2015-16 Mid-Term Review SheetName: ______
Honors US History
Exam Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016
120 multiple choice questions and 2 (out of 3) short answer questions= 140 Points
Review how the following people, places, and events fit into the theme of each unit. Go beyond simply identifying who, what, when or where.
Antebellum and Civil War Unit:
Chapters 10 and 11
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Brown
Abolitionists
Dred Scott
Bleeding Kansas
Brooks-Sumner Incident
Abraham Lincoln
General Lee
General Grant
Election of 1860
Emancipation Proclamation
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Causes of Secession
Fort Sumter
Antietam
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Appomattox Court house
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Taking the Pulse of America: Turn of the Century (Reading Packet)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Railroads’ impact on industrialization
Native Americans
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
International Workers of the World (Wobblies)
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Monopoly
Pullman Strike
Laissez-Faire capitalism
Push/pull factors of immigration
Nativism
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives
Urban living conditions/tenements
Segregation
Chinese Exclusion Act
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Jim Crow laws
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Populism Platform
Gilded Age
Theodore Roosevelt: The Modern PresidencyChapters 16 and 17
Muckrakers
McClure’s Magazine
Woman’s suffrage
NAWSA
19th Amendment
1902 Coal Miner’s Strike
Trust-busting
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Howard Taft
Temperance Movement
Goals of Progressivism
Ida Tarbell’s History of Standard Oil
Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
Election of 1912
Bull Moose party
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-trust Act
16th, 17th , 18th and 19th Amendments
Imperialism
Commodore Matthew Perry
Spanish American War
Aguinaldo
John Hay “Splendid little war.”
Treaty of Paris
Rough Riders
Cuba
Hawaii
Philippines
Platt Amendment
Admiral George Dewey
Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
Yellow Journalism
Panama Canal Zone
Big Stick Diplomacy
Maine
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
Effects of US Imperialism in Latin America
Imperialism Map Items:Panama, Columbia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Philippines, Hawaii, China, Samoan Islands, Japan
Woodrow Wilson: Foreign Policy and WWI Chapter 18
MAIN causes of WWI
Western Front
Causes of American involvement in WWI
US isolationism
1916 Presidential Campaign
TheLusitania
Zimmerman Note
Schenck v. US
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Creel Committee on Public Information
WWI impact on women
War and African Americans
Great Migration
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
Propaganda
League of Nations
Bonds
Selective Service Act
WWI Map Items:
France, Britain, Germany, Russia, Italy and Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland
Changes in Europe map/new countries
Roaring Twenties
Chapters 19 and 20
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Realities of 1920’s economy
Henry Ford/assembly line
Impact of the automobile
Jazz
Consumerism
Installment buying
Buying on margin
Charles Lindbergh
Sports heroes
Mass Culture - radio/movies
Fundamentalism
Flapper
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Marcus Garvey
Scopes Trial
Prohibition: Effects
Bootleggers/Speakeasies
National Origins Act/immigration quotas
Sacco and Vanzetti
Ku Klux Klan
Kellogg-Briand Treaty
Red Scare
Great Depression and New Deal
Chapters 21 and 22
Herbert Hoover
Hoover’s response to Depression
Reconstruction Finance Corp (RFC)
Bonus Army
Plight of farmers
Causes of the Depression
Stock Market Crash
Effects of Depression
Unemployment rates
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowl
Effects of the Depression on African Americans
Franklin Roosevelt
New Deal
Goals of the New Deal
Impact of the New Deal
Hundred Days
Fireside chats
Bank Holiday
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Alphabet Soup Agencies (WPA. CCC, AAA, WPA)
Criticism of the New Deal
Second New Deal
John Maynard Keynes
Social Security Act (SSA)
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Court-packing scheme
Dorothea Lange
World War II
(Reading Packet)
Totalitarianism
Blitzkrieg
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Interventionists
Isolationists
Winston Churchill
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease Act
Selective Service Act
Pearl Harbor: significance/effects
Bataan Death March
Dwight Eisenhower
North Africa Campaign
Tuskegee Airmen
Effects of WWII on women
Effects of WWII on African Americans
Rationing
Rosie the Riveter
Double V campaign
Internment camps
Propaganda
D-Day Invasion
Battle of Midway
Manhattan Project
Holocaust
Harry Truman
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Geneva Convention
Nuremberg Trials