US History Midterm Topics for Review
Reconstruction
• Causes of
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Military Reconstruction Act
• Why it ended?
• Effects of Poll Tax, Literacy Test,
grandfather clause
• Freedman’s Bureau
• KKK
Westward Expansion
• Railroads
• Homestead Act
• Cattle Kingdom
• Plains Indians
• Buffalo
• Wounded Knee
• Dawes Act
• Crazy Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• George Custer
• 49ers
• Boomtowns
Industrialization
• Laissez faire
• Monopoly/trust
• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• James Vanderbilt
• J. P. Morgan
• Social Darwinism
• Social Gospel/philanthropy
• American Federation of Labor
• Knights of Labor
• Working conditions
• RR strike of 1877
• Haymarket Square Riot of 1886
• Pullman Strike of 1894
• Horizontal and vertical integration
• Bessemer process
Immigration
• “Old” immigrants
• “New” immigrants
• Assimilation
• Nativism
• Ellis Island/Angel Island
• Chinese Exclusion Act
Populism & Progressivism
• Demands of Populist farmers
• Populist Party goals
• Causes of Progressivism
• Gilded Age
• Muckrakers
• 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
• Progressive Presidents
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Booker T. Washington
• Upton Sinclair
• Food and Drug Act
• Political machines in cities
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Imperialism
• Factors of Foreign Policy
• Panama Canal
• Yellow Journalism
• Spanish American War
o Sinking of the Maine
o Rough Riders
o Platt Amendment
o Treaty of Paris
• Purchase of Alaska and Hawaii
World War I
• Causes in Europe
• Causes of US involvement
• Military technology in--Trench
warfare, U-boats, Airplanes, Tanks
• Schenck v. US
• Committee on Public Information
• Anti-German sentiment
• Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson’s 14 Points