Final Exam Study Guide
Your final exam will either be on Tuesday 1/13, Wednesday 1/14, or Thursday 1/15. The exam will
be 100 multiple choice questions and will count for 10% of your final semester grade. The exam is
cumulative. The content that you are responsible for knowing includes but is not limited to:
WESTWARD HO
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Homestead Act of 1862
Manifest Destiny
Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
Mining (Placer Method & Hydraulic Method)
Boom Town
Ghost Town
Vigilante
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Cattle Drive
Nomad
Hunting Buffalo
Mutilation
Dawes Act
Colonel George Custer
Ghost Dance
Battles & Massacres (Sand Creek, Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee)
American Indian Chiefs (Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Wovoka
INDUSTRIALIZATION
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Pacific Railway Act
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Continental U.S. Time Zones
Robber Barons
Corruption (Crédit Mobilier Scandal)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Nikola Tesla
Philanthropists
Kerosene
Assembly Line
Women’s Unions
Homestead Strike
IMPERIALISM
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Monroe Doctrine & the Roosevelt Corollary
Yellow Journalism & the Spanish-American War (“Remember the Maine!”)
Panama Canal
Teddy Roosevelt (Open Door Policy & “Speak softly and carry a big stick”)
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
WORLD WAR I
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Royal Cousins (Kaiser Wilhelm II – Germany, Czar Nicholas
II - Russia, King George V – UK)
Causes of WWI (Powder Kegs)
o Nationalism
o Imperialism
o Militarism
o Alliances
o Balkans
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Gavrilo Princip)
Trench Warfare
o No Man’s Land
o Trench Foot
o “Shell Shock”
Technology of WWI
o Airplanes, Tanks, U-Boats, Machine Guns, Artillery, Flamethrower, Poison Gas
U.S. Entry into WWI
o Sinking of the Lusitania
o Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
o Zimmerman Telegram
o Conscientious Objector
Russian Revolution
Armistice (11:00am on 11/11/1918)
ROARING TWENTIES
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Influential People of the 1920s
o Aviators, Scientists & Inventors
o Harlem Renaissance
o Pop Culture
o U.S. Presidents
o “Traditional” vs. “Modern” America
“Where Jazz Meets Hip Hop”
Prohibition
Flappers
The Red Scare
GREAT DEPRESSION
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Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Black Tuesday)
Bull Market
Buying on Margin & Margin Call
Speculation
Depression
Bank Run
Overproduction
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Causes of the Great Depression
Dust Bowl
o Okies & their paths of migration
o Hoboes
o Tenant Farmers
Bonus Army
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Margaret Bourke-White’s The Louisville Flood, 1937
Movies & Music of the 1930s
NEW DEAL
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Moratorium
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Dole
Subsidy
Unionization
Demagogue
Court-Packing Plan
1932 Presidential Election (Hoover vs. FDR)
FDR’s 3 R’s
o Relief
o Recovery
o Reform
Fireside Chats
Demagogues (Father Charles Coughlin & Sen. Huey Long)
Act or Program
Agricultural
Adjustment Act
Acronym
AAA
Year
Enacted
Significance
1933
Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies
to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of
preventing soil erosion. Declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court.
Civilian Conservation
Corps
CCC
1933
Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform
reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of
workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys,
provided money for families.
Federal Emergency
Relief Act
FERA
1933
Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed
workers.
Glass-Steagall Act
FDIC
1933
Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at
first) to prevent bank failures.
National Industrial
Recovery Act
NIRA
1933
Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum
wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
1935
Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided
pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf,
disabled, and dependent children.
1933
Federal government built series of dams to prevent flooding and
sell electricity. First public competition with private power
industries
Social Security Act
Tennessee Valley
Authority
TVA
Wagner Act
NLRB
1935
Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting
tactics by management. Organized elections by secret ballots to
determine if workers wanted to form a union.
Works Progress
Administration
WPA
1935
Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs,
but more importantly provided work in arts, theater, and literary
projects.