AP US History (Period 5) Assignments
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UNIT 19 – Contemporary America
Chapter 41:
1. Describe the rise of Reagan and the “new right” in the 1980s, including the controversies over racial and social issues.
2. Explain the “Reagan revolution” in economic policy and indicate its immediate and long-term consequences.
3. Describe the revival of the Cold War in Reagan’s first term.
4. Discuss the American entanglement in Central American and Middle Eastern troubles, including the Iran-Contra affair.
5. Describe the end of the Cold War, and the results for American society abroad and at home.
6. Explain America’s growing involvement in Middle East conflict, including the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.
7. Explain the Clinton victory in 1992, and Clinton’s attempt to navigate between traditional Democratic values and resurgent right in the Republican Party.
8. Recount the successes and failures of the Clinton administration, and the causes and consequences of his impeachment.
Chapter 42:
9. Describe the changing shape of the American economy and work force, and the new challenges facing the United States in an international economy during the “information age.”
10. Explain the changing roles of women since WWII and the impact of those changes on American society.
11. Analyze the difficulties affecting the American family, and explain the new power of the elderly.
12. Describe the impact of the newest wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America and the growing voice of minorities in American society.
13. Describe the difficulties and challenges facing American cities, including poverty and drug abuse.
14. Describe the changing condition of African-Americans in American politics and society.
15. Discuss the major developments in American culture and the arts since WWII.
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Chapters 41-42 - Unit 19
1. Neoconservatism
2. Supply side economics
3. Welfare state
4. UC Regents v. Bakke
5. Glasnost
6. Perestroika
7. Iran Contra affair
8. "new right" movement
9. NAFTA
10. Equal Rights Amendment
11. Sandra Day O'Conner
12. Oliver North
13. Mikhail Gorbachev
14. George Bush, Sr.
15. Saddam Hussein
16. George Walker Bush
17. Clarence Thomas
18. William Clinton
19. H. Ross Perot
20. Newt Gingrich
21. Albert Gore
22. Undocumented immigrants
23. Moral Majority
24. "Star Wars" (not the movie)
25. Whitewater scandal
26. Columbine high school
27. Green Party
28. United Farm Workers
29. Norman Schwarzkopf
30. Colin Powell
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UNIT 18 – The Stormy Sixties and Stalemated Seventies
Chapter 39:
1. Describe the high expectations Kennedy’s New Frontier aroused and the political obstacles it encountered.
2. Analyze the theory and practice of Kennedy’s doctrine of “flexible response” in Asia and Latin America.
3. Describe Johnson’s succession to the presidency in 1963, his electoral landslide over Goldwater in 1964, and his Great Society successes of 1965.
4. Discuss the course of the black movement of the 1960s, from civil rights to Black Power.
5. Indicate how Johnson led the United States deeper into the Vietnam quagmire.
6. Explain how the Vietnam War brought turmoil to American society and eventually drove Johnson and the divided Democrats from power in 1968.
7. Describe the cultural rebellions of the 1960s, and indicate their short-term and long-term consequences.
Chapter 40:
8. Describe Nixon’s policies toward the war in Vietnam and Cambodia.
9. Analyze Nixon’s domestic policies and his appeal to the “silent majority.”
10. Describe the American withdrawal from Vietnam, the final Communist victory there, and the “new isolationism” represented by the War Powers Act.
11. Discuss the Watergate scandals and Nixon’s resignation.
12. Explain the related economic, energy and Middle East crises of the 1970s and indicate how Nixon, Ford, and Carter attempted to deal with them.
13. Analyze the successes and failures of détente with Moscow and the opening to Beijing (Peking) pursued by the America administrations of the 1970s.
14. Describe the rise of the new feminist movement, and the gains and setbacks for women and minorities in the 1970s.
15. Discuss the Iranian crisis and its political consequences for Carter.
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Chapters 39-40 - Unit 18
1. "The Great Society"
2. "The New Frontier"
3. "War on poverty"
4. "Hawks" & "Doves"
5. 16th Street Baptist church
6. 1960 Presidential debates
7. Ayatollah Khomeini
8. Barry Goldwater
9. Bay of Pigs invasion
10. Berlin Wall
11. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
12. Brown v. Board of Education
13. Camp David Agreement, 1978
14. CORE
15. Cuban Missile Crisis
16. Détente
17. Dien Bien Phu
18. Earl Warren
19. Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
20. Emmett Till
21. Energy Crisis
22. Eugene McCarthy
23. Executive privilege
24. Fidel Castro
25. G. Gordon Liddy
26. George McGovern
27. George Wallace
28. Gerald Ford
29. Gov. Orval Faubus
30. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
31. H. R. Haldeman
32. Harry Blackmun
33. Helsinki Accords
34. Henry Cabot Lodge
35. Henry Kissinger
36. Hubert Humphrey
37. Iranian Hostage Crisis
38. J. William Fullbright
39. Jack Ruby
40. Jackson State University
41. JFK
42. Jimmy Carter
43. John Dean III
44. John Foster Dulles
45. Kent State University
46. LBJ
47. Lee Harvey Oswald
48. "Little Rock Nine"
