Unit #1 The New Nation: 1789-1815



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Exam Review Packet

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Attached you will find (7 pages of ) 12 Vocabulary Lists; a series of Concept Questions; and a set of Multiple Choice Practice Questions. Your assignment is to:

Review the Vocabulary, looking for topics you do not know, - Write the Definition for at least FIVE Vocabulary terms PER Vocabulary List (12) next to the vocabulary term on the Packet (HINT: do terms you do NOT know, rather than those you do know).

Write Complete Sentence Answers to ALL of the Concept Questions in the space provided. You may (should) use the vocabulary lists, class notes, and textbooks to help you in this task.

Answer ALL of the Multiple Choice Questions. You may write on this packet, but you will transfer your answer on the due Date, Thursday, May 26, to a Scantron Sheet

This review Packet will count as two 4th Quarter Test Grades:

Written portion (Parts 1 and 2) = One Test Grade

Multiple Choice (Part 3) = One test grade

Here’s the Good News: You will have every day in class from May 16 – 26, as well as time at home to complete this Review Packet Assignment. Moreover, while you may NOT copy someone’s work, you may discuss with me and work with each other to complete the assignment.

Other Due Dates to Remember:

Current Events Projects are due on or before Friday, May 20.

4th Quarter Writing Notebooks (ENTRIES 53-63) – are due on or before Tuesday, May 24. I will be keeping your Writing Notebooks after they are collected.

VOCABULARY

Unit 1A: Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Radical/Military Reconstruction

Stevens and Sumner

13th Amendment

14th and 15th Amendment

Carpetbagger

Scalawag

Impeachment of A. Johnson/tenure of Office Act

Presidential Reconstruction

10% Plan

Freedmen’s Bureau

Sharecropping

Black Codes

End of Reconstruction

Compromise of 1877

Jim Crow Laws

Grandfather clause

Unit 1B: The Great West

Migration Factors

Exodusters

Homestead Act

Morrill Act

Promontory Point

Comstock Lode

Cattle Long Drives

1890 the frontier is declared closed.

Native Americanss

Assimilation/Dawes Act

Chief Joseph

Wounded Knee / Ghost Dance

Little Big Horn

Decline of the Buffalo

Rise and Fall of Populism

Farm Problems: Surplus Food railroad rates

Grange

Bimettalism/ Unlimited Coinage of Silver

Election of 1896

William Jennings Bryan cross of Gold Speech

Technology

Barbed Wire

Refrigerated Rail Car

A Century of Dishonor

Reservation System

Unit 2A: The Gilded Age

(The Rise of Industry)

Technology

Elevator

Assembly Line

(Electric) Trolley

Telephone

Oil Well

Bessemer Process

Big Business

J.P. Morgan

Andrew Carnegie

John Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Laissez Faire

Social Darwinism

Trust

Cartel

Gospel of Wealth

Horatio Alger

Horizontal Integration

Vertical Integration

Legislation

Sherman Antitrust Act

Interstate Commerce act

Immigration and Urbanization

Ellis Island/ Angel Island

Chinese Exclusion Act

Ghetto

Tenement

Jane Addams

Jacob Riis

Frederick Olmstead

Labor Unions/ Strikes

AFL

Knights of Labor

Yellow Dog Contract

Haymarket Square Riot

Pullman Strike

Homestead Strike

Injunction

Scab/ Strike Breaker

Government

Political Machine

Graft

Thomas Nast

Tweed Ring/ Tammany Hall

Whiskey Ring

Credit Mobilier

Unit 2B: The Progressive Era

(1900-1917)

People

Upton Sinclair

Ida Tarbell

Carrie Nation

Robert Lafollette

Muckrakers

Teddy Roosevelt

Coal Strike

Northern Securities Company

Pure Food and Drug Act

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve Act

Clayton Act

Federal trade Commission

Amendments

16th

17th

18th

19th

Events

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

Election of 1912 Bull Moose Party

Technology

Mail Order Catalogs

African Americans

Booker T Washington / Atlanta Compromise

W.E.B. Dubois

Niagara Movement

NAACP

Ida Wells Barnett

Jim Crow Legislation

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Unit 3A: The Emergence of the US in World Affairs (1890-1914)

