M. Schumacher
1st Semester Final
US Study Guide
The scantron portion of your essay will be taken during Finals Week. It will consist of 80 multiple choice, matching and true/false questions. It will be worth 80% of your Final Exam grade. Remember the essay portion of your Final Exam will be taken on Monday, January 14 and will be worth 20% of your Final Exam grade. You will need to purchase a blue bookfrom the bookstore and turn it in to me during the week of January 7, 2008. The blue book should have nothing written on it or in it (no names) and this will be collected for points. I will randomly redistribute blue books on Monday for the essay portion of the test.
Chapter 2: Revolution and the Early Republic
1.) What was the Virginia Plan? The New Jersey Plan? What was the Great Compromise?
2.) How did the Founding Fathers form a “separation of powers”? How did they make sure one branch didn’t get too much power?
3.) How is the Constitution a “living” document?
4.) Know all of the parties involved in the Revolutionary War. What were they fighting for? (Be familiar with Enlightenment ideas)
5.) Who was Daniel Shays? What was the significance of Shay’s Rebellion?
6.) Who were the Federalists? The Antifederalists?
7.) What did Hamilton, Madison and Jay have in common?
Chapter 3: The Growth of a New Nation
8.) Know the details of the Louisiana Purchase? What did Jefferson do to explore the new lands?
9.) Who were the abolitionists? Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
10.) What was the Monroe Doctrine? Why was it established?
Chapter 4: The Union in Peril
11.) Why was the Compromise of 1850 created? What were the particulars of the compromise?
12.) Who was Dred Scott? Why did he go to the Supreme Court?
13.) Who was John Brown? What happened at Harpers Ferry?
14.) Before the Civil War began, what were the strengths that the Union soldiers and the Confederate soldiers had?
15.) Who led the Union army? Who led the Confederate army?
16.) What was the Emancipation Proclamation? How did it impact the war?
17.) Why was the battle of Gettysburg significant? Antietam?
18.) What happened at Appomattox?
19.) Why did Sherman and Grant want to wage “total war”? What tactics did they use?
20.) What happened during Reconstruction?
21.) Who was Andrew Johnson? What happened to him? Why?
Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier
22.) What was a soddy?
23.) Who were the exodusters?
24.) What was the Homestead Act? How effective was it?
25.) What was the Grange?
26.) What did the Farmers’ Alliances do to help the farmers?
27.) What is Populism and what did the Populists want?
28.) What is assimilation?
Chapter 6: A New Industrial Age
29.) What was the impact of electricity? Steel? The railroads?
30.) What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York? What was the result of the disaster?
31.) What was the Bessemer process?
32.) Who was Andrew Carnegie and how did he manage his business?
33.) What is Social Darwinism and what does the phrase laissez faire mean?
34.) How did railroad companies influence time zones?
35.) What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
36.) What did critics of the industrialists call them?
37.) How did the railroad owners use Credit Mobilier to make huge undeserved profits?
38.) What is collective bargaining? What was it used to accomplish at the turn of the century?
Chapter 7: Immigrants and Urbanization
39.) What is Ellis Island?
40.) What is AngelIsland?
41.) What is nativism?
42.) What is graft?
43.) What is patronage?
44.) What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
45.) What are political machines?
46.) Who was Boss Tweed? Thomas Nast?
47.) Who was Jane Adams and how did she help immigrants through Hull House?
Chapter 8: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
48.) What two factors made it possible to build skyscrapers?
49.) Explain these voting restrictions: literacy tests, poll tax, Grandfather Clause
50.) What happened in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case?
51.) Who was Booker T. Washington and what was his approach to ending racism?
52.) Who was WEB DuBois and what was his approach to ending racism?
53.) What was the Niagara movement?
54.) As the 19th century drew to a close what form of leisure activities did Americans begin to engage in?
Chapter 9: The Progressive Era
55.) What was the Progressive Movement?
56.) What is a recall? An initiative? A referendum?
57.) Who were muckrakers and what did they do?
58.) What is suffrage? What is the 19th amendment? What techniques were used in getting women the right to vote?
59.) Why was the NAACP established?
60.) What was Prohibition? Why did the movement appeal to so many women?
61.) Who was Upton Sinclair?
62.) What were the major reforms under Roosevelt’s Square Deal?
63.) What happened in the election of 1912?
Chapter 10: America Claims an Empire
64.) What is imperialism (definition/ causes)?
65.) What is yellow journalism? Who was engaged in this activity?
66.) What was the Platt Amendment?
67.) How was the war between Russia and Japan resolved?
68.) What was the Boxer Rebellion?
69.) What was Teddy Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy?
70.) What were the components of the Treaty of Paris?
71.) How did the United States gain control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal?
72.) Why was Puerto Rico important to the US? What is the status of Puerto Rico and its citizens in regards to the US?
73.) Who were the Rough Riders? What did they do?
74.) What happened to the USS Maine? What impact did it have?