U.S. History First Semester Exam Review
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First Six Weeks—Review of U.S. History 1607 to 1877, Manifest Destiny and the American West, Celebrating American
Democracy and Freedom
Second Six Weeks— Celebrating American Democracy and Freedom, The Gilded Age, The Progressive Era
Third Six Weeks--Populism, Imperialism, World War I
Sample Questions—Part I
1. What document was issued on July 4, 1776? _________________
2. The U.S had a revolution against this country when we declared our independence: ______________
3. How many original colonies became our first states? ____________
4. How many stars are on the American flag? ___________ How many stripes?____________
5. Which president was the Father of our Country? ___________________
6. Which President freed the slaves during the Civil War?________________
7. Define manifest destiny: _________________
8. Sort the terms and ideas under the Western topics:
Farmers
Cattlemen
Indians
Mining
Railroads
Soddies, cattle trails, ghost towns, railheads, reservations, Little Big Horn, Homestead Act, barbed wire, Wounded Knee, buffalo,
Promontory Point, Virginia City, Irish and Chinese labor, nomadic, Dawes Act, wanted statehood
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Where did women first get the vote in the West? _______________
Who wrote the thesis saying that the Western experience defines the American character? _____________
Who declared the frontier closed in 1890?________________ Why?_____________________
List 10 Western states: _____________________________________________________________________
Sample Questions—Part II
13. Match the terms:
Federalism
Republic
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
a)each branch of government has its own distinct power
b)each branch of government can check or curb the power of other branches
c)states share power with a strong central government
d)a democracy uses representation of elected officials
14. Match the branches of government:
Legislative
a)interpret the law/courts
Executive
b)writes the law/Congress
Judicial
c)enforces the law/President
15. Match the documents:
a)Declaration of Independence
b)Articles of Confederation
c)Constitution
d)Bill of Rights
a)our “birth certificate”—declared ourselves free from England
b)described our rights—first ten amendments to the Constitution
c)our plan of government with seven articles and 27 amendments
d)our first weak plan of government before the Constitution
16. Match the political ideas:
Radical
Liberal
Moderate
Conservative
Reactionary
a)traditional and slow to change
b)wants immediate and violent change
c)supports change and reform
d)middle road and cautious
e)resists change, often violently
17. Match Alexis De Tocqueville’e five values needed for a successful constitutional republic:
Liberty
a)each person has value
Egalitarianism
b)each person is equal
Individualism
c)the people’s voices must be heard
Laissez-faire
d)freedom for all
Populism
e)the government should not interfere with the rights of the people
18. Match the Gilded Age terms:
Gilded Age
Assembly Line
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Captains of Industry/Robber Barons
Monopoly
Nativism
Laissez-faire
Ellis Island
Melting Pot
Capitalism
Political machine
a)period of industrialization, immigration, urbanization, political corruption
b)total control of a business or industry by a trust
c)political organization used to win elections, often with corrupt ways
d)economic “survival of the fittest”
e)based on the Christian values of helping the less fortunate
f)anti-immigrant attitude of fear and hate
g)free enterprise—economic system of the U.S.
