History Mid-Term Review Guide
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Reconstruction
1. What impact did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments have in the United States?
2. What were the Jim Crow laws (pg 532)? What impact did they have on American society?
3. What is sharecropping (pg 529)? How did it lead to a cycle of poverty?
4. How did the Radical Reconstruction Act impact the southern states (pg 523)?
5. How was Rutherford B. Hayes able to win the election of 1876? (pg 531) What impact did it have in the United States?
6. What was the outcome of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v Ferguson (pg 532)?
Industrial Growth
1. What impact did the growth of the railroad industry have on the United States (pg 574-575)?
2. Who were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan? What were their attitudes toward competition in the market place (Chapter 20 Section 2)?
3. Why were many big business owners referred to as “robber barons?”
4. What were the main goals of labor unions (pg 590-591)?
5. What was the goal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (pg 632)?
6. What impact did the growth of industrialization (or the growth of businesses and manufacturing of goods) have on the United States?
Urban Growth
1. Who were the nativists (pg 604)?
2. Why was there a population growth in cities in the late 1800s (pg 606)?
Progressive Era
1. What political reforms were made during the Progressive Era?
2. Who were the muckrakers (pg 634)?
3. Why did President Theodore Roosevelt set up the national park system (pg 641)?
4. How did Progressive reformers attempt to reduce the wealth gap between the rich and the poor? (pg 636)
5. What impact did Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, have on the United States (pg 634)?
6. How were Taft and Roosevelt similar in their policies as President?