U.S. HISTORY
FINAL EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
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The Final Exam will consist of Multiple Choice (many of which should seem
similar to you!) matching, and an essay question. Please study the following tests and
terms.
Ch. 10- Reconstruction
Ch. 11 Settling the West
Ch. 12 Industrialization
Ch. 13 Urban America
Ch. 14 Becoming a World Power
Ch. 15 (progressives-no test.)
Ch. 16 WWI
Ch. 17 and Ch. 18 The 1920’s and 1930’s
Ch. 18 The Great Depression
Ch. 19 The New Deal-no test
Ch. 20. And Ch. 21 World War II
Ch. 22 The Cold War Begins-no test
(and anything else we get to before the end of the year.)
CHAPTER 10-RECONSTRUCTION
Lincoln-beliefs about Reconstruction and his Reconstruction Plan
Andrew Johnson’s beliefs about Reconstruction and his plan
Radical Republican’s plan-Military Reconstruction
Tenure of Office Act and Johnson
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
KKK-goals
Sin taxes
Panic of 1873
Wade Davis Bill
Black Codes
Different Republican Reforms in South
Grant and his role as President
Horace Greely
What happened with the Compromise of 1876?
Sharecroppers
Howard University
Enforcement Acts
Civil Rights act of 1866
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Crop lien system
Debt peonage
Freedmen’s Bureau
CH. 11 SETTLING THE WEST
Henry Comstock/Comstock Lode
Boomtowns
Vigilance committees
Mining and Statehood
Different types of mining
-sluice
-placer
-hydraulic
Ranching and Cattle Drives
-fear of ranching because cattle from East can’t survive
Longhorns
Open range
Long drive
Ranching/Cattle big business
Hispanic Southwest
-haciendas
Las Gorras Blancas
Barrios
Great Plains
Stephen Long
Homestead Act
Dry farming
Sodbusters
Bonanza farms
Nomads
Dakota Sioux and Chief Little Crow-what happened?
Red Cloud’s War-Lakota
--Red Cloud. Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
-Bozeman Trail
Sand Creek Massacre-Chief Black Kettle and Colonel John Livingston
--what happened?
Indian Peace Commission
Battle of Little Bighorn (George Custer and Sitting Bull) What happened?
Flight of the Nez Perce—Chief Joseph
Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
CH. 12 INDUSTRIALIZATION
GNP
Edwin Drake
Alexander Bell
Thomas Edison
Laissez-faire
Entrepreneurs
Morrill Tariff
Pacific Railway Act
-growth of railroads
Jay Gould
Samuel Gompers
Vanderbilt
Robber barons
Rise of Big business
-corporations
-stock
Economies of scale
Andrew Carnegie and steel
-vertical integration
Rockefeller and Standard oil
-horizontal integration
-monopoly
Trust
Holding companies
Unions
Blacklists
Strikes
AFL
IWW
Women and unions
CH. 13 URBAN AMERICA
(Immigration (before and after 1890’s)
-who and why?
Ellis Island
Asian Immigration
-who and why?
Taipaing Rebellion
-Angel Island
Nativism
Reasons that people opposed immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Technology
-Skyscrapers-1st one-how high?
-Subway systems
Classes (high, middle, working)
Tenements
Urban Problems
-crime
-pollution
-political machines
Graft
George Plunkitt
Tammany Hall and William Boss Tweed
The Gilded Age
Individualism
Social Darwinism
Pop Culture
Pendleton Act
Wabash v. Illinois
ICC
Mckinley Tariff
Sherman Anti-Trust
Lester WardRauchenbaush-Gospel of Wealth
Salvation Army/YMCA
settlement house-Jane Addams
Poll tax
Segregation
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ida B. Wells
Lynchings
Mary Church Terrell
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
CH. 14 BECOMING A WORLD POWER
Imperialism
Protectorate
Ango-saxonism
Matthew Perry
Annexing Hawaii-why?
