U.S. History Survey
Study Guide
Test #3
Please bring Two (2)unwrinkled Green Scantron forms for this test (available in the PC bookstore) along with a number 2 pencil. The professor will not provide them.
The test is worth 100 points.
It consists of three parts:
Part I)35 Multiple Choice questions. Each question is worth two points (70points total).
For each question you will be given four choices. You will then select the correct answer from among the four choices.
Part II)10 points are based on the “take home” portion of the test, which is based on the Part III Questions from Robert Asher’sConcepts in AmericanHistory.
These Part III Asher Questions are to be done in advance of the Test. (see my website to download copies of these Questions).
Please note carefully-make sure that you read the Guidelines for answering all of the Part III Questions (Please see the link on my webpage.)
Part III-Hist 2110 Assessment.This is a cumulative final exam with20 Multiple Choice questions that cover the entire course from beginning to end. Each question is worth one point (20 points total).
Preparing for Part I
Important:You should review each term and person that has beendescribed in the lecture notes by looking up each of them in the textbook: James Roark, et al., The American Promise, Seventh edition, Value Edition.
Also:remember to look atthe definitions found in the glossary of The American Promise, Sixth edition, Advantage edition (go to the webpage)
Notes # 13-The Gilded Age (1877-1900)
Key terms/topics
(Note: terms in bold can be found on my webpage: See “Definitions from The American Promise, Sixth Edition)
“New South”
Disfranchisement-definition and ways that it carried out.
Jim Crow
NAACP
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)
The Settlement of the West-Homestead Act of 1862,Wounded Knee
Industrial Expansion (the period during which it occurred)
“Robber Barons”
Gilded Age
Sweatshops
Child labor
The Knights of Labor
Nativism
Socialism
PendletonCivil Service Act of 1883
Populism
Omaha Platform
“Free Silver”
Presidential Election of 1896
Notes #14: The Progressive Era
Also: see the link on the webpage: “Progressive Era Legislation”
Key terms/topics
Progressivism
Jane Addams and the Hull House
Muckrakers
Women’s Suffrage Movement
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt-Square Deal (definition) accomplishments, including legislation (See the link on the webpage: “Progressive Era Legislation”)
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson -important legislation (see the link on the webpage: “Progressive Era Legislation”); what happened to the Democratic Party
Notes #15 U.S. Foreign Policy and World War I
Key terms/topics
Spanish-American War (See the link on the webpage, “Study Guide, Quiz 7”)
The Era of the “Big Stick”
Roosevelt Corollary
The U.S. and World War I- events and developments, key terms, President Wilson’s decisions,the Home Front
Sedition Act of 1918
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
“Red Scare”
Notes #16The Roaring Twenties
Key terms/topics
The Growing American Economy
Harding and Coolidge Administrations-tax policy
The New Urban Culture of the 1920s-Jazz Age, Flappers, Revolt against Prohibition, Harlem Renaissance, Black Nationalism
The New Ku Klux Klan
The Presidential Election of 1928
Notes # 17-The Great Depression and the New Deal
Key terms/topics
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The Great Depression
The Presidential Election of 1932
The New Deal
Keynesian Economics
New Deal Legislation (see the webpage)
African Americans and the New Deal
Legacy of the New Deal
Notes #18- US Foreign Policy in the Interwar Years, and entry into World War II
Key terms/topics
Good Neighbor Policy
The Axis Powers and Axis Aggression
U.S. reaction to the War-Lend Lease Act and Four Freedoms
Pearl Harbor
U.S. in World War II-Home Front: Fair Employment Practices Commission, Women and the War, Internment of Japanese-Americans
Military Highlights-European Theatre
Holocaust
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Key people
Henry Grady / Booker T. Washington / Ida B. Wells / W.E.B. DuBois / Helen Hunt JacksonMark Twain / John D. Rockefeller / Andrew Carnegie / Samuel Gompers / Eugene V. Debs
Susan B. Anthony / William Jennings Bryan / William McKinley / Upton Sinclair / Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Gen. John Pershing / Henry Cabot Lodge / Vladimir Lenin / A. Mitchell Palmer
Henry Ford / Duke Ellington / Louis Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston / Langston Hughes / Marcus Garvey / Al Capone
John Maynard Keynes
Sir Winston Churchill /
- Philip Randolph
Key Dates
1877-1900
1898-Spanish American War
1890-1916
1914-1918
1919
1939-1945
Dec. 7, 1941
June 6, 1944
1945
Key Constitutional Amendments
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
Nineteenth
Part III-Hist 2110 Assessment.20 Multiple Choice questions. Each question will be worth one point (20points total).
For each question you will be given four choices. You will then select the correct answer from among the four choices.
The questions are designed to test the material that is covered in the entire Hist 2110 course.
Preparing for Part III
Review the following topics from the lecture notes and/or the American Promise textbook.
England Settles North America (Notes #2):
Study Part III, Part IV, and Part VI
The American Revolution (Notes #5):
Part II- “Highlights of the War: Study the material that begins with the Second Continental Congress and ends with the Franco-American Alliance (1778).
The Constitution (Notes #6):
Study Part IV
The Federalist Era (Notes #7):
Study Part III- The Election of 1800.
The Jeffersonians in Power (Notes # 8):
Part I: The Administration of Thomas Jefferson-study the section that pertains to the Supreme Court.
Part V: The Presidency of James Monroe-study the section that pertains to Foreign Policy.
The Age of Jackson (Notes 9):
Study Part III B-Indian Removal.
Study Part IV
Study Part V
The Age of Westward Expansion (Notes 9):
Part I-Westward Expansion
The Civil War (Notes 11):
Part III-The Blue (North) vs. The Gray (South).
Notes 12-The Era of Reconstruction.
The specific provisions of the following three Constitutional Amendments-Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth.
Notes 13 –The Gilded Age
Study Part I-the “New South”
Study Part III: “Industrial Expansion: “The Role of Working People” through Samuel Gompers
Study Part V: Parties and Politics: The Populist Movement
Notes 14-“The Progressive Era.”
Know the provisions of each of the following four Constitutional Amendments: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth.
Notes 15-“U.S. Foreign Policy and entry into World War I (1901-1919).”
II: C. “The U.S. enters the War and Part III: “The Home Front.”
Notes 17-“The Great Depression and the New Deal.”
Study the Webpage “New Deal Legislation.”
Review the following: “African Americans and the New Deal.”
Notes 18-“U.S. Foreign Policy in the Interwar Years, and entry into World War II.”
Review the Following:
The Lend Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
The Home Front: Fair Employment Practices Commission, Women and the War, Internment of Japanese-Americans
Military Highlights-European Theatre
The Holocaust
The Pacific Theatre
Remember, bring Two (2) Unwrinkled Green Scantron forms for Test 3.