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