U.S. History First Semester Exam Review Sheet
U.S. History First Semester Exam Review Sheet
Early America
- Problems with the Articles of Confederation
- Significance of Northwest Ordinance
- Purpose of Federalist Papers
- Purpose of Anti-Federalist Papers
- Significance of Declaration of Independence
- Significance of Bill of Rights
- Significance of Constitution
Reconstruction
- Effects of Reconstruction
- Purpose of Jim Crow Laws
- Significance of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Westward Expansion
- Purpose of Homestead Act
- Purpose of Dawes Act
- Role of government in building railroads
Industrialization
- Impact of industrialization on population patterns
- Characteristics of new vs. old immigrants
- Problems caused by rapid growth of cities
- Examples of changes in 19th century cities
- Reasons for labor movement and the formation of unions
- Methods used by labor unions to bring about change
- Key business leaders of the 1800s and 1900s
- Reason for the formation of trusts
- Significance of relationship between big business and government
- Goals of Populist (Platform)
- Role of Political machines in city politics
Progressivism
- Purpose of muckrakers writing
- Purpose of reforms advocated by Progressives
- Purpose of the initiative
- Purpose of Prohibition
- Significance of women’s suffrage movement prior to 19th amendment
- Goal of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Reforms supported by President Teddy Roosevelt
- Purpose of Federal Reserve System
Imperialism
- Foreign Policy adopted by U.S. after 1898
- Yellow Journalism
- Reasons for expansion overseas
- Reasons for annexing Hawaii
- Reasons for building the Panama Canal
World War I (WWI)
- Explain the position of the U.S. at the start of WWI and the reason for this stance
- Role of women during WWI
- Purpose of the 19th amendment
- Reasons for the Great Migration
- Propaganda campaigns related to the home front
- Purpose of the League of Nations
- Reasons for Congress rejecting U.S. involvement in the League of Nations
Roaring Twenties (1920s)
- Identify the preferred mode of transportation in the 1920s
- Significance of Harlem Renaissance
- The social effects of Prohibition
Great Depression and New Deal
- Describe the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression
- Explain how the Depression affected the American society
- Summarize how Hoover dealt with the Great Depression
- Describe and Identify FDR’s New Deal Programs
- Analyze the effects of FDR’s New Deal
Short Answer
- Reasons why the Articles of Confederation was replaced with the Constitution in 1787
- Effects of Industrialization on living and working conditions in U.S.
- Reasons Immigrants came to the U.S.
- Reasons why the U.S. departed from isolationism and toward imperialism
- Reason why U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. entry into the League of Nations
- Reasons why the U.S. entered World War I
- Describe the causes and the effects of the Great Depression