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US History I
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United States History Final Exam Study Guide
Chapter 9- The Progressive Era
1. Goals of the Progressive Era
2. Muckrakers
3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
4. Pure Food and Drug Act
5. Daylight savings time was instituted as a means of conserving
_______________________.
Chapter 10- Imperialism
1. Reasons for U.S. imperialism
2. Countries that came under US control as a result of Spanish- American War.
3. Who said, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war?”
4. For what reason did Theodore Roosevelt win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?
5. Boxer Rebellion
6. Russo-Japanese War
7. Hawaiian revolution
8. Cuba’s second war for independence
9. Platt Amendment
10. de Lome letter
11. Treaty of Paris
12. Foraker Act
13. U.S.S. Maine
14. Yellow Journalism
15. General John Pershing
16. Luis Munoz Rivera
17. “Remember the Maine!”
18. Panama Canal
19. How did the U.S. treat soldiers during the Filipino-American War?
20. King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani
21. Teddy Roosevelt- Hero of __________________________________.
Chapter 11- World War I
1. Causes of WWI
2. Where did the assassination that triggered the war occur?
3. Policy that kept the US out of the war for nearly three years.
4. Convoy system
5. Selective Service Act
6. Which types of mechanized warfare were introduced in WWI?
7. Which nation suffered the fewest number of causalities?
8. Nations that were part of the “Big Four”
9. Who rejected Wilson’s Fourteen Points plan?
10. What reason did Senators oppose U.S. membership in the League of Nations?
11. Nationalism
12. Active fighting in WWI began with the invasion of __________________________.
13. Trench warfare
14. U-boats
15. Zimmerman Note
16. Central Powers and Allies
17. Wilson’s Fourteen Points described Wilson’s ____________________ plan.
Chapter 12- Politics of the 1920s
1. Sacco and Vanzetti were charged and convicted of what?
2. John L. Lewis
3. Anarchists
4. Communism
5. During the 1920s, union membership _____________________.
6. First practical peacetime use of airplanes was for?
7. Cause for urban sprawl
8. Teapot Dome Scandal
9. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
10. Employers accused workers of being _________________________.
11. Great Migration
12. Boston Police Strike
13. Red Scare
14. Installment Plan
15. Main goal of Washington Naval Conference
16. Ohio gang
17. Quota System
Chapter 13- Culture of the 1920s
1. Bootlegger
2. Charles Lindbergh
3. Buying on credit
4. Harlem Renaissance
5. Speakeasy
6. Ernest Hemingway
7. Duke Ellington
8. Fundamentalism
9. Sinclair Lewis
10. William Jennings Bryan and Scopes Trial
11. One effect of Prohibition
Chapter 14 and 15- Great Depression and New Deal
1. Democrat that lost the presidential election of 1928.
2. Republican that won the presidential election of 1928.
3. Black Tuesday
4. Dow Jones Industrial Average
5. Buying on Margin
6. Speculation
7. Great Depression
8. Securities and Exchange Commission
9. Civilian Conservation Corps
10. First major action taken by FDR as president
11. First woman to serve on FDR’s cabinet?
12. Goal of the New Deal
13. Works Progress Administration
14. Agricultural Adjustment Act
15. Which piece of New Deal legislation was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court?
16. Eleanor Roosevelt
17. What reached a new high during FDR’s first term as president?
18. Which one of Roosevelt’s ideas failed to become a law?
19. Dorothea Lange
ESSAY (20 points)
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION ON A PIECE(S) OF LINED PAPER! It must be
answered in depth, utilizing an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
The body must answer the question by using at least three specific and detailed
examples of historical facts!!!
Describe the causes of the Great Depression. Defend the argument that America’s poor
use of credit was the leading factor towards the economic collapse of the late 1920’s.