NAME:
CP AMERICAN HISTORY MIDTERM
The midterms will have THREE distinct parts:
1. The majority of the test will be multiple-choice.
2. There will be TWO essays..
3. THERE WILL BE A READING WITH QUESTIONS.
**THIS LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT BE ALL-INCLUSIVE**
Each section that you choose to complete will count as 1% toward your mid-term exam grade. This will
function as the curve and should really serve to help you get ready for the exam. This will be due on
Wednesday, 1/23 at your exam session. EACH ROMAN NUMERAL IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ONE
PERCENTAGE POINT. YOUR SECTION MUST BE COMLETE AND MOSTLY CORRECT!
The Scott-endorsed note card may be used (both sides). It must be handwritten as those that are typed
will be confiscated. Prepping essay questions and placing terms and concepts that you have difficulty
with is recommended. This optional review packet for extra credit on the exam plus use of your note
card is the only curve that you will receive so TAKE ADVANTAGE!
I. RECONSTRUCTION
1. Lincoln’s Plan versus the Radical’s Plan (goal, view on slavery, readmittance)
Lincoln’s Plan
Radical’s Plan
Goal
View on slavery
What had to happen
to readmit Southern
states? What
percentage?
2. Define 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
13th: ________________________________________________________________________________
14th: ________________________________________________________________________________
15th: ________________________________________________________________________________
3. Difference between Scalawags and Carpetbaggers – Include why people became each
Scalawags from ______________________
Carpetbaggers from ____________________
1. ____________________________________
1. ________________________________________
2. ____________________________________
2. ________________________________________
3. ____________________________________
3. ________________________________________
4. Define the following terms:
Jim Crow Laws: _____________________________________________________________________
Force Acts: __________________________________________________________________________
Black Codes: _________________________________________________________________________
Redemption: _________________________________________________________________________
First Reconstruction Act: ______________________________________________________________
Freedmen’s Bureau: ___________________________________________________________________
Civil Rights Bill 1866: _________________________________________________________________
5. Difference between tenant farming and sharecropping.
Tenant Farming: _____________________________________________________________________
Sharecropping: _______________________________________________________________________
What was the original goal of each? _____________________________________________________
Why was this goal never achieved? ______________________________________________________
6. Explain the voting restrictions.
poll tax: _____________________________________________________________________________
grandfather clause: ___________________________________________________________________
literacy test: _________________________________________________________________________
7. Explain significance of the following court cases.
Dred Scot Decision:___________________________________________________________________
Plessy vs. Ferguson: __________________________________________________________________
Brown vs. the Board: _________________________________________________________________
8. Define impeachment: ____________________________________________________________________
Who impeaches? ________________________ Who removes from office? _____________________
9. What four things contributed to the end of Reconstruction?
1. __________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________________________________
10. What does it mean to be a lame duck president? _____________________________________________
II. OLD FRONTIER and INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. Briefly explain each battle.
Sand Creek: _________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Boseman Trail: _______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Little Big Horn: ______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Wounded Knee: ______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Define the following terms:
assimilation: _________________________________________________________________________
Manifest Destiny: ____________________________________________________________________
Dawes Act: __________________________________________________________________________
Exodusters: __________________________________________________________________________
3.Who was Geronimo? _____________________________________________________________________
4. Trail of Tears- __________________________________________________________________________
5. Explain the restrictions placed on Native Americans (three options)
1. __________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________________________
6. Provide information about these aspects of Native American’s lifestyles.
housing: _____________________________________________________________________________
raising children: ______________________________________________________________________
use of buffalo: ________________________________________________________________________
INDUSTRIALIZATION
7. Describe the building of the transcontinental railroad.
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Built from
Ethnic group
Working
Problems
encountered
8. Explain the Credit Mobilier scandal: ________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
9. Grange Movement – who were they? _______________________________________________________
What did they do? ____________________________________________________________________
Why is this important? ________________________________________________________________
10. Explain the significance of the following cases and terms.
Wabash Ruling: ______________________________________________________________________
Munn vs. Illinois: ____________________________________________________________________
Monopoly: __________________________________________________________________________
Sherman Anti-trust Act: _______________________________________________________________
Merger: _____________________________________________________________________________
III. IMMIGRATION
1.
