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Trimester I of U.S. HISTORY CP REVIEW FOR EXAM
STUDY THE TOPICS BELOW & WRITE YOURSELF STUDY NOTES.
Sources: American Odyssey, other readings, homework assignments, class notes from
overheads, activities, and videos.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
CREATE FLASH CARDS
FORM A STUDY GROUP
DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!!
U.S. Government
Identify 3 branches of government and their main roles
State the meaning of “checks and balances”
Reconstruction
Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Define black codes
Identify (briefly) Johnson’s approach to Reconstruction v. Radical Republicans’ approach
Identify key reasons why Reconstruction ended
Define sharecropping, gerrymandering, Jim Crow
Industrialization
Define transcontinental railroad
Explain Social Darwinism
Explain the meaning of laissez-faire capitalism
Define monopoly
Describe conditions for factory workers
Progressives
Define progressive
Identify problems addressed by the progressives
Understand the connection between industrialization and progressivism
Define “muckracker”
State the way ‘scientific studies’ were used by progressives
Carefully review your video notes & paragraphs on Ida B. Wells
Study the presentations chart for Progressive topics: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis,
Mother Jones, Booker T. Washington, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman
Catt, Florence Kelley
Review the “Pulling It All Together” handout for Progressives unit
Imperialism
Locate on a map: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, China
Define ‘manifest destiny’
Describe (briefly) the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 and government boarding schools
Define imperialism
Know the difference between “justification” and “motive”
Explain the justifications given for U.S. imperialism (e.g., class notes & video)
Explain the motives of the U.S. for its imperialist actions (e.g., class notes & video)
Give reasons why people in the U.S. were ‘anti-imperialist’
Describe (briefly) the U.S.’s actions in Cuba, Puerto Rico & the Philippines, including:
motives & justifications, the Maine, Spanish-American War, the Platt & Teller
Amendments, and the struggle for independence in the Philippines after the SpanishAmerican War
Define the Monroe Doctrine
Define the Roosevelt Corollary
Define “yellow journalism”
Explain role of World’s Fairs
Review your quote handout
Be able to interpret a cartoon about imperialism
World War I
Identify the following on a map: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy, Ottoman Empire, and Russia
Know the years: the war began in Europe, the U.S. entered the war & the war ended.
Define: self-determination, alliance, neutrality, mobilization, draft
Identify Triple Entente & Allies members, and Central Powers members
Explain the 4 main causes of the war for European powers.
Identify the significance of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Identify the 2 war fronts.
Identify the significance of the Lusitania
Explain the significance of the Zimmerman telegram
Know why Russia left the war early
Identify the new warfare technologies and their overall impact
Describe WWI’s impact on the U.S. economy before the U.S. enters the war
Describe the U.S’s official and unofficial position towards the war, before it entered it.
Explain Wilson’s reasons for entering WWI
Identify ways the U.S. mobilized for war.
Define propaganda. Be able to give examples from the U.S. related to the war.
Identify reasons why some Americans opposed the war.
Explain the purpose and impact of the Espionage Act and the Sedition Amendment.
Homefront: African Americans migration North & suffragettes protesting the war
Describe the treatment of African Americans in the U.S. military.
Wilson’s 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles, and the League of Nations