US History I Final Exam

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Facts vs. Opinions

Industrialization

  • Define:

Inventions at turn of 19th Century

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Laissez-Faire

Social Darwinism

Division of Labor

  • Effects

Urbanization

  • Effects

African Americans at the end of the 19th Century

Jim Crow Laws

Poll Tax

Grandfather Clause

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. DuBois

Marcus Garvey

Immigration

Push factors

Pull factors

Ellis Island

New Immigrant

Tenements

Muckrakers

Nativists

Spanish American War

  • Years fought
  • Reasons for US entry
  • Gains

Nationalism

Imperialism

  • Definition
  • Causes

Yellow Journalism

Gains from Spanish American War

Panama Canal

  • Purpose

Progressives

  • Who?
  • Successes
  • Shortcomings

Susan B. Anthony

Jane Addams

Upton Sinclair

Jacob Riis

Theodore Roosevelt

  • Trustbuster
  • Conservationist

Pure Food and Drug Act

Conservation

Programs initiated to fight the following issues:

  • Abuse of natural resources
  • Conditions of Cities, Urban Living Conditions
  • Political Corruption
  • Monopolies, Corporate Power, Corrupt Big Business
  • Lack of rights for women
  • Labor Abuses
  • Abuse of Alcohol

WWI

  • Years fought
  • Event that began war
  • Causes

Allied Powers:

Central Powers:

America’s first reaction

Militarism

Reasons America entered WWI

Zimmerman Note

African Americans during WWI

  • Treatment

Liberty Bonds

Selective Service Act

Propaganda

Russian Revolution

  • effects

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

Self-determination

Reparations

Versailles Treaty

1920’s

Republican Decade

Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Isolationist

Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

Scopes Trial

KKK

Prohibition

Al Capone

Harlem Renaissance

Jazz

Flappers

Installment Plan

Charles Lindbergh

Great Depression

  • Causes
  • Unemployment rate
  • Social Effects

Trickledown economics

Speculation

Buying on Margin

Dust Bowl

  • Effects on people

Hoovervilles

Bonus Army

President Hoover

  • Attitude towards government responsibility towards people

Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Attitude towards government responsibility towards people

Short Answer ( AT LEAST 1 COMPLETE PARAGRAPH)

1. Describe the experience of many immigrants who came to the United States (be sure to include how they came to the US. Where did they go to get into the US? Where did they live? What jobs did they do?

2. Discuss at least two ways Progressives changed American life

3. List TWO of the four causes of World War I and describe how they helped cause the war (hint- these are concepts not events).

4. List at least two inventions that changed American life in the 1920’s. Discuss how they affected American life.

5. Pick one conflict which occurred during the 1920’s. Describe this conflict and how it changed America.