U. S. HISTORY PART ONE MIDTERM & FINAL EXAM STUDYGUIDE
-The Midterm covers chapters 6-13, pages 228-461.
-The final covers chapters 6-16, pages 228-559.
-Below are the key concepts, people and events that may be covered on the test.
Growth of an Industrial, Urban & Global U.S. (1870-1930)
Industrialization Learning Goal:Analyze the effects of various scientific discoveries & manufacturing innovations on the nature of work, the labor movement & businesses.
Section 1
Oil & Steel Beginnings
Edison & Electricity
Industrialization and workingconditions
Section 2
Transcontinental Railroad
Company towns/Pullman
Regulation of Railroad/Interstate Commerce
Section 3
Carnegie steel & strategies
Social Darwinism
Monopolies & Trusts
Rockefeller & Standard Oil
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Worker’s rights & poor working conditions
Rise of Labor Unions/collective bargaining
Strikes – Great Strike, Homestead, Pullman
Government vs. Unions
Immigration & Urbanization Learning Goal: Analyze the economic, social, & political effects of immigration & to understand the immigrant experience.
Section 1
European Immigration
Chinese & Japanese Immigration
Ellis & Angel Island
Melting Pot theory vs. Nativism
Causes & Results of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Causes & Results of the Gentlemen’s Agreement
Section 2
Urbanization
Americanization Movement
6 problems of urbanization in late 1800s
Settlement houses
Jane Addams
Section 3
Political Machines in local government
Immigrants and political machines
Graft in political machines
Tweed Ring
Patronage vs. Civil Service (Pendleton Act)
High Tariffs in late 1890s
Life at Turn of 20th Century Learning Goal: Analyze significant turn-of-the 20th century trends in technology, education, race, & mass culture.
Section 1
Skyscrapers and mass transit
Urban Planning
Literacy and Printing
Airplanes-Wright Brothers
Photography – Eastman/Kodak
Section 2
Changes in Public Education
High Schools Growth
Immigrant Education
Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois
Section 3
Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, & grandfather clauses –
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Racial Violence in the South
Northern Race Discrimination
Section 4
Amusement & Leisure in 1900
Baseball
Hearst, Pulitzer, & newspapers
Fiction in 1900
New shopping methods, advertising
Catalog shopping
Progressive Era Learning Goal: Explain how the progressive movement managed to increase the power of government to regulate business & to protect society from the injustices fostered by big business.
Section 1
4 Goals of Progressivism
Prohibition:
-C. Nation/W.C.T.U.
-18th Amendment
Muckrakers
Ford’s Employee Program
Child Labor
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
17th Amendment
Section 2
Women in the work force
Susan B. Anthony – suffrage
Suffrage strategy – 3 parts
Section 3
Teddy Roosevelt’s life
T.R. becomes president
Square Deal
Trustbusting
1902 Coal Strike
Elkins Act-Hepburn Act
Meat Inspection/Pure Food Acts
-Upton Sinclair/The Jungle
Conservation Examples
T.R. and Civil Rights
NAACP
Section 4
Taft problems
Bull Moose Party
Section 5
Woodrow Wilson
Clayton Act
FTC
Federal Income Tax
Federal Reserve
19th Amendment
America Becomes a World Power Learning Goal: Explain how individualseventsmoved the U.S. into the role of a world power & to recognize the effects of economic policies on U.S. diplomacy.
Section 1
Three factors of imperialism
Mahan & the Navy
Seward & Alaska
Annexation of Hawaii
Section 2
Cuba vs. Spain
US assists Cuba
Yellow Journalism & war
De Lome Letter
U.S.S. Maine
Spanish-Amer War/McKinley
S/A in Philippines
T.R. Rough Riders
Treaty of Paris
Section 3
Foraker Act – P.R.
Platt Amendment
Protectorate
Aguinaldo – Filippino/US war
John Hay – Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Section 4
T.R. – Russo/Japan War
Panama Canal – How & why
Roosevelt Corollary
Taft/Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson/Missionary Diplomacy
Rebellion in Mexico
Pershing vs. Villa
WWI Learning Goal: Explain the causes of WWI , the reasons the U.S. entered the war in 1917, & the consequences of the war.
