FALL US HISTORY COMMON FINAL REVIEW SHEET

COLONIAL/REVOLUTION

Enlightenment – Natural Rights

Common Sense – Thomas Paine

Causes of the American Revolution

Declaration of Independence

Treaty of Paris

CONSTITUTION:

Checks and Balances

Federalists v. Antifederalists

The Great Compromise

3/5ths Compromise

The Bill of Rights

3 Branches of Government

SUPREME COURT & CONST ISSUES:

Alien & Sedition Acts

Virginian & Kentucky Resolutions

Marbury v. Madison - Judicial Review

Nullification Crisis - Jackson

EARLY RILIGION

First Great Awakening

1st Amendment Freedom of Religion

2nd Great Awakening

SLAVERY & CIVIL WAR

Popular Sovereignty

Compromise of 1850

Abolitionism

Dred Scott decision

Causes of the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

RECONSTRUCTION

13-15th Amendment

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Radical Reconstruction

EXPANSION

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Missouri Compromise – Henry Clay

Monroe Doctrine

Polk & Mexican American War

Andrew Jackson & Indian Removal

Life of the Plains Indians

Transcontinental Railroad

INDUSTRILIZATION & LABOR

Industrialization effects

Labor Movement: Strikes

Sherman Antitrust Act

TrustsMonopoly

“Robber Barons”

Social Darwinism

“Free Silver” vs. Gold Standard

IMMIGRATION

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Nativists

Immigration Patterns

Chinese Exclusion Act

Americanization Movement

REFORM – POPULISM & PROGRESSIVISM:

Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed

Graft

Populists

Tenement & Settlement Houses

Social Gospel Movement

Muckrakers

Upton Sinclair and The Jungle

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

Temperance Movement

17th Amendment

Prohibition Movement

Theodore Roosevelt

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

19th Amendment

IMPERIALISM & FOREIGN POLICY

Manifest Destiny

Open Door Policy

Spanish American War

Imperialism

Big Stick Diplomacy

Philippines-American War

World War I

Causes of WWI

Causes of US involvement in WWI

Selective Service Act

Weapons and technology of WWI

The “Big Four”

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Treaty of Versailles

League of Nations

Trench warfare

Central Powers

Allies

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Schenck v. United States

American workforce changes during WWI

CPI - Propaganda

1920s

Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Sacco & Vanzetti

Warren G. Harding

Teapot Dome Scandal

Calvin Coolidge & Big Business

Henry Ford – assembly lines & Model T

The Great Migration (African-Americans)

Ku Klux Klan

18th Amendment – Prohibition

Failures of Prohibition

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Speakeasies

Fundamentalism

Scopes Trial – Evolution

Charles Lindbergh

Jazz – Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes

NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey:UNIA & “Back-to-Africa” Movement

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Causes of the Great Depression

Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Buying on the Margin

Speculation

Effects of the Great Depression

Psychological effects of G. Depression

Drop in consumerism

Effects of low wages

Unemployment Rate– 25%

soup kitchens & breadlines

Plight of the farmers

Herbert Hoover’s response – “Rugged

Individualism” & voluntarism

Boulder (Hoover) Dam

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

“Hoovervilles”

The Dust Bowl

“Okies”

Migration of farmers West to California

The Bonus Army

Hoboes

1932 Election – Hoover vs. FDR

THE NEW DEAL

FDR

Fireside Chats

“Brain Trusts”

3 R’s (Relief, Recovery & Reform)

Deficit spending

Bank Holiday

Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Direct Relief

Frances Perkins

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mary McLeod Bethune

Dorothea Lange

“The Black Cabinet”

New Deal Coalition

Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Social Security Act (SSA)

National Youth Administration (NYA)

Fair Labor Standards Act

Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Wagner Act (NLRB)

CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)

Which acts were ruled unconstitutional?

Court-Packing Plan

Huey Long

Effects on women and minorities

John Collier – Indian Reorganization Act

Successes and failures of the New Deal

Culture: Escapism vs. Realism

Growth of Escapist films, radio & music

John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Father Coughlin – Francis Townsend

Woody Guthrie

Legacy/Long-term Effects of the New Deal

PARAGRAPH RESPONSE TOPICS:

  1. The Enlightenment, Declaration of Independence, & causes of the American Revolution.
  2. The Constitution – debates and compromises
  3. Causes & Effects of the Civil War & WWI
  4. Causes & Effects of Industrialization
  5. American immigration patterns & nativism from 1800-1920s
  6. Causes & Effects of American Imperialism
  7. Changing role of women in society including suffrage & 1920s
  8. The significance of the Harlem Renaissance & Jazz in the 1920s
  9. Causes and effects of Prohibition.
  10. Slavery, Emancipation, Segregation & Civil Rights up through the 1920s
  11. What were the three most significant causes of the Great Depression?
  12. What were the most significant impacts/effects of the Great Depression?
  13. How did the Great Depression impact popular culture in the 1930s?
  14. What were the three main goals, (3 R’s), of the New Deal? Explain the purpose of each goal, and describe one significant program developed for each of these 3 goals?
  15. How successful was the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression?