Unit 1 Post-Civil War America and Populism

Chapter 16 Reconstruction and the South

Identify the following terms:

Ten percent plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Black Codes

Civil Rights Act

Tenure of Office Act

Scalawags Carpetbaggers

Sharecropping

Ku Klux Klan

Rutherford B. Hayes

Compromise of 1877

Discuss the phases of Reconstruction and the events that brought Reconstruction to an end.

Chapter 17 In the Wake of War

Identify the following terms:

Social Darwinism

Plessy v Ferguson

Booker T. Washington

W. E. B. Dubois

Atlanta Compromise

Sand Creek Massacre

Little Big Horn

Dawes Severalty Act

Pacific Railway Act of 1862

Credit Mobilier

James J. Hill

Open-range ranching

Joseph F. Glidden

Discuss the power of the presidency during this time. Support your view with evidence from the chapter and/or class notes.

In what ways were the Central Pacific, The Union Pacific, and the Great Northern railroads different?

How did the introduction of railroads in the west affect the cattle industry?

In what ways did Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois disagree? Which of the men would have been most willing to accept the Plessy decision?

Chapter 18 An Industrial Giant

Identify the following terms:

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Jay Gould

Bessemer Process Edwin Drake

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Andrew Carnegie

J. P. Morgan

John D. Rockefeller

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Patrons of Husbandry

Munn v Illinois

Wabash case

Interstate Commerce Commision

Sherman Antitrust Act

Knights of Labor

Haymarket Square

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Terrence Powderly

Homestead strike

Pullman strike

Eugene Debs

How did most Americans view big business?

Discuss the development of union activity.

What was the long term contribution of the Grange movement?

Chapter 19 American Society in the Industrial Age

Identify the following terms:

New Immigration

Exclusion Act of 1882

Jacob Riis

Dwight L. Moody

Social Gospel

Washington Gladden

Hull House

Describe the arrival of new immigrants and their assimilation into American society.

What was the goal of those who preached the social gospel?

Chapter 20 Intellectual and Cultural Trends

John Dewey

Progressive Education

Realism

Mark Twain

Frederick Jackson Turner

Explain Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis.

Why are the writings of Samuel Clemmens classified as realism?

Chapter 21 Politics: Local, State, and National

Identify the following terms:

Tweed Ring

Tammany Hall

Stalwarts

Half-breeds

Charles J. Guitteau

Chester A. Arthur

Farmers Alliance

Populist Party

James B. Weaver

William McKinley

William Jennings Bryan

Exam 1

Unit 2 Reform, Imperialism, and the Great War

Chapter 22: The Age of Reform

Identify the following terms:

Muckrakers

Robert M. LaFollette

NAWSA

Nineteenth amendment

Theodore Roosevelt

Anthracite Coal Strike

The Jungle

William Howard Taft

Bull Moose Party

Woodrow Wilson

NAACP

Define Progressivism and discuss its origins.

In what ways were progressives different than populists?

Why were women in western states given the vote at an earlier date than those in the East?

What evidence does Garraty offer that after 1909, blacks distanced themselves from Booker T. Washington’s approach to racial equality?

Chapter 23: From Isolation to Empire

Identify the following terms:

William H. Seward

Alfred T. Mahan

Queen Liliuokalani

Joseph Pulitzer

William Randolph Hearst

The Maine

DeLome Letter

Comm. George Dewey

Rough Riders

Platt Amendment

Open Door Policy Panama Canal

How did the theories of Darwin affect American foreign policy?

Chapter 24: Woodrow Wilson and the Great War

Identify the following terms:

Porfirio Diaz

Francisco Madero

Victoriano Huerta

Venustiano Carranza

Francisco "Pancho" Villa

Gen. John J. Pershing

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Central Powers

Allied Powers

U-boats

Lusitania

Committee on Public Info.

Fourteen Points

Paris Peace Conference

League of Nations

Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Chapter 25: Postwar Society and Culture

Identify the following terms:

Birth of a nation

The Jazz Singer

The Monkey Trial

Fundamentalism

Eighteenth amendment

Spirit of St. Louis

Henry Ford

Why was the decade of the Twenties sometimes considered the Golden Age of Sports?

Discuss the statement that "the literature of the twenties reflects the disillusionment of the intellectuals."

Chapter 26: The New Era: 1921-1933

Identify the following terms:

Normalcy

Al Smith

Crash of 1929

The Great Depression

"Hoovervilles"

"Bonus Army"

Teapot Dome

Exam 2

Unit 3 The New Deal to the Present

Chapter 27: The New Deal: 1933-1941

Identify the following terms:

Bank Holiday

FDIC

Federal Trade Commission

NRA

John L. Lewis

AAA

TVA

WPA

Huey P. Long

Father Coghlin

"Share-Oure-Wealth"

Second New Deal

Wagner Act

Social Security Act

Maynard Keynes

Neutrality Act of 1935

"Quarantine Speech"

Lend-lease

What common thread appears in the writings of the Depression Period authors such as Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Farrell and Faulkner?

What changes did Roosevelt suggest in regard to the Supreme Court? What motivated this action? How did Congress respond?

What actually ended the Great Depression?

Chapter 28: War and Peace

Identify the following terms:

Pearl Harbor

Battle of Midway

Battle of the Bulge

D-Day

Internment Camps

The Holocaust

Island Hopping

Douglas MacArthur

Kamakazes

Enola Gay

United nations

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Chapter 29: The American Century

Identify the following terms:

Taft-Hartley Act

Containment

Marshall Plan

Truman doctrine

Central Intelligence Agency

Berlin airlift

NATO

Mao Tse-tung

McCarthyism

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sputnik

Dien Bien Phu

Eisenhower Doctrine

Fidel Castro

Brown v Board

John F. Kennedy

Create a simple timeline of America’s military role in Korea.

Why was MacArthur removed from command in Korea?

Why did the television debate between Kennedy and Nixon benefit Kennedy?

It is likely that Kennedy won the election as a result of illegal action by whom?

Chapter 30: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Identify the following terms:

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Lee Harvey Oswald

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

SCLC

War on Poverty

Medicare

Head Start

Viet Cong

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Domino Theory

Tet Offensive

Sirhan Sirhan

Vietnamization

Kent State

Détente

CREEP

Watergate

Create a brief timeline of American military involvement in Vietnam. Include the period of advisers.

Chapter 31: Society in Flux

Identify the following terms:

SNCC

Watts Riots

Cesar Chavez

AIM

SDS

Hippies

The Feminine Mystique

Roe v Wade

Chapter 32: Running on Empty

Identify the following terms:

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Camp David Agreement

Recession

Iranian Crisis

Ronald Reagan

Reagonomics

George H. W. Bush

Gulf War

Whitewater

Bill Clinton

Chapter 33: Crimes and Misdemeanors

Identify the following terms:

Exam 3