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The Ridiculously Impossible Midterm Study Guide

Civil War/Reconstruction Slavery States rights Ostend Manifesto Territorial claims Abolitionist movement Regional differences Dred Scott decision Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Freeport Doctrine Anaconda Plan Gettysburg Gettysburg Address Vicksburg Emancipation Proclamation Thirteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Andrew Johnson Jefferson Davis Frederick Douglass Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee William T. Sherman Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth Radical Republicans Carpetbaggers Buffalo Soldiers Debt peonage Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Black legislators Ku Klux Klan The White League Red Shirts Suffrage Black Codes Jim Crow laws Nadir Sharecropping The West Reservation system Dawes Act Indian Schools Wounded Knee Massacre Sand Creek Massacre Battle of Little Big Horn Morrill Land Grant Act Homestead Act Gold Standard Bimetallism Populist Party Cross of Gold Farmers Alliance Grange Granger laws Unions Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor Socialist Party Labor Laws Capitalism Communism Anarchy Political machines Boss Tweed Tammany Hall George Plunkitt Thomas Nast

Industrial Revolution/Immigration Steel Bessemer Process Oil Railroads Telegraph Child Labor Pools Holding Companies Trusts Monopoly Corporations Vertical Integration Horizontal Integration Interstate Commerce Act Haymarket Riot Homestead Strike Pullman Strike Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison George Pullman Henry Ford Orville and Wilbur Wright George Westinghouse Lewis Latimer Jan Matzeliger Elijah McCoy Sarah Goode Social Darwinism Laissez-faire Migration to cities Urbanization Ellis Island Angel Island Push-pull factors Nativism Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemens Agreement with Japan Immigration Act of 1924 Social Gospel Settlement Houses

Progressivism NAACP YMCA muckrakers Womens Christian Temperance Union National Womens Suffrage Association Robert LaFollete Florence Kelley Sherman Antitrust Act Ida Tarbell Eugene Debs Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul Theodore Roosevelt William Taft Woodrow Wilson Upton Sinclair Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois Gifford Pinchot William Jennings Bryan Imperialism Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Turner Thesis Roosevelt Corollary Big Stick Diplomacy Natural resources Markets for resources Open Door Policy Spheres of influence in China

Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico Philippines Guam Samoa Marshall Islands Midway Island Virgin Islands Cuba Platt Amendment Yellow Journalism U.S.S. Maine Spanish-American War Teller Amendment Commodore Dewey Rough Riders Treaty of Paris Panama Canal Yellow fever Treaty of Portsmouth

World War I Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Alliance system Zimmerman Note Lusitania Sussex Pledge Unrestricted submarine warfare Selective Service Act Home Front Women in WWI African Americans in WWI Big Four

New technology in WWI Trench Warfare propaganda American Expeditionary Force Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles Isolationism War Industries Board War bonds Espionage Act Sedition Act Committee of Public Information Trench Warfare Convoys Conscientious objectors War impact on minorities reparations armistice Treaty of Versailles League of Nations Article X

1920s/Great Depression Sacco and Vanzetti Anarchists Palmer Raids Communists Red Scare Dawes Plan Federal Bureau of Investigation Return to normalcy J. Edgar Hoover Depression of 1920-21 Great Migration

Tariffs Teapot Dome Scandal The Business of America is Business Assembly line Consumerism Washington Naval Conference London Conference Kellogg-Briand Pact Nobel Prize Rosewood Incident Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes Fundamentalism Scopes Trial Prohibition 18th Amendment Flappers 19th Amendment Volstead Act Fordney-McCumber Act Jazz Age Louis Armstrong W.E.B. DuBois NAACP Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association Booker T. Washington Ku Klux Klan 100% Americanism Causes of the Great Depression

pick 50 of these that you are not confident in, and give me a definition & historical significance for each

Things you should be able to do:


Review causes and consequences of the Civil War. Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction. Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13 th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups. Compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze the sharecropping system and debt peonage as practiced in the United States. Review the Native American experience. Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century. Compare the first and second Industrial Revolutions in the United States. Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business practices affected the United States economy. Identify significant inventors of the Industrial Revolution including African Americans and women. Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society. Compare the experience of European immigrants in the east to that of Asian immigrants in the west. Examine the importance of social change and reform in the late 19 th and early 20th centuries. Examine causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19 th and early 20th centuries. Review different economic and philosophic ideologies. Analyze the impact of political machines in United States cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Compare how different nongovernmental organizations and progressives worked to shape public policy, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life. Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism. Explain the motives of the United States acquisition of the territories. Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish American War. Analyze the economic, military, and security motivations of the United States to complete the Panama Canal as well as major obstacles involved in its construction. Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I. Examine how the United States government prepared the nation for war with war measures. Examine the impact of airplanes, battleships, new weaponry, and chemical warfare in creating new war strategies. Compare the experiences Americans had while serving in Europe. Compare how the war impacted German Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, women and dissenters in the United States. Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the United States to support the League of Nations. Explain the causes of the public reaction associated with the Red Scare. Examine the impact of United States foreign economic policy during the 1920s. Evaluate how the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties changed consumers, businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices. Describe efforts by the United States and other world powers to avoid future wars. Analyze the influence that Hollywood, the Harlem Renaissance, the Fundamentalist movement, and Prohibition had in changing American society in the 1920s. Examine the freedom movements that advocated civil rights for African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women. Compare the views of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey relating to the African American experience. Explain why support for the Ku Klux Klan varied in the 1920s with respect to issues such as anti-immigration, anti-African America, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-women, and anti-union ideas. Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities. Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.

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