US History II (H)
Final Exam Review:
Directions: Please make sure that you
are able to identify the following terms
and their historical significance.
1.) 13th 14th & 15th Amendments
2.) Reconstruction Plans: who was it
punishing?
a. Lincoln
b. Johnson
3.) Compromise of 1877
4.) Social Darwinism – did what?
5.) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – was?
6.) Interstate Commerce Act m- goal?
7.) Andrew Carnegie’s business tactics
(varying forms of integration)
8.) Sherman Anti-trust Act - define
9.) Tammany Hall - define
10.) Patronage – example?
11.) Assassination of President Garfield –
why?
12.) Skyscrapers – made possible by?
13.) Jim Crow – defined?
14.) Plessy V. Ferguson- defined
15.) Progressive Movement – Goals (4)
16.) Muckrakers – defined?
17.) The Jungle – exposed?
18.) NAACP – goal?
19.) Roosevelt’s position on trusts
20.) Election of 1912 – why Taft defeated?
21.) World War I – effect on 19th
Amendment
22.) T.R.’s Noble Peace Prize – why?
23.) Roosevelt Corollary – built upon?
24.) Imperialist powers (what nations?)
25.) Panama Canal’s land was gained?
26.) Open Door Policy - what did it do?
27.) Industrialism helped imperialism –
how?
28.) US adaptation to German U-Boats
29.) Schlieffen Plan
30.) General A. Mitchell Palmer
31.) Teapot Dome – scandal about?
32.) Prohibition – Why?
33.) Harlem Renaissance – defined?
34.) F. Scott Fitzgerald
35.) John T. Scopes
36.) Great Depression – causes
37.) Bonus Army – who?
38.) Buying on margin – defined?
39.) Hoovervilles – what did it mean?
40.) Roosevelt’s 1st 100 Days – first actions?
41.) Goals of New Deal – what did he want
to do?
42.) Eleanor Roosevelt – role with FDR’s
presidency
43.) Roosevelt’s failures with Supreme Ct.
44.) Blitzkrieg - defined
45.) Munich Pact – was? Who opposed?
46.) GI Bill of Rights – defined?
47.) Interment Camps of Japanese – why
placed?
48.) Truman Doctrine – goals?
49.) Douglas MacArthur – commander
where?
50.) Marshall Plan - defined
51.) McCarthyism - defined
52.) Hydrogen Bomb – who had it? Why?
53.) Suburbs – what were they?
54.) Television – primary source of what?
55.) Rock ‘n’ Roll – impact on the youth?
56.) John F. Kennedy – where from?
57.) Robert Kennedy - position?
58.) Peace Corps - defined
59.) Warren Commission – results
60.) Lyndon Johnson – experienced?
61.) Medicare- defined
62.) Warren Court Case Rulings
63.) Cuban Missile Crisis- ended how?
64.) Berlin Wall- why constructed?
65.) Goal in Vietnam
66.) William Westmoreland who was he?
67.) France in Vietnam – when?
68.) Vietnamization
69.) Tonkin Gulf Resolution – who did it?
70.) “body count” in Vietnam – real?
71.) Pentagon Papers – who published?
72.) Domino Theory – defined?
73.) ARVN – who were they?
Essay Prompts:
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US foreign policy during the Cold War
Fear of Communism in American Life
Kennedy’s effectiveness
Gulf of Tonkin – Presidential Power in
Vietnam
5. Effects of the Vietnam War in US
History
6. Goal of US in Vietnam – Nixon’s Plan,
“Peace with Honor” attitude of
Communism, Time Expected in War