U.S. History First Semester Exam Review Sheet

Early America

  • Problems with the Articles of Confederation
  • Significance of Northwest Ordinance
  • Purpose of Federalist Papers
  • Purpose of Anti-Federalist Papers
  • Significance of Declaration of Independence
  • Significance of Bill of Rights
  • Significance of Constitution
  • Checks and Balances

Reconstruction

  • Effects of Reconstruction
  • Purpose of Jim Crow Laws
  • Significance of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Westward Expansion

  • Purpose of Homestead Act
  • Purpose of Dawes Act
  • Role of government in building railroads

Industrialization

  • Impact of industrialization on population patterns
  • Characteristics of new vs. old immigrants
  • Problems caused by rapid growth of cities
  • Examples of changes in 19th century cities
  • Reasons for labor movement and the formation of unions
  • Methods used by labor unions to bring about change
  • Key business leaders of the 1800s and 1900s
  • Reason for the formation of trusts
  • Significance of relationship between big business and government
  • Goals of Populist (Platform)
  • Role of Political machines in city politics

Progressivism

  • Purpose of muckrakers writing
  • Purpose of reforms advocated by Progressives
  • Purpose of the initiative
  • Purpose of Prohibition
  • Significance of women’s suffrage movement prior to 19th amendment
  • Goal of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • Reforms supported by President Teddy Roosevelt
  • Purpose of Federal Reserve System

Imperialism

  • Foreign Policy adopted by U.S. after 1898
  • Reasons for expansion overseas
  • Reasons for annexing Hawaii
  • Reasons for building the Panama Canal

World War I (WWI)

  • Explain the position of the U.S. at the start of WWI and the reason for this stance
  • Role of women during WWI
  • Purpose of the 19th amendment
  • Reasons for the Great Migration
  • Purpose of the League of Nations
  • Reasons for Congress rejecting U.S. involvement in the League of Nations

Roaring Twenties (1920s)

  • Identify the preferred mode of transportation in the 1920s
  • Significance of Harlem Renaissance

Short Answer

Explain two effects of Industrialization on living or working conditions in the United States for the early industrial working class that moved to the new industrial cities between 1875-1930.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, millions of people immigrated to the United States. Identify and explain two reasons people left their homelands to move to the United States.

Explain two reasons for the United States departure from Isolationism to Imperialism.

Explain two of the factors that lead the United States to enter WWI.

Explain the major reason behind the U.S. Senate’s rejection the Treaty of Versailles and entry into the League of Nations.

Following Reconstruction many Southern states passed legislation that became known as

Jim Crow laws. Identify two Jim Crow laws. Then, describe how each law negatively

impacted the lives of African-Americans.