplomacy
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. Why were time zones established?
2. How did government policies affect Native Americans during the expansion
Westward?
3. Why did many Chinese immigrate to America in the nineteenth century?
4. Explain the impact the railroad had on nineteenth century America?
5. Discuss some of the new inventions of the nineteenth century and how they
changed aspects of everyday life?
6. What was life like for blacks during their transition from the Era of
Reconstruction to the beginnings of the Industrial Age?
7. Discuss how industrialization affected skilled labor in the nineteenth century.
8. How did industrialization promote urbanization? Explain how urbanization led to
the emergence of the suburbs?
9. Describe the various reform movements that were created out of necessity,
opportunity, etc.
10. Did Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Du Bois adapt the same philosophy with
regard to the status and future of blacks in America?