American history first semester review
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- Civil War and Reconstruction
- 29, 30, 31. Identify the freedoms guaranteed by the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th amendments.
- Review Westward expansion, including
- Examine the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19 th century; causes and consequences;
- Why were the following things important
- Examine the causes, course and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries
- Describe these economic and philosophic ideologies
- World War I
- Describe U.S. government war measures
- _______________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the following
- Describe the following things
- Social change and the 1920s
- How did the economic boom of the 1920s change
- Describe the influence on society in the 1920s of
- Compare the views of the African American experience of
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AMERICAN HISTORY FIRST SEMESTER REVIEW Early America 1. How did the first people arrive in the Americas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What was the motivation for European explorers to come to the New World? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Describe Columbus’s voyage and what he expected to find. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Describe the success and failures of the first colonies in English America. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What motivated the Pilgrims to come to America? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. How did slavery impact the colonies? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What was the Enlightenment and what impact did it have on colonists in America? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Describe how taxes and laws (the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Townshend Act) impacted the colonists and why they were unhappy with them. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. Describe the events in Boston that led to the start of the Revolutionary War. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. What is the Declaration of Independence and what does it say? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________11. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What compromises were made at the Constitutional Convention? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________13. What are checks and balances? Why are they important? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________14. What did the Federalists believe? What did the Antifederalists believe? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________15. Why was the Bill of Rights created? What is in it? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________16. What were the arguments for and against a national bank? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________17. What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Describe how we acquired the Louisiana Territory. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________19. What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________20. What was the Missouri Compromise? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________21. How did the North and the South grow to be different in the early 1800s? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Civil War and Reconstruction Describe the reasons that the following things led to the Civil War: 22. Sectionalism ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Compromises ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. Economic change ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Cultural differences ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. Technology ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Who were some significant people or groups during Reconstruction? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction Era. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29, 30, 31. Identify the freedoms guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. 13th _______________________________________________________________________________________ 14th _______________________________________________________________________________________ 15th _______________________________________________________________________________________ 32. How did Jim Crow laws influence life for African Americans? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. What were the effects of the Black Codes? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 34. Describe the sharecropping system as practiced in the United States. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. Describe some important events in the Native American experience during and immediately after the Civil War. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review Westward expansion, including 36. Reservation system ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 37. Dawes Act ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 38. Wounded Knee ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 39. Sand Creek massacre ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 40. Little Big Horn ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 41. Manifest destiny ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
42. Analyze the challenges faced by American farmers, and the farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid-to-late 1800s. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examine the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century; causes and consequences; 43. Social _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 44. Political _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 45. Economic _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 46. Compare the first and second Industrial Revolution in the United States. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 47. How did the development steel, oil, transportation, communication and business practices affect the U.S. economy? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 48. Analyze changes that occurred as the U.S. shifted from an agrarian to an industrial society. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
49. Chinese Exclusion Act? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 50. Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
51. Class system ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52. Migration from farms to cities ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 53. Social gospel movement ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 54. Settlement houses ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
55. Causes ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 56. Early unions ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 57. Strikes and riots ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 58. Response of business owners and government ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
59. Social Darwinism ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 60. Gospel of Wealth ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
61. Muckrakers ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 62. Populists ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 63. Progressives ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Imperialism 64. What were the major factors that drove U.S. imperialism? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 65. What was the motivation for acquiring territories? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 66. What were the causes, events, and consequences of the Spanish American War? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 67. What were the economic, military, and security motivations for the U.S. completion of the Panama Canal? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 68. What were the major obstacles in construction of the Panama Canal? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
69. British propaganda ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 70. Lusitania/u-boat activity ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 71. Zimmermann telegram ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe U.S. government war measures: 72. Selective Service Act ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 73. War Industries Board ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 74. War bonds ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 75. Espionage Act ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 76. Sedition Act ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 77. Committee of Public Information ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 78. What was the impact of new weaponry in creating a new type of warfare? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 79. Compare the experiences minority Americans (African Americans, women, conscientious objectors) had while serving in Europe. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How did the war impact: 80. Women? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 81. German Americans? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 82. African Americans? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 83. Great migration? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 84. Dissenters against the war (Eugene V. Debs)? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the following: 85. The Treaty of Versailles ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 86. The failure of the U.S. to support the League of Nations. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
87. Isolationism ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 88. Kellogg-Briand Treaty ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
89. Labor unrest ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 91. Palmer Raids ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 92. Sacco and Vanzetti ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How did the economic boom of the 1920s change: 93. Consumers? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 94. Businesses? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 95. Manufacturing? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 96. Marketing practices? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
97. Hollywood ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 98. Harlem renaissance ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 99. Fundamentalist movement ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 100. Prohibition ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
101. Booker T. Washington ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 102. Marcus Garvey ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 103. W.E.B. DuBois ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 104. Explain the growing support for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its idea and beliefs. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 105. Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for minorities; women, African Americans, Native Americans, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Directory: userfiles -> 1681 -> Classes -> 22065 userfiles -> The Development of Feudalism in Western Europe userfiles -> Your class will be looking at many of the Supreme Court cases that have had userfiles -> Accelerated Reader Quiz List Reading Practice userfiles -> A good Man is Hard to Find userfiles -> Introduction userfiles -> President George Washington userfiles -> Unit 11: political developments in the early republic setting the stage: launching the new republic 22065 -> When: 1600 – 1763 Where: New World (Present Day North and South America) Why Download 38.63 Kb. Share with your friends:
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