Pan-Americanism
Cuban rebellion
William Randolf Hearst and William Joseph Pulitzer
Yellow journalism
Battle of Manila Bay
Annexation of Phillipines
Platt Amendment
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Rough riders
Roosevelt’s diplomacy
Possible canal sites
-Panama Canal
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Roosevelt Corrollary
“big stick”
Dollar diplomacy
Explosion of the Maine
Treaty of Paris of 1898
CH. 15 PROGRESSIVES
Progressives
Muckrackers
Women’s suffrage
Child labor
Muller v. Oregon
Prohibition
ICC-progressives v. big business
Upton Sinclair
Meat inspection and Pure food and drug act
Election of 1912
CH. 16 WWI
Reasons for WWI
Franz Ferdinand
CENTRAL POWERS
ALLIED POWERS
GERMANY
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
BRITAIN
FRANCE
U-BOATS
TANKS
DOG FIGHTS
CONVOY
SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM
BUSINESS LOANS TO ALLIES
Victory gardens
NWLB
WIB
Schenck v. United States
-espionage
Selective service-draft
African Americans and Women in war
Trench warfare
New technologies
Argonne Forest
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson’s Fourteeen Points
National self-determination
League of Nations (what happened?)
Reparations by Germany
Red Scare
Mitchell Palmer
J.Edgar Hoover
CH. 17 and CH. 18 1920’s and 1930’s
Harding and Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Dawes Plan
Kellog-Briand Act
Rise of New Industries
-mass production
-assembly line and Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Credit
Mass Advertising
Managers
Radio
Nativism
Sacco-Vanzetti
KKK
Fundamentalism
-evolution v. creationism
Scopes Trial
Prohibition-speakeasies
Sports and popular culture
Harlem Renaissance
-great migration
Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism
stock market
bull market
buying on margin
speculation
Crash and Black Tuesday
Bank runs
Other reasons for the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Hoover and Depression
-RFC
Direct relief
Bonus March
Ch. 19 NEW DEAL
FDR
New Deal
Bank holiday-100 days
Fireside chats
FDIC
SEC
HOLC
Farm Credit Administration
AAA
NRA
CCC
WPA
Wagner Act and the NLRB
court-packing plan
CH. 20 and 21 WORLD WAR II
1. What did the French do when Germany invaded?
2. What was the result of the Battle of Stalingrad?
3. Why did the Japanese take offensive action against America?
4. What was the American strategy in the Pacific called?
5. The invasion of what country pushed Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
6. What advantage did the British have over the Germans?
7. Why did Truman order the dropping of the bomb?
8. The U.S gave Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for?
9. What did the Allies agree was their first military goal?
10. What problems did women face when working in industries during World War II?
11. In 1940 and 1941, what city did Germany use blitzkrieg on?
12. What country did Germany and Soviet Union divide in its Non-Aggression Pact?
13. What was the name of the vegetable gardens planted by Americans?
14. What group of Americans were evacuated to internment camps?
15. Who did Roosevelt announce the “good neighbor” policy with?
16. What was a war bond?
17. City in U.S. with most violent racial riots?
18. Define fascism
19. final German offensive during WWII
20. dictator of Italy
21. aviator and famous speaker for isolationism
22. American citizens of Japanese heritage
23. joint statement by Roosevelt and Churchill outlining certain principles for establishing goals for
postwar world
24. What was the name of the document that Roosevelt signed for internment camps?
CH 22- COLD WAR BEGINS
Yalta Conference-Roosevelt
Division of Germany
Poland
Potsdam Conference-Truman
Iron curtain
Satellite nations
Kennan-containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Chinese Revolution (Chaing Kai Shek and Mao Zedong)
Korean War
-what happens
MacArthur
China
Seoul
Truman fires MacArthur
End of War/Outcome
Red Scare
FDCA
HUAC
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
McCarthyism
McCarran Act
Life during Cold War
Brinkmanship
Massive retaliation
Sputnik
Test-ban treaty