49. Martin Luther King, Jr.
50. Medgar Evers
51. Military-Industrial Complex
52. Miranda v. Arizona
53. My Lai Massacre
54. NAACP
55. Nelson Rockefeller
56. Ngo Dinh Diem
57. Nixon visits China
58. Nixon's Latin Am. Tour
59. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
60. October War
61. OPEC & the 1970s oil crisis
62. Panama Canal Treaties
63. Peace Corps
64. US v. Nixon
65. RFK
66. Richard J. Daley
67. Richard M. Nixon
68. Roe v. Wade
69. S.A.L.T.
70. SCLC
71. Shah of Iran
72. Sirhan Sirhan
73. Spiro Agnew
74. Sputnik
75. Suez Crisis
76. Tet Offensive
77. Thomas Eagleton
78. Three Mile Island
79. Vietcong
80. War Powers Act
81. Warren Burger
82. Watergate
83. Voting Rights Act of 1965
84. Watts Riots
85. Civil Rights Act of 1968
86. Civil Rights Act of 1964
87. Apollo 9
88. Apollo 11
89. 27th Amendment
90. Pentagon Papers
91. "Saturday Night Massacre"
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Chapters 37-38 - Unit 17
1. "Iron Curtain"
2. "Baby Boom"
3. "Checkers" speech
4. "Containment" doctrine
5. "massive retaliation"
6. "Sunbelt"
7. 22nd Amendment
8. Adlai Stevenson
9. Admission of Alaska & Hawaii
10. Alban W. Barkley
11. Alger Hiss
12. Army-McCarthy hearings
13. Arthur H. Vandenberg
14. Berlin Airlift
15. Berlin blockade 1948
16. Bernard Baruch
17. Betty Friedan
18. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
19. CIA
20. Council of Economic Advisors
21. Dean Acheson
22. Dr. Benjamin Spock
23. Dwight Eisenhower
24. Earl Warren
25. Eisenhower Doctrine
26. Election of 1948
27. Elvis Presley
28. Emmitt Till
29. Employment Act (1946)
30. Executive Order 8802
31. Fair Deal
32. Federal Housing Administration
33. Fidel Castro
34. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
35. Geneva Conference (1954)
36. George F. Kennan
37. German occupation zones
38. GI Bill of Rights
39. Greenboro Sit-ins
40. Harry S Truman
41. H-Bomb
42. Henry A. Wallace
43. Hermann Goering
44. HUAC
45. International Monetary Fund
46. Interstate Highway Act
47. Iron Curtain
48. Jackie Robinson
49. James Hoffa
50. Jim Crow laws
51. Joe DiMaggio
52. John Foster Dulles
53. Kennedy-Nixon TV debates
54. Klaus Fuchs
55. Korea/38th parallel
56. Levittown
57. Little Rock Central High School
58. Marilyn Monroe
59. Marshall Plan
60. McCarran Internal Security Bill
61. Montgomery Bus Boycott
62. NAACP
63. NASA
64. National Defense and Education Act
65. National Security Act
66. NATO
67. Nikita Khrushchev
68. NSC
69. NSC-68
70. Nuremberg Trials
71. OPEC
72. Orval Faubus
73. Point Four Program
74. Recognition of Israel
75. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
76. Richard Nixon
77. Rodgers & Hammerstein
78. Rosa Parks
79. Rosenberg Trial
80. Selective service system 1948
81. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
82. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
83. Soviet A-bomb
84. Sputnik
85. Strategic Air Command
86. Strom Thurmond
87. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
88. Suez crisis
89. Taft-Hartley Act
90. Thomas E. Dewey
91. Thurgood Marshall
92. Truman Doctrine
93. U2 spy plane
94. United Nations
95. Warsaw Pact
96. Whittaker Chambers
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UNIT 17 – The Cold War Begins & The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 37:
1. Describe the economic transformations of the immediate post-World War II era.
2. Describe the postwar migrations to the “Sunbelt” and the suburbs.
3. Explain changes in the American population structure brought about by the “baby boom.”
4. Explain the growth of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after Roosevelt’s death and Germany’s defeat.
5. Describe the early Cold War conflicts over Germany and Eastern Europe.
6. Discuss American efforts to “contain” the Soviets through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO.
7. Discuss the expansion of the Cold War to Asia and the Korean War.
8. Analyze the postwar domestic climate in America and explain the growing fear of internal Communist subversion.
Chapter 38:
9. Explain how Eisenhower’s leadership coincided with the American mood of the 1950s.
10. Describe Eisenhower’s initially hesitant reactions to McCarthyism and the early civil rights movements.
11. Describe the approach that Eisenhower and Dulles took to the Cold War and nuclear policy.
12. List the basic elements of Eisenhower’s foreign policy in Vietnam, Europe, and the Middle East.
13. Describe the vigorous challenges Eisenhower faced from the Soviet Union and indicate how he responded to them.
14. Describe the new American economy of the 1950s.
15. Explain the changes in American “mass culture” in the 1950s, including the rise of television and the computer.
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UNIT 16 – The Second World War
Chapter 35:
1. Describe U.S. isolationist motives and effects of FDR’s early foreign policy.
2. Explain how American isolationism dominated US policy in the mid-1930s.
3. Explain how America gradually began to respond to the threat from totalitarian aggression while still trying to stay neutral.
4. Describe Roosevelt’s increasingly bold moves toward aiding Britain in the fight against Hitler and the sharp disagreements these efforts caused at home.
5. Discuss the events and diplomatic issues in the Japanese-American conflict that led up to Pearl Harbor.
Chapter 36:
6. Describe how America reacted to Pearly Harbor and prepared to wage war against both Germany and Japan.
7. Describe the domestic mobilization for war.
8. Describe the war’s effects on American society, including regional migration, race relations, and women’s roles.
9. Explain the early Japanese successes in Asia and the Pacific and the American strategy for countering them.
10. Describe the early Allies efforts against the Axis powers in North Africa and Italy.
11. Discuss FDR’s 1944 forth-term election victory.
12. Explain the final military efforts that brought Allied victory in Europe and Asia and the significance of the atomic bomb.