Imperialism

Alfred Mahan’s Large Navy Policy

Josiah, Strong

White Man’s Burden

Seward’s Folly

Queen Liliuokalani

Sphere of Influence

Open Door Policy

Boxer Rebellion

Economic Reasons (Markets and Raw Materials)

Foreign Policy

Big Stick Policy

Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Dollar Diplomacy

Pancho Villa

Spanish American War

USS Maine

Yellow Journalism

Jingoism

Rough Riders

Treaty of Paris (Spanish American War)

Platt Amendment

Unit 3B: WW1 and its Aftermath (1914-1920)

US Entry

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Lusitania

Zimmerman Note

Bolshevik Revolution

Make the World Safe for Democracy

Peace Conference

14 Points

League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

Reparations

Mobilization

Selective Service

CPI/ Creel Committee

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Schenk vs. US

John Pershing/ AEF Forces

Social Changes

Great Migration

Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Sacco and Vanzetti

Immigration Quotas

Unit 4: The Roaring 20’s,

The Great Depression,

and The New Deal

Economy

Normalcy

Teapot Dome Scandal

Installment Plans

Other Factors/ Tariffs/ Laissez Faire

Trickle Down Theory

Henry Ford Automobile

Great Depression

Rugged Individualism

New Deal

Dust Bowl

Bonus Army

Fireside Chat

Hoovervilles

Courtpacking

Social/Cultural

Entertainment-Jazz, Radio, Movie, Sports

Lost Generation

Speakeasies

Flappers

Harlem Renaissance

Scopes Trial

Charles Lindbergh

Marcus Garvey

Agencies/Legislation

CCC

SEC

FDIC

AAA

PWA

TVA

Wagner Act

Social Security

Unit 5: World War 2

(1930s to 1945)

Pre US Entry

Munich Conference/ Appeasement

Non-Aggression Pact

Quarantine Speech

Neutrality Acts

Lend Lease

Pearl Harbor

Blitzkrieg

Leaders

FDR/Truman

Churchill

Stalin

Eisenhower

MacArthur

Patton

Events

Midway

Stalingrad

D-Day/Operation Overlord

Battle of the Bulge

Island Hopping

Manhattan Project

Potsdam Conference

Yalta Conference

Nuremberg Trials

Social

Internment

Korematsu v US

Rosie the Riveter

A. P. Randolph/Double V campaign

Unit 6: The Cold War and 1950s Culture (1945-1960)

Containment

Marshall Plan

Truman Doctrine

Korean Conflict

Berlin Airlift

Eisenhower Doctrine

Cold War

Iron Curtain

CIA

NATO/Warsaw Pact

Sputnik

U-2 Incident

H-Bomb/ Duck and Cover

Nikita Khrushchev

Fidel Castro

Red Scare/Disloyalty

McCarthyism

Rosenbergs

Alger Hiss

HUAC/Hollywood 10

Economy

Taft Hartley Act

Levittowns

National Highway Act

GI Bill of Rights

Baby boom

Social/Cultural

Rock n’ Roll

Television

Women

Civil Rights

Jackie Robinson

Brown vs. Board of Education

Thurgood Marshall

Montgomery Bus Boycott

SCLC

Little Rock Central High School

Truman’s Executive Order

Unit 7A: The 1960s

Presidents

Kennedy

Johnson (LBJ)

Nixon

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Geneva Accords

SEATO

Vietcong

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Agent Orange

Operation Rolling Thunder

My Lai

Vietnamization

Tet Offensive

Kent State University

1968 Democratic Convention

Pentagon Papers

Cold War (cont.)

Neil Armstrong / Apollo Program

Peace Corps

Alliance for Progress

Berlin Wall

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Civil Rights (cont.)

