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Midterm Review
US History
Winter ’14
US History: Midterm Review
The midterm will be open materials. You may bring any and all notes, readings, handouts etc… with you in order to use as
references for your essay. Attached is a list of terms and concepts that we have discussed over the first half of the year.
Consider it an index. You do not need to define each term. Instead, use the list and the ratings above as a guide for
gathering your notes, organizing your information and reviewing topics you may be unsure of in preparation for writing the
essay.
Duration of Exam: 2 hours
Types of Questions: Essay
Methods of review:
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Going through your book notes and reviewing key terms and ideas.
Going through your notebook reviewing key terms and ideas.
Reviewing maps of Middle East, North America and Africa
Remember you can email me with any questions that you may have before the test. jennifer.given@sau41.org
Essay prep:
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes
the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work.
James Truslow Adams in 1931 said, according to the American Dream, "life should be better and richer
and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless
of social class or circumstances of birth. The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States
Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
PROMPT: Using a selection of accompanying documents and your knowledge of the period from the Civil War era to
WWI, discuss the validity of Adams’ statement on the American Dream.
Directions: Gather notes, research, information that will assist you in responding to a writing prompt on this
topic. Consider using class content as well as additional outside research. Bring all materials to the exam for use in your
response.
Be familiar with the following terms/concepts:
Antebellum South
Manifest Destiny
Westward Migration
Sectionalism
Gold Rush
Pro-Slavery Argument
Abolitionist Argument
John Brown
Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Popular Sovereignty
Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Secession
Advantages of the North
Advantages of the South
Financing the War (North)
Emancipation Proclamation
Black soldiers in the war (Glory)
Gettysburg
Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox
Disease in the war
Sherman’s March
Impact of the war (casualties)
Reconstruction:
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil War Amendments
Black Codes
Andrew Johnson
Competing notions of freedom
Radical Reconstruction
Radical Conservatives
Freedman’s Bureau
Death of Lincoln
Carpetbaggers
Redeemers
Southern Industrial Expansion
Klu Klux Klan
Jim Crow
Lynchings
Fire
Sanitation
Innovations of Cities
Skyscrapers
Innovations from the Fair
Social Changes from Cities
Motives for Imperialism
Spanish – American War
Hawaii
Coaling Station
Tariff
Queen Lilokalani
Tools of American Imperialism
The Wild West
Buffalo
Indian weakness
Reservations – “Concentration”
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Immigration
Indian New Deal
Chinese Exclusion Act
Mining
Boomtowns
Oregon Trail
Disease on the Trails
Loss of the Frontier
Buffalo Bill
Wild West Show
Populism
Depression of 1893
Populism
The Silver Question
Bimetalism
Cross of Gold
Election of 1896
Muckraking
Wizard of Oz
Social Darwinism
Immigration restrictions
Eugenics
Teddy Roosevelt
Square Deal
Conservation movement (c. 1900) Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Industrialization and Imperialism
Robber Barons
Social Darwinism
Monopoly
Wages and Working Conditions
Gospel of Wealth
Impact of Wealth
Devil in the White City
Daniel Burnham
John Root
Fredrick Olmstead
HH Holmes
The Black City
Poverty and Crime
Tenements
WWI
MAIN Causes
Central Powers
Allies
Black Hand
Franz Ferdinand
Causes of US Entry into war
Lusitania
Unrestricted Submarine warfare
Blockade
Treaty of Versailles
Woodrow Wilson
Trench Warfare
Propaganda