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Chapters 35-36 - Unit 16
1. Five Power Pact
2. Four Power Pact
3. Geneva Naval Conference
4. Kellogg-Briand Pact
5. Merchant Marine Act
6. Nine Power Pact
7. Reparations payments
8. Washington Disarmament Conference
9. Normandy Invasion
10. Montevideo Conference
11. Manhattan Project
12. Neutrality Acts
13. Harry S. Truman
14. Destroyers for bases deal
15. Smith-Connally Act
16. Good Neighbor Policy
17. Battle of the Bulge
18. Air war over Europe
19. Battle of Stalingrad
20. Battle of Britain
21. Fall of France
22. London Naval Conference
23. Spanish Civil War
24. Austrian Anschluss
25. Lend-Lease Act
26. Bataan Death March
27. Invasion of Pearl Harbor
28. Battle of Midway
29. Battle of Coral Sea
30. Battle of Guadalcanal
31. Battle of Leyte Gulf
32. Battle of Okinawa
33. Battle of Iwo Jima
34. Hiroshima bombing
35. Nagasaki bombing
36. Battle of Berlin
37. General George C. Marshall
38. Winston Churchill
39. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
40. General George Patton
41. General Douglas MacArthur
42. Admiral Chester Nimitz
43. General Marshal Rommel
44. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
45. Emperor Hirohito
46. Casablanca Conference
47. Cairo Conference
48. Potsdam Conference
49. Yalta Conference
50. Tehran Conference
51. Dumbarton Oaks Conference
52. Joseph Stalin
53. Adolph Hitler
54. General Curtis Lemay
55. Thomas E. Dewey
56. FDR's Quarantine speech
57. Panay incident
58. Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact 1939
59. SEATO
60. NATO
61. United Nations
62. Rosenberg Trial
63. War Crimes Trials
64. Truman Doctrine
65. Cold War
66. Alger Hiss
67. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
68. Dean Acheson
69. "Iron Curtain"
70. Bernard Baruch
71. Alban W. Barkley
72. Point Four Program
73. Marshall Plan
74. Richard Nixon
75. Army-McCarthy Hearings
76. Joe DiMaggio
77. Rodgers & Hammerstein
78. Arthur H. Vandenberg
79. Jackie Robinson
80. Berlin Airlift
81. Missouri Gang
82. Klaus Fuchs
83. Whittaker Chambers
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UNIT 15 – The Great Depression & The New Deal
Chapter 33:
1. Analyze the domestic political conservatism and economic prosperity of the 1920s.
2. Explain the Republican administrations’ policies of isolationism, disarmament, and high-tariff protectionism.
3. Compare the easygoing corruption of the Harding administration with the straight-laced uprightness of his successor Coolidge.
4. Describe the international economic tangle of loans, war debts, and reparations and indicate how the US dealt with it.
5. Discuss how Hoover went from being a symbol of the twenties business success to a symbol of depression failure.
6. Explain how the stock market crash set off the deep and prolonged Great Depression.
7. Indicate how Hoover’s response to the depression was a combination of old-time individualism and the new view of federal responsibility for the economy.
Chapter 34:
8. Describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932.
9. Explain how the early New Deal pursued the “three R’s” of relief, recovery, and reform.
10. Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organizations.
11. Discuss the early New Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.
12. Describe the Supreme Court’s hostility to many New Deal programs and explain why FDR’s “Court-packing” plan failed.
13. Explain the political coalition that Roosevelt mobilized on behalf of the New Deal and the Democratic Party.
14. Discuss the changes the New Deal underwent in the late thirties and explain growing opposition to it.
15. Analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.
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Chapter 33-34 - Unit 15
1. Election of 1928
2. Herbert C. Hoover
3. Alfred E. Smith
4. Norman Thomas
5. Agricultural Marketing Act (1929)
6. Muscle Shoals controversy
7. Goerge W. Norris
8. Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam)
9. Bonneville Dam
10. Grand Coulee Dam
11. Dust Bowl
12. Stock Market Crash 1929
13. Panic of 1929
14. Home Loan Bank Act
15. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
16. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
17. Norris-LaGuardia Act
18. Veterans Administration Act
19. Bonus Army
20. Patman Bonus Bill
21. Election of 1932
22. Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. John N. Garner
24. New Deal
25. "Hundred Days"
26. "Brain Trust"
27. Eleanor Roosevelt
28. Henry A. Wallace
29. Harold L. Ickes
30. Frances Perkins
31. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
32. Jesse H. Jones
33. Fireside Chats
34. Emergency Banking Act
35. Bank Holiday (1933)
36. Glass-Steagall Banking Act
37. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
38. Economy Act
39. Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC)
40. Gold Reserve Act
41. Silver Purchase Act (1934)
42. Federal Securities Act
43. Securities Exchange Act
44. London Economic Conference
45. Reciprocity Trade Agreements Act
46. Export-Import Bank
47. Revenue Act of 1935
48. Adjusted Compensation Act (Bonus Act of 1936)
49. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA)
50. US v. Butler
51. Farm Relief and Inflation Act
52. Farm Credit Act
53. Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
54. Farm Mortgage Refinancing Act
55. Jones-Connally Farm Relief Act
56. Farm Mortgage Foreclosure Act
57. Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act (Frazier-Lemke Bankruptcy Act)
58. Rural Electrification Administration
59. Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act
60. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
61. Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act
62. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (2nd AAA)
63. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
64. Federal Emergency Relief Act
65. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
66. National Recovery Act (NRA of NIRA)
67. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US
68. Public Works Administration (PWA)
69. Civil Works Administration
70. Works Progress Administration (WPA)
71. Social Security Act
72. Townsend Plan
73. National Labor Board
74. Wagner-Connery Act (NLRA)
75. NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
76. Railroad Retirement Act
77. Railway Labor Act
78. Walsh-Healey Act (Public Contract Act)
79. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
80. John L. Lewis
81. Philip Murray
82. Sit down strikes
83. Unemployment Compensation
84. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
85. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
86. Election of 1936
87. Alfred M. Landon
88. 20th Amendment
89. Court Packing Plan
90. Recession of 1937
91. Fair Labor Standards Act (Wages and Hours Law)
92. US v. Darby
93. Fair Employment Practices Committee
94. Federal Security Agency
95. Hatch Act
96. Un-American Activities Committee
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UNIT 14 – World War I & The Roaring Twenties
Chapter 31:
1. Explain what cause America to enter World War I.
2. Describe how Wilsonian idealism turned the war into an ideological crusade that inspired fervor and overwhelmed dissent.
3. Discuss the mobilization of America for war.
4. Explain the consequences of World War I for labor, women, and African-Americans.
5. Describe America’s economic and military role in the war.
6. Analyze Wilson’s attempt to forge a peace based on his Fourteen Points and explain why developments at home and abroad forced him to compromise.
7. Discuss the opposition of Lodge and others to Wilson’s League and show how Wilson’s refusal to compromise doomed the Treaty of Versailles.
Chapter 32:
8. Analyze the movement toward social conservatism following World War I.
9. Describe the cultural conflicts over such issues as prohibition and evolution.
10. Discuss the rise of the mass-consumption economy, led by the automobile industry.
11. Describe the cultural revolution brought about by radio, films and changing sexual standards.
12. Explain how new ideas and values were reflected and promoted in the American literary renaissance of the 1920s.
13. Explain how the era’s cultural changes affected women and African-Americans.
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Chapters 31-32 - Unit 14
1. Central Powers
2. Allies
3. Lusitania
4. Arabic
5. Sussex
6. John J. Pershing
7. Kaiser Wilhelm II
8. Charles Evans Hughes
9. George Creel
10. Eugene V. Debs
11. Bernard Baruch
12. Herbert Hoover
13. Alice Paul
14. Henry Cabot Lodge
15. Warren G. Harding
16. Georges Clemenceau
17. Meuse-Argonne
18. Battle of Belleau-Wood
19. Battle of Chateau-Thierry
20. James M. Cox
21. Self-determination
22. Collective security
23. Conscription
24. "normalcy"
25. Zimmerman Note
26. Fourteen Points
27. League of Nations
28. Committee on Public Information
29. Espionage Act
30. Sedition Act
31. Trench warfare
32. Triple Alliance
33. Triple Entente
34. Second Battle of the Marne
35. The Saar Valley
36. Selective Service Act
37. Submarine Warfare
38. Sarajevo
39. The Armistice
40. Schenck v. United States
41. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
42. War Industries Board
43. Liberty Loans
44. 19th Amendment
45. 18th Amendment
46. Bolsheviks
47. Doughboys
48. Big Four
49. Irreconcilables
50. Treaty of Versailles
51. A. Mitchell Palmer
52. Al Capone
53. John Dewey
54. John T. Scopes
55. William Jennings Bryan
56. Clarence Darrow
57. Andrew Melton
58. Bruce Barton
59. Frederick W. Taylor
60. Charles Lindbergh
61. Margaret Sanger
62. Sigmund Freud
63. H.L. Mencken
64. F. Scott Fitzgerald
65. Ernest Hemingway
66. Sinclair Lewis
67. William Faulkner
68. Nativist
69. Progressive education
70. Buying on margin
71. Immigration Act of 1924
72. Model T
73. Jazz
74. Marcus Garvey
75. Henry Ford
76. Langston Hughes
77. Bible Belt
78. Red Scare
79. Sacco and Vanzetti case
80. Ku Klux Klan
81. Emergency Quota Act
82. Immigration Quota Act
83. Volstead Act
84. Fundamentalism
85. Modernists
86. "Flappers"
87. Florida land boom
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UNIT 13 – The Progressive Era
Chapter 29:
1. Discuss the origins and nature of the Progressive movement.
2. Describe how the early Progressive movement developed its roots at the city and state level.
3. Identify the critical role that women played in progressive social reform.
4. Tell how President Roosevelt began applying progressive principles to the national economy.
5. Explain why Taft’s policies offended Progressives, including Roosevelt.
6. Describe how Roosevelt led a Progressive revolt against Taft that openly divided the Republican Party.
Chapter 30:
7. Discuss the key issues of the pivotal 1912 election and the basic principles of Wilsonian progressivism.
8. Describe how Wilson successfully reformed the “triple wall of privilege.”
9. State the basic features of Wilson’s foreign policy and explain how they drew him into intervention in Latin America.
10. Describe America’s response to World War I and explain the increasingly sharp conflict over America’s policies toward Germany.