Sit Ins/CNCC

Freedom Riders

James Meredith

Civil Rights Act 1964

Voting Rights Act 1965

Freedom Summer

Selma to Montgomery March

Black Power

Black Panthers

Malcolm X

24th Amendment

March on Washington

Social/Cultural

Cesar Chavez

Rachel Carson

Ralph Nader

Betty Friedan

SDS

Counterculture

Haight Ashbury District

LBJ’s Great Society

Unit 7B: The 1970s

Presidents

Nixon

Ford

Carter

Vocabulary

Camp David Accords

Roe v. Wade

EPA

Stagflation

War Powers Act

26th Amendment

Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg

University of California v. Bakke

Détente

SALT

Iran Hostage Crisis

Arab Oil Embargo

Three Mile Island

Unit 8: The 1980s to Present

Presidents

Reagan

George HW Bush

Clinton

George W Bush

Vocabulary

New Right

Moral Majority

Reaganomics

SDI

Sandra Day O’Connor

Mikhail Gorbachev

Grenada

Beirut

AIDS

Iran Contra Scandal

Clarence Thomas

Tianamen Square

INF Treaty

Panama Invasion

Operation Desert Storm

Ross Perot

Brady Bill

NAFTA

Newt Gingrich

Somalia

Haiti

Bosnia

9/11

Al Qaeda

Taliban

Patriot Act

Dept. of Homeland Security

Operation Iraqi Freedom

II. CONCEPT QUESTIONS:

Unit 1: Reconstruction and The Great West

1. What were the various plans for Reconstruction?

2. Why is reconstruction considered to be a failure?

3. What factors are responsible for the post civil War westward migration?

4. What factors are responsible for the rise and fall of populism?

Unit 2A: The Gilded Aged (The Rise of Industry)

1. Name 3 Robber Barons and the businesses they are associated with.

2. Where are the “New Immigrants” from and where do they settle

3. Give 3 examples of famous union strikes. What happened during those strikes?

4. Who is Thomas Nast? Why is he important?

6. How did big business gain power and control during the Gilded Age?

7. Why did Americans dislike the “New Immigrants?”

8. Why were cities a horrible place to live during the Gilded Age?

9. Why were labor Unions and strikes ineffective?

10. Why was government ineffective at dealing with Gilded Age issues?

11. How did African Americans deal with segregation and discrimination during this time period?

Unit 2B: The Progressive Era: 1900-1920

1. Who were the Muckrakers?

2. Name one reformed associated with TR, Taft, and Wilson

3. What did WEB Dubois and Booker T Washington believe about Civil Rights?

4. What reforms were enacted to make politics more responsive to the Public Will?

5. What reforms were enacted to limit the power of Big Business?

6. What reforms were enacted to improve the living conditions in the cities?

Unit 3A: US Emergence in World Affairs (Imperialism) 1865-1914

1. How did the US gain Hawaii during the imperial era?

2. What is the open door policy?

3. What did the Platt amendment say?

4. Explain the Political, Social, and Economic Reasons for Imperialism?

5. Why did the US got to war with Spain in 1898?

6. Why and how did the US become actively involved in Latin America during this time period?

Unit 3B: The Roaring 20’s, Depression, and New Deal

1. What is trickle down economic theory?

2. Who are the lost generation?

3. What is the dust bowl?

4. What is the difference between the first and second new deal?

5. What factors are responsible for the booming economy of the 1920s?

6. Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender during the 1920s.

7. Explain the concept of mass culture that developed during the 1920s.

8. Explain different factors that are responsible for the great depression.

9. How did the role of government change during the depression?

10. Identify and explain major reforms enacted during the 1930s.

Unit 4: World War 2 (1930s to 1945)

1. What happened at the Munich Conference in the 1930s?

2. What is the Lend Lease act?

3. What event brought the United States into WW2?

4. How did the US respond to the Crisis of the 1930s?

5. How did the allies defeat Germany?

6. How were minority groups impacted by the war?

7. Why did the US use Nuclear Weapons at the end of the war?

8. Where and how does a Cold War develop?

Units 5-8: 1945- Current

1. Where and how was the US successful in containing communism?

2. Where and how were African Americans successful in Civil Rights achievements?

3. What factors are responsible for the booming economy of the 1950s?

4. Identify Social and cultural challenges in the decade of the 1950s.

5. Why did the US get involved in Vietnam?

6. Why did Americans protest the War in Vietnam?

7. Why are the 1960’s considered a liberal decade?

8. Why did Americans lose faith in the US government during the 1970s?

9. How/Why was the 1980s a conservative period?

10. Why did Cold War tensions decline in the 1970s, and then increase in the 1980s?

III. MULTIPLE CHOICE

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