First Semester Review Guide
The West (p.202-225)
Transcontinental railroad
Cattle industry
Assimilation
Buffalo Decline-reasons/effects
Manifest Destiny
Homesteader
Dawes Act
Geography of the Great Plains and technology
Homestead Act
Wounded Knee Massacre
Homesteader- Exodusters
Miners / Cowboys
Sioux Ghost Dance
Relationship b/t Native Am. and Gov’t
Industrialization and Immigration (p. 230-271)
Andrew Carnegie
“Robber Baron” vs. “Captain of Industry”
Immigrants- reasons for coming to the U.S.
John D. Rockefeller
Bessemer Process/Steel
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Triangle Shirtwaist
Jane Addams- Hull House
Strikes- /Purpose-Pullman, Haymarker, Homestead
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Chinese Exclusion Act
Social Darwinism
Monopolist/ Monopoly
Relationship b/t Big Business and Gov’t
Inventions Chart
Drake, Bessemer, Wright brothers, Edison and Bell &
Menlo Park
Progressive Movement (p.306-337)
Goals (4)
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
19th Amendment
Suffrage
Pure Food and Drug Act
Muckraker- Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Stephens
Meat Inspection Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
NAACP
Conservation (Who and How)
National Forest System
Imperialism (p.342-367)
Motives for U.S. imperialism –economic, social and
political
Boxer Rebellion
Annexation of Hawaii
Open Door Policy
Panama Canal
Spanish American War (Causes & Results)
Imperialism (Reasons why)
Yellow journalism
President Theodore Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
USS Maine
White Man’s Burden
WWI (p.372-405)
Causes of WWI (all 5)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Neutrality
Submarine Warfare
League of Nations-14 points
President Woodrow Wilson
Treaty of Versailles- 4 provisions, US ratification
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Lusitania
Reasons for US entry into the war (5 reasons)
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Armistice
Trench warfare
Impact on Women and African Americans
1920s (p. 412-457)
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Nativism
Rise of KKK
Prohibition
18th Amendment/ 21st Amendment
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Harlem Renaissance
Charles Lindbergh
Communist/ Bolshevik Revolution
Scopes Trial
National Origins Act
Teapot Dome Scandal
Flappers
Changing role of women in the 1920s
Great Migration
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
First Semester Review Guide
1920s leisure activities
Societal changes in the 1920s
Traditional values v. cultural changes
Consumer spending