11. Explain how domestic and foreign controversies played into Wilson’s narrow victory over Hughes in 1916.
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Chapters 29-30 - Unit 13
1. "Rule of Reason"
2. 16th Amendment
3. 17th Amendment
4. 18th Amendment
5. 19th Amendment
6. Adamson Act
7. Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
8. Boston police Strike
9. Charles Evans Hughes
10. Clayton Antitrust Act
11. Conservation
12. David Lloyd George
13. Direct Primary
14. Dollar Diplomacy
15. Edith Cavell
16. Elkins Act
17. Eugene V. Debs
18. Federal Reserve Act
19. Federal Trade Commission
20. Florence Kelley
21. Frances Willard
22. Gifford Pinchot
23. Henry Demarest Lloyd
24. Hepburn Act
25. Hiram W. Johnson
26. I.W.W.
27. Ida M. Tarbell
28. Initiative petition
29. J.P. Morgan
30. Jacob Riis
31. Jane Addams
32. John J. Pershing
33. John Muir
34. Jones Act
35. Joseph G. Cannon
36. Lincoln Steffens
37. Lochner v. New York
38. Louis D. Brandeis
39. Mann-Elkins Act
40. Marshall Ferdinand Foch
41. Meat Inspection Act
42. Mitchell Palmer
43. Muckrakers
44. Muller v. Oregon
45. New Freedom
46. New Nationalism
47. Newlands Reclamation Act
48. Northern Securities case
49. Pancho Villa
50. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
51. Preservationism
52. Prohibition
53. Pure Food & Drug Act
54. Recall
55. Reed Smoot
56. Referendum
57. Richard Ballinger
58. Robert LaFollette
59. Sedition Act
60. Sierra Club
61. Temperance Movement
62. Theodore Dreiser
63. Theodore Roosevelt
64. Thorstein Veblem
65. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
66. Underwood-Simmons Tariff
67. Upton Sinclair
68. William Howard Taft
69. Women's Trade Union League
70. Woodrow Wilson
71. Workingman's Compensation Act
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UNIT 12 – The New Manifest Destiny
Chapter 27:
1. Explain why the United States suddenly abandoned its isolationism and turned outward at the end of the nineteenth century.
2. Indicate how the Venezuelan and Hawaiian affairs expressed the new American assertiveness as well as American ambivalence about foreign involvements.
3. Describe how America became involved with Cuba and explain why a reluctant President McKinley was forced to go to war with Spain.
4. State the unintended consequence of Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay.
5. Describe the easy American military conquest of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
6. Explain McKinley’s decision to keep the Philippines and list the opposing arguments in the debate about imperialism.
7. Analyze the long-term consequences and significance of the Spanish-American War.
Chapter 28:
8. Describe the Filipino rebellion against U.S. rule and the war to suppress it.
9. Explain the U.S. “Open Door” policy in China.
10. Discuss the significance of the “pro-imperialist” Republican victory in 1900 and the rise of Theodore Roosevelt as a strong advocate of American power in international affairs.
11. Describe the aggressive steps Roosevelt took to build a canal in Panama and explain why his “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine aroused such controversy.
12. Discuss Roosevelt’s other diplomatic achievements, particularly in relation to Japan.
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Terms Due today. Be prepared for a quiz on these (and possibly earlier ones too)
Chapters 27-28 - Unit 12
2. Geneva Convention (1882)
3. Reciprocity Treaty of 1875
4. McKinley Tariff (1890)
5. Queen Liliuokalani
6. Republic of Hawaii
7. Tripartite protectorate
8. Pan-Americanism
9. Bering Sea Controversy
10. James G. Blaine
11. Pan-American Union
12. Boer War
13. The Ten Years War (1868-1878)
14. Wilson-Gorham Tariff (1894)
15. Reconcentrados
16. De Lome Letter (1898)
17. San Juan Hill
18. Walter Reed
19. Sino-Japanese War
20. Our Country (a book)
21. Charles Darwin
22. William McKinley
23. Henry Cabot Lodge
24. Annexation of Hawaii
25. William Randolph Hearst
26. Joseph Pulitzer
27. Frederick Remington
28. Joseph Wheeler
29. Leon Czolgosz
30. Booker T. Washington
31. The Path Between the Seas
32. George Goethals
33. Panama Canal
34. Jingoism
35. The USS Maine
36. Theodore Roosevelt
37. Richard Olney
38. George Dewey
39. Insular Cases
40. Teller Amendment
41. Yellow Journalism
42. Rough Riders
43. Filipino Insurrection
44. Open Door Notes/Policy
45. Alaskan Boundary Disputes
46. Hawaiian Revolution
47. Cuban Revolution
48. Anti- Imperialist League
49. Dr. William C. Gorgas
50. John Hay
51. Battle of Manila
52. Treaty of 1898
53. Platt Amendment
54. Alfred T. Mahan
55. Samoan Crisis
56. Big Stick Policy
57. Boxer Rebellion
58. Roosevelt Corollary
59. Battle of Santiago
60. Gen. Valeriano Weyler
61. Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
62. Emilio Aguinaldo
63. Algeciras Conference
64. Hague Conference
65. Leonard Wood
66. Admiral Cervera
67. Elihu Root
68. William Howard Taft
69. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
70. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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UNIT 11 – Cities, The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 25:
1. Describe the new industrial city and its impact on American society.
2. Describe the “New Immigration” and explain why it aroused opposition from many native-born Americans.
3. Discuss the efforts of social reformers and churches to aid the New Immigrants and alleviate urban problems.
4. Analyze the changes in American religious life in the late nineteenth century.
5. Explain the changes in American education from the elementary to the college level.
6. Describe the literary and cultural life of the period, including the widespread trend toward “realism.”
7. Explain the growing national debates about morality in the late nineteenth century, particularly in relation to the changing roles of women and the family.
Chapter 26:
8. Describe the nature of the cultural conflicts and battles that accompanied the white American migration into the Great Plains and the Far West.
