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United States History Midterm Exam Study Guide
Revolution Means Change – (Chapters 1, 2, and 3)
1. The Columbian exchange refers to the transfer of goods between what countries?
2. According to mercantilism, a nation could increase its wealth and power by obtaining as much gold and silver as possible
and by doing what?
3. What was the MOST significant consequence of the French and Indian War?
4. Why is the Declaration of Independence important?
5. A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that:
6. What is the purpose of the Great Compromise in 1787?
7. Is the American Revolution radical or conservative? Why?
8. What was the significant event during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency that led to the United States doubling in size?
9. What did the ground breaking court case Marbury vs. Madison establish the policy of?
10. List the results of the War of 1812.
11. Why did Westward Expansion resulted in an increase in bitterness and threatened national unity?
12. Define Manifest Destiny: :
13. List what a “Jacksonian Democrat” would believe in.
Blood Drawn – (Chapter 4)
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What were the “LONG TERM” causes of the Civil War?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What was Abraham Lincoln’s MAIN goal when the Civil War began?
Why did the South feel that an attack on slavery was an attack on the southern people?
Lincoln’s attitude towards the Civil War changed halfway through the war. What did he decided?
What advantages did the Union have over the Confederacy during the Civil War?
What two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?
Why did Reconstruction fail?
What was the issue that was addressed by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
List all that were included in the economic impact of the Civil War on the South.
Farm to Factory and Writing the Wrongs – (Chapters 6, 7, and 9)
24. In the struggle between Labor and Management, what does the term “labor” generally refer to?
25. Who were “Robber Barons”?
26. “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…The one absolutely certain way of bringing the nation to
ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of
squabbling nationalities”. What concept does this quote BEST reflect?
27. “The best reason that could be given for this radical restriction of immigration is the necessity of protecting out population
against degeneration and saving our national peace and quiet from imported turbulence and disorder. This quote BEST
reflects the concept of______________ as it existed in the Gilded Age.
28. How were Political Machines corrupt during the Gilded Age?
Match the Goal of Progressivism with the item that corresponds to that goal for questions # 29 – 33
a. protecting social welfare
b. promoting moral reform
c. creating economic reform
d. fostering efficiency
29. Henry Ford’s use of the assembly line to make production quicker
30. The Temperance movement that ultimately won the passage of the 18th Amendment: Prohibition
31. Groups such as the YMCA and Salvation Army helping the poor
32. The Clayton Anti-Trust act to combat unfair monopolies
33. Roosevelt sending federal investigators to confirm what he read in The Jungle, then pressing congress to pass the Pure
Food and Drug Act
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American Empire and World War I – (Chapters 10 and 11)
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List the ideas that fueled American Imperialism.
How were yellow journalists able to influence Americans’ opinions on foreign policy?
Why is the First World War sometimes called the “war of the industrial revolution”?
List the effects of the First World War.
What was the reason given by the U.S. Senate for rejecting involvement in the League of Nations?
Why would a liberal historian say that America was hypocritical in calling its role in the war “making the world safe for
democracy”?
Match the quote with the appropriate “Root of American Imperialism” for questions # 40 – 43
40. Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana said: “[God] has made us adept in
government that we may administer government among savage and senile
peoples....He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally
lead in the redemption of the world.”
41. Theodore Roosevelt suggested in 1901 that: “If the American nation will …keep at
a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will
go far.”
a, Desire for Military Strength
b. Thirst for New Markets
c. Belief in the Cultural Superiority of
white English speakers
42. Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana in early 1897 declared: "American factories
are making more than the American people can use…Fate has written our policy for
us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours."
43. William McKinley said: “There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all and
to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them…”
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