2016 AMERICAN HISTORY FIRST SEMESTER EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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*After school. 245-315 the following days: Monday 12/12; Wednesday 12/14; Thursday 12/15
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Make Up of Exam
*The exam will cover material covered in Chapters 3 - 9
*The order we studied these chapters was 3, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8 and 9
*The exam will be made up of multiple choice, matching, short answer and extended response
*The exam will be made up of some old test questions as well as new questions
*The exam is 135 multiple choice; 6 short answer and 5 essays *Exam is 200 points total
*The exam is worth 20% of your 1st semester grade
Refer to all materials while studying: Textbook, Notes, PowerPoints, Guided Readings, Old Tests and
Quizzes
*Note, we had 2 tests that cover chapters 3, 4 and 6. The first test ―Industrialization‖ covered most of
chapter 3 and some of chapter 4. The second test ―Progressives‖ covered the rest of CH 4 and Ch 6.
CHAPTER 3 INDUSTRIALIZATION
Pages 91-110
1. What was a major factor contributing to industrialization?
2. What is laissez—faire? People who supported this believed that government should interfere in the
economy when….?
3. Why did Congress believe tariffs were necessary during industrialization?
4. What is vertical and horizontal integration?
5. What is a monopoly?
6. How did employers view unions?
7. Why did corporations issue stocks?
8. What were advantages of big corporations over small businesses?
9. How did employers view unions?
10. What were working conditions like in the late 1800s?
11. What role did railroads play in industrialization?
People/Terms: entrepreneur, stock, laissez-faire, Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller, assembly line, operating
costs, nativists
CHAPTER 4– URBAN AMERICA
Page – 114-138
1. In the 1890s, where were half of the immigrants to America from?
2. Why did labor unions oppose immigration?
3. Where did most immigrants live?
4. Who was William M. Tweed?
5. What did Nativists want to do to immigration?
6. How did political machines reward supporters?
7. What is individualism?
8. What philosophy stated that people failed in life because of circumstance beyond their control?
9. What was the Pendelton Act?
10. Where did most immigrants live?
11. Where were immigrants coming from Europe processed at in the United States?
12. Why were labor unions formed? To help workers do what?
People/Terms: Andrew Carnegie, Booker T Washington, Jim Crow, tenements, Jim Crow, New Freedom,
Prohibition, political party bosses, muckrakers
CHAPTER 6 – THE ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISM
159-180
1. Why did women and children join the workforce in the 19th century?
2. What was the living conditions among the poor in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
3. What did socialists believe about who should own business?
4. What did The Jungle lead to?
5. What did Roosevelt warn Taft about tariff reform?
6. Why did Roosevelt try to win the 1912 election from Taft?
7. What are referendum, recall, initiative?
8. Why did President Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?
9. What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Company tragedy lead to?
10. Roosevelt believed Taft’s focus on breaking up trusts would do what?
11. Wilson believed lowering Tariffs would lead to what?
12. Who were muckrakers?
13. What did the Keating-Owen Act regulate?
14. What did Progressives have a strong faith in?
15. What was the purpose of creating city commissions and city managers in city governments across
America?
16. What did Progressives think was responsible for solving the problems of society?
17. What were working conditions that labor unions opposed and what demands did labor unions make
to change these working conditions?
People/Terms: Hepburn Act, muckraker, workers’ compensation, prohibition, 17th Amendment, 18th
Amendment, 19th Amendment, 16th Amendment, Upton Sinclair, Social Darwinism
CHAPTER 5 – BECOMING A WORLD POWER - Imperialism
142-158
1. Why were Europeans looking for overseas places to sell their products?
2. Why did President Fillmore send a naval expedition to Japan?
3. Why was there support in the 1800s to grow our navy?
4. The end of the Spanish-American war granted independence to which country?
5. What fueled American support for the Cuban rebels during the Spanish-American War?
6. Why did President McKinley sent the USS Maine to Havana?
7. What did supporters of annexing the Philippines believe?
8. What was the Platt Amendment?
9. What was the Open Door Policy?
10. What did the Roosevelt Corollary and Monroe Doctrine do?
11. What is imperialism?
12. Why did America go to war against Spain in 1898?
13. What is Dollar Diplomacy? Big Stick Policy?
14. Why did Theodore Roosevelt want the Panama Canal?
15. What were objectives of American expansion?
16. What did the Treaty of Paris say?
17. Why was the US interested in Hawaii?
18. What is nationalism?
19. Causes of Spanish American war? Results of the Spanish American War?
20. Why did the United States want to expand?
People/Terms: spheres of influence, Roosevelt Corollary, Pan-Americanism, Anglo-Saxonism,
protectorate, boxers, Foraker Act, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion,
Chapter 7- THE UNITED STATE ENTERS WORLD WAR I
184-204
1. How did most Americans feel about the conflict in Europe when it first started?
2. Why did the US policy of neutrality fail?
3. What was the Zimmerman telegram?
4. How did the US raise money for WWI?
5. How did the US government ensure the public’s cooperation with the war effort?
6. Describe the Great Migration and why African Americans moved north.
7. Explain the Schenck case.
8. What effect did the American troops first reaching Europe have on the war?
9. What was the result of the Treaty of Versailles?
10. Why did the US Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
11. What was President Wilson’s peace plan known as?
12. What were airplanes first used for in WWI?
13. Why did the British enter WWI?
14. What were the MAIN causes of war?
15. How did Wilson respond to the sinking of the Lusitania?
16. What were the Palmer raids?
17. How did German UBoats violate international law?
18. Push and pull factors of Great Migration?
Chapter 8 – THE JAZZ AGE – 1920s
208-228
1. What were Coolidge’s views on how the government and business should interact?
2. What was the 1st thing broadcasted on commercial radio?
3. Why did people think Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty?
4. Why was John T. Scopes put on trial?
5. What was the Ohio Gang?
6. Teapot Dome Scandal – know it and who was involved and what happened.
7. What was the Cotton Club?
8. No question. I didn’t want to renumber them all and then you ask why there is no #8 
9. Religious Fundamentalism
10. Henry Ford – Assembly line
11. Kellogg-Briand Pact
12. Prohibition
13. American Farmers in the south – their struggle
14. National Origins Act
15. Dawes Plan
16. Flappers
17. Speakeasies
18. Bootlegging
19. Marcus Garvey – what was his plan for African Americans?
Chapter 9 – THE GREAT DEPRESSION
1. What happened on Black Tuesday?
2. Why was there not a demand for all goods being produced in the late 1920s?
3. Know the causes of the Great Depression.
4. When the market became a bear market in 1929, how did investors respond and what was the result?
5. How did Congress contribute to the causes of the Great Depression?
6. Why did banks fail in 1930-1933?
7. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act – collapse in trade in 1930s
8. Conservative, liberal, radical - their thoughts on the economy at the start of the Depression
9. Walter Waters – Bonus Army
10. 1932 Presidential Election
11. Dust Bowl – cause of it
12. Why did Okies start going to California?
13. Great Flood of 1936 – what was a direct result?
14. How did Families change as a result of the Depression?