U.S. History First Semester Exam Review
I. First Quarter: Founding Documents and Celebrate Freedom, Manifest Destiny and the American West, The Gilded Age
II. Second Quarter: The Progressive Era, Populism, Imperialism, World War I, Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression
Part I
1. What document was issued on July 4, 1776? ______
2. The U.S had a revolution against this country when we declared our independence: ______
3. How many original colonies became our first states? ______
4. How many stars are on the American flag? ______How many stripes?______
5. Which president was the Father of our Country? ______
6. Which President freed the slaves during the Civil War?______
7. Match the terms:
Federalism a)each branch of government has its own distinct power
Republic b)each branch of government can check or curb the power of other branches
Separation of powers c)states share power with a strong central government
Checks and balances d)a democracy uses representation of elected officials
8. Match the branches of government:
Legislative a)interpret the law/courts
Executive b)writes the law/Congress
Judicial c)enforces the law/President
9. Match the documents:
a)Declaration of Independence a)our “birth certificate”—declared ourselves free from England
b)Articles of Confederation b)described our rights—first ten amendments to the Constitution
c)Constitution c)our plan of government with seven articles and 27 amendments
d)Bill of Rights d)our first weak plan of government before the Constitution
10. Match the political ideas:
Radical a)traditional and slow to change
Liberal b)wants immediate and violent change
Moderate c)supports change and reform
Conservative d)middle road and cautious
Reactionary e)resists change, often violently
11. Match Alexis De Tocqueville’e five values needed for a successful constitutional republic:
Liberty a)each person has value
Egalitarianism b)each person is equal
Individualism c)the people’s voices must be heard
Laissez-faire d)freedom for all
Populism e)the government should not interfere with the rights of the people
12. Define manifest destiny: ______
13. Sort the terms and ideas under the Western topics:
Farmers Cattlemen Indians Mining Railroads
Soddies, cattle trails, ghost towns, railheads, reservations, Little Big Horn, Homestead Act, barbed wire, Wounded Knee, buffalo, Promontory Point, Virginia City, Irish and Chinese labor, nomadic, Dawes Act, wanted statehood
14. Where did women first get the vote in the West? ______
15. Who wrote the thesis saying that the Western experience defines the American character? ______
16. Who declared the frontier closed in 1890?______Why?______
17. List 10 Western states: ______
18. Match the Gilded Age terms:
Gilded Age a)period of industrialization, immigration, urbanization, political corruption
Assembly Line b)total control of a business or industry by a trust
Social Darwinism c)political organization used to win elections, often with corrupt ways
Gospel of Wealth d)economic “survival of the fittest”
Captains of Industry/Robber Barons e)based on the Christian values of helping the less fortunate
Monopoly f)anti-immigrant attitude of fear and hate
Nativism g)free enterprise—economic system of the U.S.
Laissez-faire h)“hands off” the economy—little or no government regulation
Ellis Island i)millionaires like Carnegie and Rockefeller
Melting Pot j)Welcome Center for immigrants—near Statue of Liberty in NY Harbor
Capitalism k)a blending of immigrants in the U.S. creating a typical American
Political machine l)efficient method of production using a conveyor belt
19. The Bessemer Process led to the: a)Age of Steel b)Manifest Destiny c)Progressive Era
20. Most immigrants in the late 19th century came to the U.S. from a)Western Europe b)Southern and Eastern Europe c)Asia
Part II
21. The Progressive Era was a period of: a)reform b)muckraking c)yellow journalism d)all of these
22. Match the Progressives and issues:
T. Roosevelt a)meat and food production
Upton Sinclair b)labor unions
Eugene Debs c)trust busting
Susan B. Anthony a)suffrage and women’s rights
W.E.B. DuBois b)Civil Rights—education
Booker T. Washington c)founder of NAACP
Jane Addams d)social worker and founder of Hull House for immigrants
Hearst and Pulitzer a)yellow journalism
William Jennings Bryan b)Populist Pacifist Democratic candidate for President
Henry Ford c)muckraker who exposed lynching issue in the South
Ida Wells d)automobile production industrialist—practiced corporate welfare
23. Match the constitutional changes:
13th Amendment a)Freedom for slaves
14th Amendment b)Vote for former male slaves
15th Amendment c)Citizenship for former slaves
16th Amendment d)Senators elected by states
17th Amendment e)Prohibition against alcohol
18th Amendment f)Women’s suffrage (vote/enfranchisement)
19th Amendment g)Income tax
24. Match the Progressive ideas:
Eugenics a)journalists who expose the “dirt” in society
Populism b)Farmers movement against the gold standard—Third Party
Muckrakers c)scientific racism looking for “good genes”
Civil Rights a)efforts to end political corruption after the assassination of President Garfield
Civil Service Reform b)effort to end Jim Crow segregation and achieve full equality of the races
Initiatives and Referendums c)issues voted upon in elections
25. In a setback for Civil Rights, the Supreme Court ruled in the case, Plessy v. Ferguson that races could be “______.
26. The U.S. moved from an isolationist country to a world power when we acquired outside territories. We call this the Age of ______.
27. What war in 1898 was called a “splendid little war” and brought the U.S. an empire? ______
28. Name American possessions in the Pacific by 1900: ______
29. Name American possessions in the Caribbean by 1900: ______
30. Who was president during the Spanish-American War (later assassinated)? ______
31. Who was the rough rider and war hero who later built the Panama Canal? ______
32. What was Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy? ______
33. Define Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy: ______
34. What is America’s Great White Fleet? ______
35. Admiral Mahan wrote a book that said if the U.S. wanted an empire, it must build a great ______.
36. Why did the U.S. go to war against Spain? ______
37. What Pacific territory fought the U.S. for several years? ______
38. Name the man who overthrew the government of Hawaii for the U.S. to gain it as a territory. ______
39. Were these parties for or against imperialism? Republicans ______Democrats ______
40. List the parties for the following presidents:
McKinley ______T. Roosevelt ______Taft______Wilson______
41. Which of the above presidents ran as a Third Party Progressive Candidate in 1912? ______
42. Which president was most progressive and an idealist in domestic and foreign policy? ______
43. Name 5 causes of World War I: ______
44. Name 3 causes for U.S. involvement in WWI: ______
45. Name 5 new weapons in World War I: ______
46. How did technology influence World War I? ______
47. Wilson’s Fourteen Points influenced the Treaty of ______.
48. What was the League of Nations? ______
49. Henry Cabot Lodge led the fight against Americans signing the Treaty of Versailles. Did we sign it? ______Did the U.S. join the League of Nations? ______Why or why not? ______
50. African Americans experienced a Great Migration during World War I. This meant they moved from ______to ______to work in American factories.
51. Propaganda was used during WWI. What is propaganda?______
52. What did the Selective Service Act do? ______
53. On November 11, 1918, the armistice was signed. What is an armistice? ______
54. How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to World War II? ______
55. Match the following on WWI:
Pershing a)leader of Germany
Wilson b)American President
Kaisar Wilhelm c)General of the American Expeditionary Forces
Senator Lodge a)Communist leader of Russia/USSR
Czar Nicholas b)leader of Russia who abdicated
Lenin c)American Senator who led the defeat of the Treaty of Versailles
Doughboys a)led to shell shock and disillusionment
Uncle Sam b)used for recruitment and propaganda
Trench Warfare c)American soldiers who served in Europe “Over There”
Stalemate a)battle and turning point in war
Argonne b)lack of advancement for either side
Armistice c)ceasefire—the war was over