AMERICAN HISTORY SEMESTER FINAL STUDY GUIDE

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1 AMERICAN HISTORY SEMESTER FINAL STUDY GUIDE Reconstruction and the West 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Dawes Act Homestead Act manifest destiny 2. Be able to explain why the near-extermination of the buffalo was so harmful to Native Americans. 3. Know what the biggest problem was that farmers settling out west faced, and why. 4. Be able to explain what farmers decided to do about that problem, and how they planned to do it. Industrialization John D. Rockefeller JP Morgan Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt Thomas Edison Henry Ford 2. Be able to explain why many of the "titans of industry" were also sometimes called "robber barons." 3. Be able to explain what a monopoly is, and why you would want to have one if you owned a business. 4. Be able to explain what laissez faire means, and how it applied to business in the late 1800s/early 1900s. 5. Be familiar with the natural resources and products that helped fuel America industrialize.

2 Immigration and Urbanization urban suburban rural urbanization 2. Know why so many people began moving to the cities - both Americans and immigrants. 3. Be able to describe three different kinds of neighborhoods that formed in the cities as they grew. 4. Know the difference between a push and a pull factor, and provide an example of each for African Americans. 5. Be able to list and describe four problems that growing cities faced early on. 6. Know who Jacob Riis was, what he did that made him famous, and why he did it. 7. Be able to explain what a political machine is, why they existed, and one good and one bad thing they did. Progressivism 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson 2. Know what a muckraker is, and why (and how) they do what they do. 3. Be able to explain what it meant to be a progressive, and how they planned to achieve their goals. 4. Know six of that problems that different progressive groups wanted to fix.

3 American "Imperialism" 1. Know how the United States acquired Alaska, and why it turned out to be a good thing. 2. Know how the United States acquired Hawaii, and why it was so controversial. 3. Be able to describe two possible explanations for the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine. 4. Be able to explain three possible reasons why the U.S. fought the Spanish-American War. 5. Know three additional places that the U.S. gained or bought following the Spanish-American War. WWI and Treaty of Versailles 1. Be able to list and describe the four main causes of WWI. 2. Be able to list at least three Allied powers and at least two Central powers, and identify them on a map.

4 3. Know the two key events that led to America joining the war on the side of the Allied powers. 4. Know what propaganda is, and the ways that it was used in the United States. 5. Know the purpose of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and be able to list and describe at least two of them. 6. Know what the League of Nations was, and what it was supposed to do. 7. Know who had to accept all the blame for the war. 8. Be able to list and describe at least two of the punishments placed on Germany at the Treaty of Versailles. 9. Know the role of the U.S. Senate in dealing with all treaties. 10. Know what happened to the Treaty of Versailles when Wilson brought it back to the U.S., and why. Post-WWI Unrest 1. Know the three causes of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919, and the key event that set them off. 2. Be able to explain how a command economy works by answering these three questions: Who decides what to produce? Who decides how to produce it? Who decides who gets it? 3. Be able to describe what communism is, and why so many Americans were afraid of and against it. 4. What two key trends caused the "Red Scare" in America? 5. What caused the Palmer Raids, who got targeted the most, and what happened to them? 6. Why did many Americans want to severely limit immigration starting around 1919? 7. Why were many people around the world outraged when Sacco and Vanzetti were executed?

5 The Roaring Twenties flapper white-collar blue-collar installment plan jazz stock 2. Know what Warren Harding's presidential campaign slogan was, and be able to explain why it was popular. 3. Know what, according to Calvin Coolidge, was the "business of America," and what he meant. 4. Be able to describe the approach that presidents Harding and Coolidge took when dealing with business. 5. Know why Americans began having a lot more leisure time during the 1920s, and what they did with that time. 6. Be able to explain the concept of a national culture, and the role that radio and advertising had on creating it. 7. Be able to explain how advertising began to change Americans' attitudes toward possessions and each other. 8. Know what the Harlem Renaissance was, and be able to describe some of its achievements. 9. Know what prohibition was, why it passed, and some of its unintended consequences. 10. Be able to describe what it means to buy stock on margin, why someone would want to do it, and why it is risky.