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