End of Course Exam Study Guidelines:

This is NOT everything that you need to know. This is a STARTING point for you to use to study.

Civil War

  1. How did the North utilize their industries and vast transportation capabilities to win the Civil War?
  2. What was the first battle of the Civil War and what happened?
  3. What state was the first to secede from the Union?
  4. What were the Civil War Amendments? (Know what they stated as well)
  5. What battles were the turning points in the war?

Be able to identify:

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Robert E. Lee
  • William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Dred Scott Decision
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Appomattox

Reconstruction Chapter 5

  1. What was Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction? What was the Radical Republican’s Plan for Reconstruction? What was Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction?
  2. Know the events surrounding Johnson’s impeachment.
  3. What and who finally ended Reconstruction?

Be able to identify:

  • Radical Republicans
  • Reconstruction Act (1867)
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Scalawags
  • Compromise of 1877
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Ulysses S. Grant (As President)
  • Black Codes
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Impeachment
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Freedmen’s Bureau

Triumph of Industry

  1. Be able to explain the impact of labor unions on society
  2. What did or didn’t the government do to try and control the expansion of business?
  3. How did industrial growth of the late 1800s shape American society and the economy?

Be able to identify:

  • Bessemer process
  • Protective Tariff
  • Laissez faire
  • Vertical integration
  • Horizontal integration
  • President Grover Cleveland
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • ICC
  • Trust
  • Monopoly
  • Knights of Labor
  • American Federation of Labor
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Haymarket Riot
  • Social Darwinism

Immigration and Urbanization

  1. Be able to identify where immigrants came from before 1880 and where they came from after 1880.
  2. Know the problems that are created in the cities by immigrant migration.

Be able to identify:

  • Ellis Island
  • Angel Island
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Americanization
  • Nativism
  • Urbanization
  • Tenement
  • Gilded Age

The South and West Transformed

  1. Be able to explain key battles between the Native Americans and Americans; “Indian Wars”
  2. What were the goals of the Farmers’ Alliance?
  3. What is the “New South” and what factors limited the southern economic recovery?

Be able to identify:

  • Farmers’ Alliance
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • Cash Crop
  • Dawes General Allotment Act
  • Assimilation
  • Homestead Act
  • Transcontinental Railroad
  • Open-range system

Issues of the Gilded Age

  1. Be able to give examples of Jim Crow Laws
  2. Know the key differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
  3. What were the goals of the Populist Party? What type of people did the Populist Party attract?

Be able to identify:

  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Spoils System
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Gold standard
  • Grange
  • Populist Party
  • William McKinley
  • William “Boss” Tweed
  • Omaha Platform

The Progressive Era

  1. What were the beliefs and goals of Progressives?
  2. What was the lasting legacy of Progressivism?
  3. What were Roosevelt’s goals for the Presidency?
  4. What were the differences between Taft and Roosevelt?

Be able to identify:

  • Progressivism
  • Muckraker
  • Jacob Riis
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Social Gospel
  • Settlement houses
  • 19th Amendment
  • Suffrage
  • Temperance movement
  • NAACP
  • Anti-Defamation League
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Square Deal
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Progressivism Party
  • New Nationalism
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • New Freedom
  • 16th Amendment
  • Federal Reserve Act

Emerging World Power

  1. How and why did the U.S. take a more active role in world affairs?
  2. What was the Spanish-American War and who was involved?
  3. How did the U.S. acquire the land for the Panama Canal?

Be able to identify:

  • Imperialism
  • Mathew Perry
  • Queen Liliuokalani
  • Jose Marti
  • Yellow Press
  • Jingoism
  • Rough Riders
  • Treaty of Paris
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Open Door Policy
  • Great White Fleet
  • Sphere of Influence
  • “Big Stick” Diplomacy
  • Platt Amendment
  • Panama Canal
  • “Moral Diplomacy”
  • “Dollar Diplomacy”
  • Roosevelt Corollary

World War I and Beyond

  1. What started World War I?
  2. What caused the U.S. to enter World War I?
  3. How did the war affect Americans at home?
  4. How did Americans affect the end of WWI?
  5. Why did Congress reject the Treaty of Versailles?
  6. How did the rise of Communism in the Soviet Union contribute to the Red Scare?

Be able to identify:

  • Francis Ferdinand
  • Zimmerman Note
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • Militarism
  • Selective Service Act
  • Committee on Public Information
  • Espionage Act
  • Great Migration
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations
  • Red Scare
  • Nicola Sacco
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti
  • Warren G. Harding

The Twenties

  1. How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in American life?
  2. Understand the scandals surrounding the Harding administration.
  3. Be able to explain the concept of isolationism and its impact on American society and economy.
  4. Be able to explain the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on African Americans in the 1920s.

Be able to identify:

  • Installment buying
  • Bull market
  • Buying on the margin
  • Consumer revolution
  • Henry Ford
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Dawes Plan
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Scopes Trial
  • 18th Amendment
  • Volstead Act
  • “Lost Generation”
  • The Jazz Singer
  • Flapper
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Jazz

The Great Depression

  1. How did the prosperity of the 1920s lead to the Great Depression?
  2. How did the Depression affect the lives of urban and rural Americans?
  3. Why did Herbert Hoover’s policies fail?

