2017 Spring Semester Final Exam Review
Civil War through Progressives (Ch. 12-20)
100 multiple-choice questions- 10 of which are stimulus-based.
12a. The Domestic Slave Trade
Differences between Deep South and Chesapeake
Contributing factors to spread of domestic slave trade
12b. The World of Southern Whites
Differences between rice and tobacco planters
Characteristics of and reasons for gang-labor system
Demographic breakdown of planters, yeomen, and tenants
12c. Expanding and Governing the South
Reasons for Texas independence and rejection of annexation
Comparison of Northern and Southern economies
12d. The African American World
Characteristics of slave Christianity and worship
Characteristics and advantages of task system
Forms and success of slave resistance
13a. Manifest Destiny: South and North
Definition and examples of manifest destiny
Economic reasons for westward migration
13b. War, Expansion, and Slavery
Causes and effects of the Mexican War
Calhoun, Buchanan, Cass, and Stephen Douglas’ views on slavery
Components of the Compromise of 1850
13c. The End of the Second Party System
Controversy behind Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Causes and effects of Kansas-Nebraska Act
Consequences of the Dred Scott decision
13d. Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph
Reasons for and substance of Douglas’ Freeport Doctrine
14a. Secession and Military Stalemate
Components of and reasons for failure of Crittenden Compromise
Significance of the Battle of Fort Sumter
Significance of the Battle of Antietam
14b. Toward Total War
Components of and reasons for total war
Union and Confederate differencing in financing the war
14c. The Turning Point
Causes and effects of the Emancipation Proclamation
Significance of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
14d. The Union Victorious
Role of African Americans in the Civil War
Significance of the Thirteenth Amendment
15a. The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Comparison of Wade-Davis Bill to Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
Southern whites responses to the end of slavery
Significance of the Fifteenth Amendment
15b. The Meaning of Freedom
Opposing views of scalawags and carpetbaggers
Goals of Radical Reconstruction in the South
Most significant and long-term successes of Reconstruction
15c. The Undoing of Reconstruction
Reasons for end of Reconstruction
Role of Redeemers in ending Reconstruction
16a. The Republican Vision
Examples/reasons for Republican economic policy during Civil War
Justifications for Republican support of tariffs
Role of Fourteenth Amendment in protecting corporations
16b. Incorporating the West
Components of and reasons for Homestead Act
Role of technology in settling the Great Plains
Significance of the Exodusters
16c. A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
Goals of reformers and role of Indian boarding schools
Significance of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
Purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
U.S. government response to Battle of Little Big Horn
17a. The Rise of Big Business
Results of industrialization after the Civil War
Vertical vs. horizontal integration
Reasons for expanding national consumer culture
Effects of mass production
17b. Immigrants, East and West
New vs. Old immigrants
Reasons for Chinese immigration
Reactions to Chinese immigration
17c. Labor Gets Organized
Examples and differences between industrial and trade unions
Proposals of Greenback-Labor Party and reasons for proposals
Significance of the Haymarket incident of 1886
18a. Commerce and Culture
Significance of Plessy v. Ferguson
Reasons for business to support baseball
Changing role of women and the Gibson Girl
Connection between John Muir and National Park Service
18b. Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
Reasons for and components of Comstock Act of 1873
Arguments against women’s suffrage, including petticoat rule
18c. Science and Faith
Justifications and supporters of social Darwinism
Goals and methods of the Social Gospel
19a. The New Metropolis
Characteristics of the rising middle-class
Technological contributions to urbanization
Demographic settlement patterns of immigrants
Comparison of yellow journalism and muckrakers
19b. Governing the Great City
Various muckrakers and their associated reform efforts
Arguments for and against political machines
Reasons for decline in support for political machines
19c. Crucibles of Progressive Reform
Role of women in settlement houses and effects of movement
Contributing factors to passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
Causes and effects of Triangle Shirtwaist fire tragedy of 1911
20a. Reform Visions
Differences between Progressives and Populists
Problems addressed by and solutions proposed by Populists
Causes and effects of the Pendleton Act
20b. The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
Reasons for Coxey’s Army and outcome of march
Reasons for decline in strength of Populist Party
20c. Reform Reshaped
Significance of Supreme Court decision regarding Northern Securities
Roosevelt’s approach to natural resources
20d. Wilson and the New Freedom
Details and significance of the presidential election of 1912
Long-lasting impact of the Progressive movement