h)“hands off” the economy—little or no government regulation
i)millionaires like Carnegie and Rockefeller
j)Welcome Center for immigrants—near Statue of Liberty in NY Harbor
k)a blending of immigrants in the U.S. creating a typical American
l)efficient method of production using a conveyor belt
19. The Bessemer Process led to the: a)Age of Steel b)Manifest Destiny c)Progressive Era
20. Most immigrants in the late 19th century came to the U.S. from a)Western Europe b)Southern and Eastern Europe c)Asia
21. The Progressive Era was a period of: a)reform b)muckraking c)yellow journalism d)all of these
22. Match the Progressives and issues:
T. Roosevelt
a)meat and food production
Upton Sinclair
b)labor unions
Eugene Debs
c)trust busting
Susan B. Anthony
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Jane Addams
a)suffrage and women’s rights
b)Civil Rights—education
c)founder of NAACP
d)social worker and founder of Hull House for immigrants
Hearst and Pulitzer
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Ford
Ida Wells
a)yellow journalism
b)Populist Pacifist Democratic candidate for President
c)muckraker who exposed lynching issue in the South
d)automobile production industrialist—practiced corporate welfare
23. Match the constitutional changes:
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
a)Freedom for slaves
b)Vote for former male slaves
c)Citizenship for former slaves
d)Senators elected by states
e)Prohibition against alcohol
f)Women’s suffrage (vote/enfranchisement)
g)Income tax
24. Match the Progressive ideas:
Eugenics
Populism
Muckrakers
a)journalists who expose the “dirt” in society
b)Farmers movement against the gold standard—Third Party
c)scientific racism looking for “good genes”
Civil Rights
Civil Service Reform
Initiatives and Referendums
a)efforts to end political corruption after the assassination of President Garfield
b)effort to end Jim Crow segregation and achieve full equality of the races
c)issues voted upon in elections
25. In a setback for Civil Rights, the Supreme Court ruled in the case, Plessy v. Ferguson that races could be “______________
_____ ______________.”
Sample Questions—Part III
26. The U.S. moved from an isolationist country to a world power when we acquired outside territories. We call this the Age of
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27. What war in 1898 was called a “splendid little war” and brought the U.S. an empire? _____________________________
28. Name American possessions in the Pacific by 1900: ________________________________________________
29. Name American possessions in the Caribbean by 1900: _________________________________
30. Who was president during the Spanish-American War (later assassinated)? ____________________________
31. Who was the rough rider and war hero who later built the Panama Canal? _____________________________
32. What was Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy? ______________________________
33. Define Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy: ________________________________________________
34. What is America’s Great White Fleet? ___________________________
35. Admiral Mahan wrote a book that said if the U.S. wanted an empire, it must build a great ________________.
36. Why did the U.S. go to war against Spain? _____________________________
37. What Pacific territory fought the U.S. for several years? __________________________
38. Name the man who overthrew the government of Hawaii for the U.S. to gain it as a territory. ____________________
39. Were these parties for or against imperialism? Republicans ______________ Democrats ______________
40. List the parties for the following presidents:
McKinley __________________T. Roosevelt _______________Taft__________________Wilson__________________
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Which of the above presidents ran as a Third Party Progressive Candidate in 1912? ___________________
Which president was most progressive and an idealist in domestic and foreign policy? ________________
Name 5 causes of World War I: ______________ ______________ ________________ ______________ _____________
Name 3 causes for U.S. involvement in WWI: ___________________ _________________ ________________
Name 5 new weapons in World War I: _________________ _____________________ ______________________
How did technology influence World War I? _____________________________________________
Wilson’s Fourteen Points influenced the Treaty of _______________________________.
What was the League of Nations? _________________________________
Henry Cabot Lodge led the fight against Americans signing the Treaty of Versailles. Did we sign it? __________Did the U.S.
join the League of Nations? ________________Why or why not? _____________________
African Americans experienced a Great Migration during World War I. This meant they moved from ______ to _______ to
work in American factories.
Propaganda was used during WWI. What is propaganda?__________________________
What did the Selective Service Act do? ____________________
On November 11, 1918, the armistice was signed. What is an armistice? ________________________
How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to World War II? _________________________
55. Match the following on WWI:
Pershing
Wilson
Kaisar Wilhelm
a)leader of Germany
b)American President
c)General of the American Expeditionary Forces
Senator Lodge
Czar Nicholas
Lenin
a)Communist leader of Russia/USSR
b)leader of Russia who abdicated
c)American Senator who led the defeat of the Treaty of Versailles
Doughboys
Uncle Sam
Trench Warfare
a)led to shell shock and disillusionment
b)used for recruitment and propaganda
c)American soldiers who served in Europe “Over There”
Stalemate
Argonne
Armistice
a)battle and turning point in war
b)lack of advancement for either side
c)ceasefire—the war was over