9. Explain the development of federal policy towards Native Americans in the late nineteenth century.
10. Analyze the brief flowering and decline of the cattle and mining frontiers.
11. Explain the impact of the closing of the frontier and the long-term significance of the frontier for American history.
12. Describe the revolutionary changes in farming on the Great Plains.
13. Describe the economic forced that drove farmers into debt, and describe how the Grange, the Farmers’ Alliances, and the Populist Party organized to protest their opposition.
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Chapters 25-26 - Unit 11
1. Jane Addams
2. Florence Kelley
3. Mary Baker Eddy
4. Charles Darwin
5. Booker T. Washington
6. W. E. B. Du Bois
7. William James
8. Henry George
9. Horatio Alger
10. Mark Twain
11. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12. Carrie Chapman Catt
13. Cardinal James Gibbons
14. Dwight L. Moody
15. megalopolis
16. settlement house
17. nativism
18. evolution
19. pragmatism
20. yellow journalism
21. New Immigration
22. social gospel
23. Hull House
24. American Protective Association
25. Salvation Army
26. Chautauqua movement
27. Morrill Act
28. Comstock Law
29. Women's Christian Temperance Union
30. Sitting Bull
31. George A. Custer
32. Chief Joseph
33. Geronimo
34. Helen Hunt Jackson
35. John Wesley Powell
36. Oliver H. Kelley
37. William Hope Harvey
38. Mary Elizabeth Lease
39. Frederick Jackson Turner
40. James B. Weaver
41. Jacob S. Coxey
42. Eugene V. Debs
43. William McKinley
44. Marcus Alonzo Hanna
45. Sioux Wars
46. Nez Percé
47. Apache
48. Ghost Dance
49. Battle of Wounded Knee
50. Dawes Severalty Act
51. Little Big Horn
52. Buffalo Soldiers
53. Comstock Lode
54. Long Drive
55. Homestead Act
56. Sooner State
57. safety-valve theory
58. Bonanza farms
59. National Grange
60. Granger laws
61. Farmers' Alliance
62. Populist (People's) Party
63. Coxey's Army
64. Pullman Strike
65. Cross of Gold speech
66. "16 to 1"
67. "fourth party system"
68. Dingley Tariff bill
69. Gold Standard Act
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From Tuesday 1/22:
Students may use their textbooks and/or notes to answer the following questions. Each question should be answered in a short essay (2-3 paragraphs)
1. What new opportunities did the cities create for Americans?
2. What new social problems did urbanization create? How did Americans respond to these problems?
From Wednesday 1/23:
The North
The West
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UNIT 10 – The Gilded Age & The Growth of Industry
Chapter 23:
1. Describe the political corruption of the Grant administration and the various efforts to clean up politics in the Gilded Age.
2. Describe the economic slump of the 1870s and the growing conflict between “hard-money” and “soft-money” advocates.
3. Explain the intense political activity of the Gilded Age, despite the low quality of political leadership and the agreement of the two parties on most issues.
4. Indicate how the disputed Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 led to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction.
5. Describe how the end of Reconstruction led to the loss of black rights and the imposition of the Jim Crow system of segregation in the South.
6. Explain the growth of class and ethnic conflict during the 1870s and after.
7. Describe the sharp personal and partisan clashes between Grover Cleveland and his Republican opponents.
8. Show how the rise of the Populists and the depression of the 1890s stirred growing social protests and class conflict
Chapter 24:
9. Explain how the transcontinental railroad network provided the basis for the great post-Civil War industrial transformation.
10. Identify the abuses in the railroad industry and discuss how these led to the first efforts at industrial regulation by the federal government.
11. Describe how the economy came to be dominated by giant “trusts,” such as those headed by Carnegie and Rockefeller in the steel and oil industries.
12. Discuss the growing class conflict caused by industrial growth and combination, and the early efforts to alleviate it.
13. Explain why the South was generally excluded from industrial development and fell into a “third world” economic dependency.
14. Analyze the social changes brought by industrialization, particularly the altered position of working men and women.
15. Explain the failures of the Knights of Labor and the modest success of the American Federation of Labor.
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Chapters 23-24 - Unit 10
1. Ulysses S. Grant
2. Horatio Seymour
3. Jim Fisk
4. Jay Gould
5. Thomas Nast
6. Horace Greeley
7. Jay Cooke
8. Roscoe Conkling
9. James G. Blaine
10. Rutherford B. Hayes
11. Samuel Tilden
12. James A. Garfield
13. Chester A. Arthur
14. Winfield S. Hancock
15. Charles J. Guiteau
16. Grover Cleveland
17. Benjamin Harrison
18. Thomas Reed
19. William McKinley
20. James B. Weaver
21. Tom Watson
22. Adlai E. Stevenson
23. William Jennings Bryan
24. J. P. Morgan
25. soft/cheap money
26. hard/sound money
27. Contraction (of the economy)
28. Resumption (of specie)
29. Gilded Age
30. crop-lien system
31. pork-barrel bills
32. populism
33. grandfather clause
34. "Ohio Idea"
35. the "bloody shirt"
36. Tweed Ring
37. Crédit Mobilier
38. Whiskey Ring
39. Liberal Republicans
40. "Crime of '73"
41. Bland-Allison Act
42. Greenback Labor party
43. Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
44. Stalwart
45. Half-Breed
46. Compromise of 1877
47. Pendleton Act
48. Mugwumps
49. "Redeemers"
50. Plessy v. Ferguson
51. Jim Crow
52. Chinese Exclusion Act
53. U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark
54. Billion-Dollar Congress
55. People's Party (Populists)
56. Sherman Silver Purchase Act
57. McKinley Tariff
58. Leland Stanford
59. Collis P. Huntington
60. James J. Hill
61. Cornelius Vanderbilt
62. Jay Gould
63. Alexander Graham Bell
64. Thomas Edison
65. Andrew Carnegie
66. John D. Rockefeller
67. J. Pierpont Morgan
68. Terence V. Powderly
69. John P. Altgeld
70. Samuel Gompers
71. land grant
72. “stock watering”
73. trust
74. interlocking directorate
75. Union Pacific Railroad
76. Central Pacific Railroad
77. Grange
78. Wabash case (Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois)
79. Bessemer process
80. United States Steel
81. gospel of wealth
82. William Graham Sumner
83. New South
84. yellow dog contract
85. National Labor Union
86. Haymarket riot
87. American Federation of Labor
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You need to have also read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States pages 1-210. There are questions related to this book throughout the exam. All of this reading is associated with units covered this semester so there is no additional reading required for this exam. Just review the material.
