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US History I Final Exam (Topic 11 - Topic 14) STUDY GUIDE

|1. suffrage |

|2. muckraker |

|3. direct primary |

|4. recall |

5. Why did Theodore Roosevelt call socially conscious writers “muckrakers”?

6. What was the purpose of the Eighteenth Amendment?

7. What was the goal of the Progressive Americanization efforts?

8. How did President Theodore Roosevelt earn a reputation as a trustbuster?

|9. imperialism |

|10. Alfred T. Mahan |

|11. Social Darwinism |

12. Why was the United States less concerned with developing extractive economies than European empires were?

13. Why did President Cleveland refuse to sign a treaty to annex Hawaii?

14. How did the Yellow Press affect American sentiment toward the crisis in Cuba?

15. Which group of soldiers did Theodore Roosevelt lead during the Spanish-American War?

|16. William Randolph Hearst |

|17. jingoism |

|18. dollar diplomacy |

19. What happened as a result of the Foraker Act?

|20. Western Front |

|21. U-boat |

|22. contraband |

|23. Zimmerman Note |

24. What incident triggered World War I?

25. What was the main reason for the United States to stay neutral at the start of World War I?

26. What was an underlying cause of World War I?

27. How did World War I affect the U.S. economy?

28. The Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, and the Selective Service Act all raised constitutional issues related to what part of the Constitution?

|29. convoy |

|30. reparations |

31. What did General Pershing want the American Expeditionary Forces to do during World War I?

32. How did the Allies counteract Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare during WWI?

|33. Installment buying |

|34. inflation |

|35. Buying on margin |

36. How were farmers affected by the nation’s economic growth during the 1920s?

37. What idea did Warren G. Harding campaign successfully on in the presidential election of 1920?

|38. Teapot Dome Scandal |

|39. Calvin Coolidge |

|40. Kellogg-Briand Pact |

|41. Warren G. Harding |

42. How did President Harding's policies compare to those of President Wilson?

43. What was the effect of the Teapot Dome scandal?

|44. Scopes Trial |

|45. Prohibition |

|46. Volstead Act |

|47. quota system |

48. What effect did the Twenty-first Amendment have on the sale of illegal alcohol in the United States?

|49. Charlie Chaplin |

|50. Babe Ruth |

|51. The Jazz Singer |

|52. Charles Lindbergh |

53. How did radio affect American society during the 1920s?

54. How did many American women experience change during the 1920s?

55. What did President Coolidge support?

|56. Herbert Hoover |

|57. Black Tuesday |

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58. How did the Great Depression affect American workers?

59. What happened to banks in the early 1930s?

60. Which region experienced the most severe effects of the Dust Bowl?

61. How did President Roosevelt’s first fireside chats affect Americans?

|62. Works Progress Administration (WPA) |

|63. court packing |

|64. collective bargaining |

65. Why did President Roosevelt refuse to support a federal anti-lynching law?

66. Why did Roosevelt’s presidency prompt the passage of the Twenty-second Amendment?

67. How did voting patterns change during the 1930s?

68. Why did mass entertainment become such big business during the 1930s?

|69. Axis Powers |

|70. Allied Powers |

|71. Neutrality Act of 1939 |

|72. Lend-Lease Act |

|73. Joseph Stalin |

|74. Benito Mussolini |

|75. Francisco Franco |

|76. Adolf Hitler |

77. What was the result of the Treaty of Versailles?

78. Which countries took an isolationist approach to foreign policy in the 1930s?

79. How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 differ from the previous Neutrality Acts passed by Congress in

1935, 1936, and 1937?

80. What was effectively an economic declaration of war against Germany and the Axis Powers?

|81. George Marshall |

|82. Hideko Tojo |

|83. Douglas MacArthur |

|84. Pearl Harbor |

85. What happened after the U.S. entered WWII?

|86. unconditional surrender |

|87. saturation bombing |

|88. strategic bombing |

|89. Battle of Midway |

90. Why is the Battle of Midway is considered one of the major turning points of WWII?

91. What was Executive Order 9066?

92. How were the Allies able to keep the planned invasion at Normandy a secret from the Nazis?

93. What was the result of the Battle of the Bulge?

94. What was the most important factor in Truman’s decision to drop the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima?

95. Why were Jewish refugees on the ocean liner St. Louis turned away while trying to enter the United States in 1939?

96. Why did the Allies refuse to bomb railway lines to the Nazi death camps?

97. What major advantage did the United States possess over the Soviet Union following the war?

98. The main idea behind the United Nations was to:

99. After the war, what was the role of the United States?

100. What happened to many Eastern European countries after World War II?

SEMESTER I EXAM SCHEDULE

January 22, 2020: 1st & 2nd Hour Exams

January 23, 2020: 3rd and 4th Hour Exams

January 24, 2020: 5th and 6th Hour Exams

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