U.S. History Review – Semester 1 2014-2015

Answer each question or define each term.

Unit 1: Backbones of America

1.  What is the Bill of Rights?

2.  Describe the following Amendments:

1st Amendment
2nd Amendment
4th Amendment
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
8th Amendment
9th Amendment
10th Amendment

3.  What does the legislative branch of the government do? What houses make up the legislative branch? What are the differences between them?

4.  What does the executive branch do? Who runs it?

5.  What does the judiciary branch do?

6.  What is the length of a term of office for the following: President, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, Federal Judge?

7.  How do the Executive and Legislative Branches keep checks and balances on each other? How does the Judicial Branch check the Legislative Branch?

8.  What is the Constitution?


Unit 2: Civil War and Reconstructions

9.  What did Abolitionists believe in?

10.  What were the differences between the North and South BEFORE the Civil War?

11.  Describe all parts of the Missouri Compromise

12.  Describe all parts of the Compromise of 1850

13.  Who did the Fugitive Slave Law please? Who did it upset and why?

14.  What is Popular Sovereignty? What problems did it lead to?

15.  What was the significance of Bleeding Kansas?

16.  What difference did Harriet Tubman make with the Underground Railroad?

17.  What was the importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

18.  What did the Dred Scott Case say? Why was this important at the time?

19.  What is the significance of John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?

20.  Describe the goals of the Republican Party in 1860 and who they ran for President.

21.  What was Secession and why did it happen?

22.  The Confederate States of America – what were they? Who led them?

23.  What is the importance of Ft. Sumter?

24.  What is the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg?

25.  What was Sherman’s March? How did help to end the war?

26.  Describe the following Reconstruction Amendments:

13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment

27.  Describe Sharecropping

28.  Describe the Black Codes?

Unit 3: The West

29.  Describe Manifest Destiny

30.  What did the Homestead Act give settlers? What did this mean for Westward Expansion?

31.  Who were the Exodusters?

32.  Who were the 49’ers?

33.  Describe Colonel Custer and The Battle of Little Bighorn

34.  What did the followers of the Ghost Dance believe would happen?

35.  What were the importance of the Great Plains and Buffalo to the Native Americans in the West?

36.  Describe the Americanization of the Native Americans

Unit 4: Immigration and Industrialization

37.  What 3 things fueled the rapid rise of industrialization in America?

38.  Where were most of the industrial cities in America located? Why?

39.  Describe a Monopoly (Horizontal Integration)

40.  Describe Vertical Integration

41.  Describe the Americanization of the new Immigrants

42.  Give two reasons why America changed from a rural to an urban country?

43.  What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? Why did Congress pass this?

44.  What were Ellis Island and Angel Island? What were the differences?

45.  What was the belief of the Melting Pot? How could this be harmful to immigrants?

46.  Describe the beliefs of Nativism.

Unit 5: Political Movements at the Turn of the Century

47.  What is Populism? What was their platform? Why is their platform still important today?

48.  How did unions get the attention of their employers?

49.  What was the goal of the Women’s Suffrage Movement? How did they reach their goal? Which amendment and when was it passed?

50.  What does NAWSA stand for?

51.  Who were the leaders of NAWSA from 1900-1919? What other women were major contributors to the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

52.  Who were the Muckrakers? What did they do?

53.  What were the 4 goals of the progressive movement?

54.  What is Prohibition? What amendment was passed in favor of Prohibition?

Unit 6: Imperialism and WWI

55.  What was the significance of the Spanish American War?

56.  Describe the Rough Riders.

57.  What is Yellow Journalism? What influence did it have on the Spanish American War?

58.  What happened to the USS Maine? How did this influence the Spanish American War?

59.  What territory did the US acquire after the Spanish American War? Which of these did they give up?

60.  Teddy Roosevelt: “Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick” – what does this mean?

61.  Describe the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary

62.  Why did America want to build the Panama Canal and what was the significance of it?

63.  What was the Open Door Policy?

64.  What countries were a part of the Allied Powers (Triple Entente) in WWI?

65.  What countries were a part of the Central Powers (Triple Alliance) in WWI?

66.  Describe militarism.

67.  Describe imperialism.

68.  Describe nationalism.

69.  What was the Zimmerman Telegram and what effect did it have on America?

70.  What was the Lusitania and what effect did it have on America?

71.  What important weapons were developed in WWI?

72.  Why did the USA enter WWI?

73.  Describe the Treaty of Versailles.

US History – Semester 1 Review Page 1 Due When you Take Your Final!