Be able to identify:

  • Herbert Hoover
  • Black Tuesday
  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  • Hooverville
  • Dust Bowl
  • Trickle-down economics
  • Bonus Army

The New Deal

  1. How did the New Deal try to solve the problem of the Great Depression?
  2. Be able to explain some of the New Deal programs.
  3. How did Americans escape from the realities of life during the 1930s?

Be able to identify:

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • New Deal
  • FDIC
  • Second New Deal
  • Social Security Act
  • New Deal Coalition

The Coming of War

  1. What events caused WWII, and how did the U.S get involved?
  2. How did Americans react to the events taking place in Europe?
  3. Be able to explain America’s reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Be able to identify:

  • Adolf Hitler
  • Anti-Semitic
  • Appeasement
  • Axis Powers
  • Allies
  • Lend-Lease Act
  • Pearl Harbor

World War II

  1. How did the Allies turn the tide against the Axis Powers
  2. How did the war change Americans at home?
  3. How did the Allies eventually defeat the Axis Powers in Europe and in the Pacific?
  4. What were the long term effects of WWII?

Be able to identify:

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Battle of Midway
  • Unconditional surrender
  • Bracero program
  • Zoot Suit Riots
  • Internment
  • D-Day
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Manhattan Project
  • Holocaust
  • Kristallnacht
  • Concentration Camps
  • Yalta Conference
  • United Nations
  • Nuremberg Trials

The Cold War

  1. How did U.S. leaders respond to the Soviet Union trying to expand across Europe?
  2. Be able to explain the lasting effects of the Korean War.
  3. Be able to explain the space race and arms race.
  4. Be able to explain the Red Scare that spread across the U.S.

Be able to identify:

  • Cold War
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Containment
  • Mao Zedong
  • CIA
  • NASA
  • Arms race
  • Brinkmanship
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Red Scare (1950s)
  • Alger Hiss
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Postwar Confidence and Anxiety

  1. How did the U.S. prosper after WWII?
  2. How did pop culture and family life change in the 1950s?
  3. Why were some groups of Americans unhappy with the condition in postwar America?

Be able to identify:

  • GI Bill of Rights
  • Baby Boom
  • Sunbelt
  • Nuclear Family
  • Elvis Presley
  • Beatnik

The Civil Rights Movement

  1. How did African Americans challenge segregation after WWII?
  2. Be able to explain the impact of sit-ins and boycotts on the Civil Rights movement
  3. Be able to compare and contrast Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

Be able to identify:

  • De facto segregation
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • Rosa Parks
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • 24th Amendment
  • Malcolm X
  • Black Panthers

The Kennedy and Johnson Years

  1. How did Kennedy respond to the challenges of the Cold War?
  2. Know the goals of the New Frontier
  3. How did Johnson’s Great Society programs change life for Americans?

Be able to identify:

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Fidel Castro
  • Bay of Pigs invasion
  • Berlin Wall
  • New Frontier
  • Space Race
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • War on Poverty
  • Medicare/ Medicaid
  • Peace Corps

The Vietnam War

  1. Why did the U.S. become involved in Vietnam?
  2. Be able to explain opposition to the Vietnam War.
  3. How did the Vietnam War end and what was its lasting impact?
  4. How did Nixon change Cold War diplomacy during his presidency?

Be able to identify:

  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Domino Theory
  • SEATO
  • Vietcong
  • Napalm
  • Hawk/ Dove
  • Tet Offensive
  • Vietnamization
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • War Powers Act
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Détente
  • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

An Era of Protest and Change

  1. Be able to explain the impact of the counterculture movement.
  2. What led to the rise of the women’s movement?
  3. Be able to explain the environmental movement of the 60s and 70s.

Be able to identify:

  • Counterculture
  • Beatles
  • Commune
  • Generation Gap
  • Feminism
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Chicano Movement
  • Japanese American Citizens League
  • Earth Day

A Crisis in Confidence

  1. Understand the events surrounding the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s resignation.
  2. Know the major events surrounding Ford and Carter’s presidency.

Be able to identify:

  • Richard Nixon
  • Stagflation
  • OPEC
  • Affirmative Action
  • 25th Amendment
  • Watergate
  • Gerald Ford
  • Pardon
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Televangelist
  • Helsinki Accords
  • SALT II
  • Camp David Accords

The Conservative Resurgence

  1. Explain the rise of the conservative movement and opposition to it.
  2. What is the “Reagan revolution”?
  3. How did Reagan’s foreign policy help end communism?
  4. What was George H. W. Bush’s approach to foreign policy?

Be able to identify:

  • Liberal
  • Conservative
  • New Right
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Moral Majority
  • Budget Deficit
  • Deregulations
  • AIDS
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Glasnost
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Apartheid
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Saddam Hussein

Into a New Century

  1. How has technology changed American society
  2. What were the success and failures of the Clinton presidency?
  3. How did the U.S. approach foreign affairs after the Cold War?
  4. Be able to explain the 2008 financial crisis and the terrorist attack of 2001.

Be able to identify:

  • Globalization
  • Biotechnology
  • William Clinton
  • Impeachment
  • H. Ross Perot
  • NAFTA
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Al Qaeda
  • European Union (EU)
  • George W. Bush
  • No Child Left Behind Act
  • Taliban
  • Barack Obama
  • Tea Party Movement
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Immigration Act of 1990