Section 1
Four Causes of WWI
-Nationalism, Militarism,
Imperialism, Alliances
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Assassination of Ferdinand
Aggressors in WWI
Trench Warfare
Wilson/American Neutrality
U-Boats & Lusitania
Response to Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
US enters war
Section 2
Selective Service
War production
Convoy system
A.E.F. & Pershing
New Weapons
Trench diseases
Rickenbacker/York
-Conscientious Objector
Collapse of Germany
Results of WWI
Armistice/Truce
Section 3
War Industries Board
Food Administration
Propaganda
Sedition and Espionage Act
African-Americans & WWI
-DuBois
Great Migration
Flu Epidemic
Section 4
14 points
League of Nations
Big Four
Treaty of Versailles
Reparations
Weaknesses of treaty
Opposition to League of Nations
Results of WWI
The Great Depression & WWII
(1920-1945)
Politics of the Twenties Learning Goal: Explain the political & social changes after WWI & throughout the decade of the 1920s.
Section 1
Nativism & Isolation
Communism & Red Scare
-A.M. Palmer
Sacco and Vanzetti
-Anarchists
KKK rises again
Quota System
Police, Steel, Coal Strikes
-John Lewis
Reason for decline of unions
Section 2
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Dawes Plan (not act)
Harding & Ohio Gang
Teapot Dome Scandal
Section 3
Calvin Coolidge
Impact of Automobile/H. Ford
Urban Sprawl
Airplane Industry
Electric Conveniences
Advertising
Production & Easy Credit
Roaring Twenties Learning Goal: Explain such issues as Prohibition, the changing role of women, and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance.
Section 1
Rural vs. Urban lifestyles
City Life
Prohibition
Speakeasies & Bootlegging
Organized Crime/ Al Capone
Religion vs. Science
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial/John Scopes
Section 2
Flappers & women’s roles
Double Standard
Work for Women
Family changes
Section 3
School enrollment
News & radio
Sports Heroes/Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Movies & music of the 20s
Writers of the 20s
-Fitzgerald/Hemmingway
Section 4
NAACP & African-American goals
Garvey & UNIA
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz musicians
-Armstrong, Ellington, Smith,
Calloway
Great Depression Learning Goal: Explain the causes & consequences of the Great Depression & the ineffectiveness of Hoover’s actions to limit the damage.
Section 1
Herbert Hoover
Industry problems
Credit Issues
Uneven Income Distribution
Stock Market Problems
Black Tuesday
Bank/Business Failures
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Causes of Depression (4)
Section 2
Depression in Cities
Dust Bowl
Hoboes/Wild Boys
Direct Relief
Children’s problems
Psychological Impact
Section 3
Hoover’s Philosophy
BoulderDam/Hoover Dam
Hoover gets blamed
Federal Home Loan Act
R.F.C.
Patman Bill and Bonus Army
New Deal Learning Goal: Explain the drive for FDR’s New Deal legislation & the impact these policies had on America.
Section 1
New Deal & FDR
1st 100 Days
Fireside Chats
F.D.I.C
AAA & CCC
Fair business practices
F.E.R.A.
Deficit spending
Court packing
Long, Coughlin, Townsend
Section 2
2nd AAA
W.P.A.
N.Y.A.
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Section 3
Frances Perkins
Black Cabinet
FDR & Civil Rights
Section 4
Movies of the 1930s
Radio & Orson Welles
Federal Art Project
Woody Guthrie
Steinbeck/Grapes of Wrath
Section 5
Positives of New Deal
Negatives of New Deal
F.D.I.C. & S.E.C.
N.L.R.B
T. V. A.
Parity
WWII Begins Learning Goal: Describe the rise of dictators, the beginnings of war, and the American response in the 1930s.
Section 1
Nationalism in Europe
Totalitarian
Stalin & USSR
Fascism
Mussolini in Italy
Hitler & Nazism
Japan & Tojo
Japanattacks China
Franco & Spain
US Neutrality Acts
Section 2
Hitler takes Austria
Sudetenland
Chamberlin/Appeasement
Russia/Germany
Non-Aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Fall of France
Battle of Britain/Churchill
Section 3
Holocaust
Final Solution
Ghettos & Ghetto Life
Concentration Camps
Extermination & Death Camps
Section 4
US Defense
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter/Allies
-FDR/Churchill
JapanPearl Harbor
US Reaction to Pearl Harbor