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UNIT 9 – Civil War & Reconstruction
Chapter 21:
1. Describe the failure of the North to gain its expected early victory in 1861.
2. Explain the significance of Antietam and the Northern turn to a “total war” against slavery.
3. Describe the role that African-Americans played during the war.
4. Describe the military significance of the battles of Gettysburg in the East and Vicksburg in the West.
5. Describe the political struggle between Lincoln’s “Union party” and the anti-war Copperheads.
6. Describe the end of the war and list its final consequences.
Chapter 22:
7. Define the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War.
8. Describe the responses of both whites and African-Americans to the end of slavery.
9. Analyze the differences between the presidential and congressional approaches to Reconstruction.
10. Explain how the blunders of President Johnson and the white South opened the door to more radical congressional Reconstruction policies.
11. Describe the actual effects of congressional Reconstruction in the South.
12. Indicate how militant white opposition gradually undermined the Republican attempt to empower southern blacks.
13. Explain why the radical Republicans impeached Johnson but failed to convict him.
14. Explain the legacy of Reconstruction, and assess its successes and failures.
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Chapters 21-22 - Unit 9
1. Clement L. Vallandigham
2. Andrew Johnson
3. John Wilkes Booth
4. Ambrose Burnside
5. Robert E. Lee
6. Thomas J. Jackson
7. Ulysses S. Grant
8. George B. McClellan
9. William T. Sherman
10. George B. Meade
11. Salmon P. Chase
12. David G. Farragut
13. George Pickett
14. Braxton Bragg
15. William C. Quantrill
16. Virginia (a.k.a. Merrimack)
17. Monitor
18. First Battle of Bull Run
19. Battle of Shiloh
20. Second Battle of Bull Run
21. Battle of Antietam
22. Emancipation Proclamation
23. Thirteenth Amendment
24. Copperheads
25. Union Party
26. 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
27. New battlefield technology introduced (choose 2-3 items)
28. Conscription Act (1863)
29. Battle of Chancellorsville
30. Siege of Vicksburg
31. Battle of Gettysburg
32. New York Draft Riots
33. Peninsular campaign
34. John B. Hood
35. Joseph E. Johnston
36. Destruction of Atlanta
37. Philip Sheridan
38. Appomattox Court House
39. Andersonville Prison
40. Costs of Civil War (financial and lives lost)
41. Oliver O. Howard
42. Andrew Johnson
43. Alexander Stephens
44. Charles Sumner
45. Thaddeus Stevens
46. William Seward
47. Freedman's Bureau
48. 10 percent plan
49. Wade-Davis bill
50. "conquered provinces"
51. Moderate/radical Republican
52. Black codes
53. Sharecropping
54. Civil Rights Act
55. Fourteenth Amendment
56. Military Reconstruction Act
57. Fifteenth Amendment
58. Ex parte Milligan
59. "Radical" regimes
60. Scalawags
61. Carpetbaggers
62. Ku Klux Klan
63. Force Acts
64. Tenure of Office Act
65. "Seward's Folly"
66. Impeachment of President Johnson
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1. Relate the sequence of major crises that led from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to secession.
2. Explain how and why “bleeding Kansas” became a dress rehearsal for the Civil War.
3. Trace the growing power of the Republican Party in the 1850s and the increasing divisions and helplessness of the Democrats.
4. Explain how the Dred Scott decision and Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raid deepened sectional antagonism.
5. Trace the rise of Lincoln as the leading exponent of the Republican doctrine of no expansion of slavery.
6. Analyze the complex election of 1860 in relation to the sectional crisis.
7. Describe the movement toward secession, the formation of the Confederacy, and the failure of the last compromise effort.
