US History Semester 1 Exam Terms and Concepts List:
Sort your notecards. If you’re missing any, re-make the notecards.
Use these to prepare for the upcoming final exam.
Reconstruction:
Lincoln Plan
Johnson Plan
Radical Republicans
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Trans-continental
railroad
Battle of Wounded
Knee
Assimilation
Impeachment of
Johnson
Compromise of 1877
Westward Expansion
Reasons people settled
the west
Fetterman’s Massacre
Battle of Little
Bighorn
Homestead Act
Growth of Big Business
Laissez-faire
Carnegie
Socialism
Horizontal integration
Rockefeller
Knights of Labor
Vertical integration
Robber Barons
Reasons for the
development of labor
unions
Monopoly
Capitalism
Reasons people
opposed labor unions
Immigration/Urbanization/the Populists/Segregation
Reasons for
immigration
Social Darwinism
W.E.B. DuBois
Life in the tenements
Nativism
Tammany Hall
Gospel of Wealth
Booker T. Washington
Populism
Jim Crow
Plessy v Fergusson
Progressivism
Recall
Suffrage
Referendum
19th Amendment
Muckrakers (give
examples)
Initiative
Policies of Taft
Policies of T. Roosevelt
Policies of Wilson
Yellow journalism
Roosevelt Corollary
Treaty of Paris
Causes of the Spanish
American War
Progressivism
Imperialism
Causes of imperialism
Teddy Roosevelt- “Big
stick” diplomacy
Open Door policy
USS Maine
Taft- Dollar diplomacy
WWI
Causes of WWI
(MAIN)
Role of women
Espionage & Sedition
Acts
Allies
Central powers
Reasons the US
entered WWI
14 Points
Role of African
Americans
Propaganda goals in
WWI
League of Nations
Effects of prohibition
Sacco & Vanzetti
Isolationism
Great Migration
Red Scare
Harding
Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalism
Teapot Dome Scandal
Causes of the
Depression
Causes of the Stock
Market crash
Effect of the stock
market crash
Members of the Big
Four
Jazz Age
Prohibition
Scopes Trial
Charles Lindbergh
Coolidge
Great Depression
Hoover
The semester exam will cover topics from chapter 12-22. Multiple choice
questions may ask you to demonstrate knowledge of facts, interpret maps, charts,
political cartoons, and primary source quotes.