U.S. History Review Guide

Unit 5 Test (Chapters 13-17)

SSUSH 11 The student will describe the economic, social, and geographic impact of the growth of big business and technological innovations after Reconstruction.

Topics/Questions for Review:

  1. What factors encouraged economic growth in the late 19th century?
  2. Explain how railroads encouraged the growth of big business and of other industries, such as steel.
  3. Which immigrant groups were responsible for the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
  4. Describe the three inventions of Thomas Edison. How did they impact American life?
  5. What is the Gilded Age?
  6. What is a monopoly?
  7. What is a trust?
  8. What term refers to the government policy of allowing businesses to operate under minimal government intervention?
  9. What are Robber Barons?
  10. Who are John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie? Which industries did they control?
  11. What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? Was it effective?
  12. What is a Political Machine?
  13. Who was Boss Tweed? What city did he control?

SSUSH 12 The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth.

Topics/Questions for Review:

  1. Describe the differences between “old” immigrants and “new” immigrants.
  2. What were the two major points of entry for immigrants coming to the United States?
  3. Explain how immigration impacted America.
  4. What are labor unions? Explain how they use collective bargaining.
  5. What labor union was led by Samuel Gompers?
  6. Explain the importance of the 1894 Pullman Strike. Why is it considered an example of industrial unrest?
  7. What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)? Who is George Custer?
  8. What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
  9. What was the Ghost Dance Movement? Why did the Federal Government feel threatened by it?
  10. Which major event is considered to mark the end of the Indian (Plains) Wars?
  11. How did railroads contribute to the settlement and growth of the West?
  12. What were the provisions of the Homestead Act of 1862?

SSUSH 13 The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

Topics/Questions for Review:

  1. Explain the different between the beliefs of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.
  2. What are Jim Crow Laws? Provide two examples.
  3. What was the decision in the Supreme Court Case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
  4. What is the NAACP? What did it provide to minorities?

SSUSH 14 The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.

Topics/Questions for Review:

  1. Why did immigrants face hostilities?
  2. Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
  3. Who wrote The Jungle and what changes did it bring about?
  4. What role did Jane Addams play in bringing about reform? What was the name of her house?
  5. Who is Ida Tarbell and what robber baron did she attack?
  6. Define: initiative, recall and referendum, 17th amendment
  7. What President embraced the Conservation movement