US History Second Semester Final Study Guide

Chapter 14

  1. What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do
  2. Why were skyscrapers able to be constructed in the 1800’s
  3. What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act
  4. What was the purpose of the Credit Mobilier company
  5. What were the ideas behind Social Darwinism

Chapter 15

  1. What was Angel Island
  2. What was the main goal of the Americanization movement
  3. What was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act
  4. What is graft

Chapter 16

  1. What was the grandfather clause
  2. What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy vs. Ferguson
  3. What were Jim Crow laws

Chapter 17

  1. What did Sinclair’s The Jungle expose
  2. What was the goal of the NAACP
  3. What is an initiative
  4. What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
  5. What were the goals of the progressive movement

Chapter 18

  1. What was the cause of U.S. imperialism
  2. Why did Teddy Roosevelt win a Nobel Peace Prize
  3. What did the Roosevelt Corollary build on
  4. What was the de Lome letter
  5. What was the purpose of the Foraker Act
  6. What was the Boxer Rebellion
  7. What was the Open Door Policy

Chapter 19

  1. What were the causes of World War I
  2. What did the US do to overcome German U-boats
  3. What countries made up the “Big 4”
  4. What was the Selective Service Act
  5. Why did the US Senate oppose entering the League of Nations
  6. Why was the Schlieffen Plan effective
  7. How did the Espionage and Sedition Acts affect freedom of speech

Chapter 20

  1. What crime were Sacco and Vanzetti charged with
  2. Who was A. Mitchell Palmer trying to protect Americans from
  3. What caused urban sprawl in the 1920’s
  4. What was the Teapot Dome scandal
  5. Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact considered useless

Chapter 21

  1. What was the Harlem Renaissance
  2. What was the basis for the Scopes Trial
  3. What did fundamentalists believe

Chapter 22

  1. What were the causes of the Great Depression
  2. What were the causes of the Dust Bowl
  3. What did Hoover want business owners to do after the stock market crashed
  4. What was the goal of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Chapter 23

  1. What was the goal of the New Deal
  2. What was the first thing Roosevelt did after becoming president
  3. What was the goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
  4. What New Deal programs were deemed unconstitutional

Chapter 24

  1. What Soviet leader turned Russia into an industrial power
  2. What happened in the Battle of Britain
  3. What was the Lend-Lease Act
  4. What did Mussolini and Stalin disagree on in government

Chapter 25

  1. What did the GI Bill do for veterans
  2. Why did the Soviet Union win the Battle of Stalingrad
  3. How did the US government battle wartime inflation

Chapter 26

  1. What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine
  2. Why did the Soviet Union blockade West Berlin
  3. Who was Joseph McCarthy
  4. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine
  5. What happened after the armistice to end the Korean War
  6. What were Chinese Nationalists doing between 1944 and 1947

Essay Questions

  1. In what ways was World War 1 different from earlier wars in which the U.S. had been involved?

Think About:

Weapons used in the war

Nations involved in fighting

People who lost their lives in the war

Where fighting took place

  1. Describe the transformation of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Discuss the impact on the country’s citizens and the economy through the restructuring of society

Think About:

Economic position of Soviet Union before Stalin

Stalin’s “model communist state”

Stalin’s totalitarian regime