Melting Pot: _________________________________________________________________________
2. Define Political machines:_________________________________________________________________
PROS of political machines
CONS of political machines
1. ____________________________________
1. ________________________________________
2. ____________________________________
2. ________________________________________
*get my help
*Who was the NYC boss? ___________________________________
*Who brought him down? _______________________ How? _______________________________
3. Define the Anti-immigrant laws and terms.
Chinese Exclusion Act: ________________________________________________________________
Gentleman’s Agreement: ______________________________________________________________
Nativism: ___________________________________________________________________________
4. Describe an immigrant’s life.
Journey over: ________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Ellis Island: __________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
housing options: ______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
work options: ________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. Define dumbbell tenements and two laws that were passed to improve tenements.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
6.Define the following terms as found in your PowerPoint on my webpage or research to catch up:
benefit societies-____________________________________________________________________________
patron-____________________________________________________________________________________
scabs- ____________________________________________________________________________________
Angel Island- _____________________________________________________________________________
Eugenics- ________________________________________________________________________________
Mugwump- _______________________________________________________________________________
muckraker- _______________________________________________________________________________
IV. Civil War:
1. Why was the South so concerned about Lincoln being elected?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Provide the significance of the following:
A. Stephen Douglas-_________________________________________________________________
B. John Brown-_____________________________________________________________________
C. Robert E. Lee-___________________________________________________________________
D. Harriet Tubman-_________________________________________________________________
E. Harriet Beecher Stowe-___________________________________________________________
F. Jefferson Davis-_________________________________________________________________
G. John Wilkes Booth- _____________________________________________________________
H. Stonewall Jackson- ______________________________________________________________
I. Henry Clay- ____________________________________________________________________
3. Complete the following terms:
a. writ of habeas corpus-______________________________________________________________
b. fugitive Slave Act/Law/Compromise of 1850_________________________________________________________________________________
c. emancipation proclamation-_________________________________________________________
d. Gettysburg Address-________________________________________________________________
e. copperheads-______________________________________________________________________
f. martial law-_______________________________________________________________________
g. contraband-_______________________________________________________________________
h. war of attrition-___________________________________________________________________
i. Whig Party platform-______________________________________________________________
j. Gadsden Purchase- _______________________________________________________________
4. Give the importance of the following battles:
a. Gettysburg-_______________________________________________________________________
b. Vicksburg- _______________________________________________________________________
c. Appomattox Court House-__________________________________________________________
d. Antietam- _________________________________________________________________________
V. Essay Possibilities for the exam. (all must be prepped to get your 2% for this section)
Directions: Two of these will be picked for you to answer on the exam; so prep them all and place bulleted points about
them on your note card.
A.
From the Reconstruction Unit, List the four factors that contributed to the end
of Reconstruction. Be sure to explain each. Would you consider Reconstruction
to be successful in the United States? Explain. And lastly, explain how
Reconstruction left unfinished business in the south that created the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1950s and 1960?
B.
THE UNITED STATES HAS EXPERIENCED MANY SOCIAL,
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES FROM THE CIVIL WAR
THROUGH WWI. YOU WILL EVALUATE THE PERIOD 1861-1914 AND
DISCUSS THREE SOCIAL, THREE POLITICAL AND THREE
ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT OUR SOCIETY HAS ENDURED. YOU
MUST DISCUSS ONE FROM EACH OF THE FOLLOWING UNITS
THAT WE HAVE WORKED WITH IN CLASS: CIVIL WAR,
RECONSTRUCTION, THE OLD FRONTIER AND
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE GILDED AGE INCLUDING
IMMIGRATION.
C. “Even
though slavery was abolished during
Reconstruction,
the Freedmen were not truly free.”
Support this statement by describing in detail at least FOUR different ways (using specific
laws and acts) in which the Freedmen were still “enslaved”.
(VOTING LAWS COUNT AS ONE)
D. Explain what I meant in class by referring to “Lincoln’s Revolving Door
of Generals.” Provide at least three examples of changes Lincoln made
and discuss how this impacted the kind of fight that the union was able
to take to the Confederates.
E. Explain the difference between the terms Captains of Industry and
Robber Barrons. Explain in detail how did Rockefeller and Carnegie
became the tycoons that we know them as today? What legislation did
the federal government enact to control the monopolies and in your
opinion was it necessary and is it necessary to control capitalism?
Explain.