Semester 1 Final Exam Study Guide

Unit 1 – Enlightenment to Reconstruction (Questions 1 – 12)

  1. What ideas from John Locke did Thomas Jefferson borrow for the Declaration of Independence?
  2. What was the Great Awakening? How did it change the way the colonists felt about political independence from England?
  3. What was the Great Compromise?
  4. Which part of the United States Constitution contains fundamental liberties of American citizens?
  5. What was the Louisiana Purchase?
  6. What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
  7. What did people go to look for in California in 1849?
  8. What is Manifest Destiny?
  9. What was the main goal of abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison?
  10. What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution? What are they collectively known as?
  11. What Supreme Court decision ruled that “separate but equal” was legal?
  12. Who were the principle founders of the Seneca Falls Convention?

Unit 2 – Industrialization and Progressivism (Questions 13 – 26)

  1. To what group of people did Populism primarily appeal?
  2. How did the Federal Government help the transcontinental railroad companies in the late 1800s?
  3. What inventions contributed to the Industrial Revolution in America?
  4. Why were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan called Captains of Industry?
  5. From what area of the world did the New Immigration of the late 1800s emigrate?
  6. Why did businesses form trusts and monopolies in the late 1880s?
  7. What is laissez faire?
  8. Why didn’t labor unions achieve their goals in the late 1800s?
  9. Why were political machines successful in US cities at the turn of the century?
  10. What made tenements so dangerous to live in?
  11. What wasthe Social Gospel Movement?
  12. What was the primary contribution of the muckrakers?
  13. Which event was a result of the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
  14. Who were the three Progressive Presidents?

Unit 3 – Imperialism and World War I (Questions 27 – 38)

  1. What was the Open Door Policy?
  2. What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
  3. What territories became part of the United States as a result of the Spanish-American War?
  4. What did Roosevelt mean by “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?
  5. Why did the US support a revolution in Panama at the turn of the 20th century?
  6. What was the Zimmerman Note?
  7. What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
  8. What government agency was in charge of propaganda during WWI?
  9. What did Wilson hope to accomplish with the League of Nations?
  10. What was President Wilson’s plan for world peace called?
  11. What was the Espionage Act?
  12. How did the Treaty of Versailles cause WWII?

Unit 4 – The Roaring Twenties (Questions 39 – 49)

  1. How did mass production help build up the advertising industry during the 1920s?
  2. What was “buying on margin”?
  3. What is a bull market?
  4. How was the laissez faire of the 1920s a reversal of the Progressive Era?
  5. Who did Republican presidents support during the Roaring Twenties?
  6. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
  7. What foreign policies best illustrated the United States isolationist policy after WWI?
  8. What was the purpose of Dawes Plan?
  9. What is modernism?
  10. Whatorganizationwasformedinthe1920sto ensurethattheindividualrightsofcitizenswere protected from government abuse?
  11. What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
  12. What was the Red Scare during the 1920s?
  13. What were the Palmer Raids?
  14. What was the Volstead Act?
  15. What were the flappers, how were they significant in terms of women’s changing roles in society?
  16. Who was Marcus Garvey and what were his ideas?
  17. What was Nativism and what are some examples
  18. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
  19. How would the United States in the 1920s best be described?