Chapter 20:
8. Explain how the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for troops galvanized both sides for war.
9. Describe the crucial early struggle for the Border States.
10. Indicate the strengths and weaknesses of both sides as they went to war.
11. Describe the diplomatic struggle for the sympathies of the European powers.
12. Compare Lincoln’s and Davis’s political leadership during the war.
13. Describe the curtailment of civil liberties and the mobilization of military manpower during the war.
14. Analyze the economic and social consequences of the war for both sides.
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Chapters 19-20 - Unit 8
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Harriet Tubman
3. Compromise of 1850
4. Underground Railroad
5. Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. Hinton R. Helper
7. John Brown
8. James Buchanan
9. Charles Sumner
10. John C. Fremont
11. Dred Scott
12. Roger Taney
13. John C. Breckenridge
14. John Bell
15 Abraham Lincoln
16 Jefferson Davis
17 John Crittenden
18 Self-determination
19 Southern nationalism
20. Sectionalism
21. Uncle Tom's Cabin
22. The Impending Crisis of the South
23. New England Immigrant Aid Society
24. Pottawatomie Creek massacre
25. Lecompton Constitution
26. "Bleeding Kansas"
27. American (Know-Nothing) Party
28. Dred Scott decision
29. Panic of 1857
30. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
31. Freeport Doctrine
32. Harper's Ferry raid
33. Constitutional Union party
34. Crittenden Compromise
35. Napoleon III
36. Maximilian
37. Charles Francis Adams
38. Clara Barton
39. William H. Seward
40. Edwin M. Stanton
41. Morrill Tariff Act
42. National Banking Act
44. Trent Affair
45. The Alabama
46. Laird rams
47. King Cotton
48. Draft riots
49. Fort Sumter
50. Border states
51. Secession
52. Confederate constitution
53. Sumner-Brooks incident
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UNIT 7 – Manifest Destiny & Growing Sectionalism
Chapter 17:
1. Explain the spirit of “Manifest Destiny” that inspired American expansionism in the 1840s.
2. Indicate how American anti-British feeling led to various conflicts over debts, Maine, Canadian rebellion, Texas, and Oregon.
3. Explain why the movement to annex Texas gained new momentum and why the issue aroused such controversy.
4. Indicate how the issues of Oregon and Texas became central in the election of 1844 and why Polk’s victory was seen as a mandate for “Manifest Destiny.”
5. Describe how the issues of California and the Texas boundary created conflict and war with Mexico.
6. Describe how the dramatic American victory in the Mexican War led to the breathtaking territorial acquisition of the whole Southwest.
7. Explain the consequences of the Mexican War, especially its effect on the slavery question.
Chapter 18:
8. Explain how the issue of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico disrupted American politics from 1848 to 1850.
9. Point out the major terms of the Compromise of 1850 and indicate how this agreement attempted to deal with the issue of slavery.
10. Indicate how the Whig party disintegrated and disappeared because of its divisions over slavery.
11. Describe how the Pierce administration engaged in various pro-southern overseas and expansionist ventures.
12. Describe Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act and explain why it stirred the sectional controversy to new heights.
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Chapters 17-18 - Unit 7
1. John Tyler
2. John Slidell
3. Winfield Scott
4. Lord Ashburton
5. Zachary Taylor
6. Nicholas P. Trist
7. James K. Polk
8. Stephen W. Kearny
9. David Wilmot
10. Robert Gray
11. John C. Fremont
12. Joint resolution
13. Manifest Destiny
14. Fiscal bank
15. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
16. "spot" resolutions
17. Tariff of 1842
18. "conscience" Whigs
19. Bear Flag revolt
20. Caroline incident
21. Hudson's Bay Company
22. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
23. Californios Indians
24. Liberty Party
25. "all of Mexico"
26. Aroostook War
27. Walker Tariff
28. Wilmot Proviso
29. Mexican cession
30. William Henry Harrison (1841)
31. Canadian insurrection (1837)
32. Oregon Trail
33. 1844 election
34. 54°40' pledge
35. California, 1845
36. Texas border dispute
37. Nueces River (1846)
38. Polk war message (1846)
39. Gen. Santa Anna
40. Bear Flag Republic
41. Battle of Buena Vista (1847)
42. Gen. Winfield Scott
43. Vera Cruz/Mexico City (1847)
44. Father Junipero Serra
45. Election of 1848
46. Lewis Cass
47. Stephen A. Douglas
48. Franklin Pierce
49. John C. Calhoun
50. Martin van Buren
51. Daniel Webster
52. Matthew C. Perry
53. Harriet Tubman
54. William H. Seward
55. James Gadsden
56. Henry Clay
57. Millard Fillmore
58. Popular sovereignty
59. Fillibustering
60. Free Soil Party
61. Fugitive Slave Law
62. "personal liberty laws"
63. Underground Railroad
64. Compromise of 1850
65. "fire-eaters"
66. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
67. Ostend Manifesto
68. "higher law"
69. Kansas-Nebraska Act
70. California gold rush (1848)
71. California admission application (1849)
72. Seventh of March Speech (1850)
73. Election of 1852
74. Whig Party demise (1852)
75. William Walker
76. Pacific railroad route
77. Jefferson Davis
78. Gadsden Purchase (1853)
79. Missouri Compromise of 1820
80. Republican Party (1854)
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UNIT 6 – Antebellum America: Reforming Society
Chapter 15:
1. Describe the changes in American religion and their effects on culture and social reform.
2. Describe the cause of the most important American reform movements of the period.
3. Explain the origins of American feminism and describe its various manifestations.
4. Describe the utopian and communitarian experiments of the period.
5. Identify the early American achievements in the arts and sciences.
6. Analyze the early American literary flowering of the early nineteenth century, especially in relation to transcendentalism and other ideas of the time.
Chapter 16:
7. Point out the economic strengths and weaknesses of the “Cotton Kingdom.”
8. Describe the southern planter aristocracy and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
9. Describe the non-slaveholding white majority of the South and explain its relations with both the planter elite and the black slaves.
10. Describe the nature of African-American life, both free and slave, before the Civil War.
11. Describe the effects of the “peculiar institution” of slavery on both blacks and whites.
12. Explain why abolitionism was at first unpopular in the North and describe how it gradually gained strength.
13. Describe the fierce southern response to abolitionism and the growing defense of slavery as a “positive good.”
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