EOC Study Guide
US History 11A
Revised October 2012
I. Unit 1: Industrialization, Immigration
& Progressivism
Industrialization
· Alexander Graham Bell
· Andrew Carnegie
· Henry Ford
· Industrialist
· John D. Rockefeller
· JP Morgan
· Labor unions
· Laissez faire
· Monopoly
· Orville and Wilbur Wright
· Philanthropy
· Robber Baron
· Sherman Anti-Trust Act
· Social Darwinism
· Steel/new technology
· Thomas Edison
· Trust
· Urbanization
Immigration
· Angel and Ellis Islands
· Assimilation
· Nativism
· Quotas/Limitations on immigration:
Gentleman’s Agreement and Chinese Exclusion Act
Progressivism
· 17th Amendment
· 19th Amendment
· Labor Laws
· Labor Unions
· Muckraker
· Populism
· Spoils System
· Suffrage
· The Jungle
· Theodore Roosevelt
· Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
· Upton Sinclair
Revised October 2012
Revised October 2012
II. Unit 2: Imperialism and WWI (1880-1919)
Identify on a Map
· China
· Cuba
· Guam
· Hawaii
· Panama Canal
· Puerto Rico
· The Philippines
Imperialism
· China
· Cuba
· Hawaii
· Imperialism
· Isolationism
· Joseph Pulitzer
· Open Door Policy
· Panama Canal
· Philippines
· Rough Riders
· Spanish American War
· Theodore Roosevelt
· USS Maine
· William Randolph Hearst
· Yellow journalism
WWI
· Allied Powers/Triple Entente
· Archduke Franz Ferdinand
· Central Powers/Triple Alliance
· Contributing Causes: Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Alliance System
· Czar Nicholas II
· Influenza Pandemic
· Kaiser Wilhelm II
· League of Nations
· Lusitania
· New Military Technology
· Reparations
· Russian Revolution
· Treaty of Versailles
· Trench Warfare
· U-boats
· Vladimir Lenin
· Woodrow Wilson
· Zimmerman Note
III. Unit 3: From Boom to Bust
(1920’s & 1930’s)
Roaring Twenties
· Bootlegging
· Charles Lindberg
· Communism
· Flappers
· Harlem Renaissance
· Jazz
· John Scopes Trial
· KKK
· Louis Armstrong
· Prohibition/18th Amendment/21st Amendment
· Red Scare
· Speakeasies
Great Depression
· Black Tuesday
· Bonus Army
· Causes of the Great Depression
o Credit/banking/investments
o Poor farming and industry practices
o Unequal distribution of wealth
· Dust Bowl/Causes
· Franklin D. Roosevelt
· Herbert Hoover
· Hoovervilles
· New Deal
· New Deal Programs
(SSA, FDIC, SEC, CCC, TVA)
· Stock Market
Revised October 2012
Revised October 2012
IV. Unit 4: World War II (1933-1945)
Mapping (Post WWI Political Map of Europe)
Timeline Skills (order of events)
Military
· Blitzkrieg
· D-Day
· Douglas MacArthur
· Dwight Eisenhower
· George Marshall
· Hiroshima
· Island hopping
· Manhattan Project
· Midway
· Pearl Harbor
· Poland
· Stalingrad
· Total War
· VE Day
· VJ Day
Political
· “Big Three” Leaders
· Adolf Hitler
· Allied Powers
· Appeasement
· Atlantic Charter
· Axis Powers
· Benito Mussolini
· Britain
· Communism
· Conversion of industry for war
· Emperor Hirohito
· Fascism
· France
· Franklin D. Roosevelt
· Germany
· Harry S. Truman
· Hideki Tojo
· Holocaust/Genocide
· Home Front
· Isolationism/internationalism
· Italy
· Japan
· Japanese Internment Camps
· Joseph Stalin
· Lend Lease Act
· Militarism
· Munich Pact
· Neutrality Acts
· Neville Chamberlain
· Nonaggression Pact
· Rationing
· Selective Service/Draft
· Social changes for women and minorities
· Soviet Union
· Totalitarianism
· Winston Churchill
Revised October 2012
Revised October 2012