Mid-Term Study Guide; The following items are things you’ve already seen on tests we’ve taken the
first half of the year. Besides the EOC packet I’ve already gone over, make sure you take a look at
this too.
Remember, as you are already used to on my tests, expect to see maps, pictures, graphs, political
cartoons, excerpts from speeches, acts, laws, cases, etc…
I will also include a series of different political cartoons that you have already seen on my tests ,
lectures and PowerPoints.
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Civil War (1861-1865) Causes, Course and Consequences
o Manifest Destine
o Mexican –American War
o Emancipation Proclamation (January 1863) (How did this change the nature of the
war? How is this a turning point?)
o Lincoln’s “goal”; Preserve the union (a house divided cannot stand)
Know (prior to the Civil War) how did newly acquired territories in the west effect the issue
of slavery? How would it disrupt a “perfect balance”?
Know about the S.C.O.T.U.S decision on Plessey V. Ferguson (1896)
o Jim Crow Laws
o Segregation/ Separate But Equal
Know about the Farmers’ Alliance and the cooperatives they formed.
Know why American wanted to practice Imperialism during the era.
o Remember the two characteristics:
o 1. Economic gain (extractive economies)
o 2. Military influence
o Big Stick Diplomacy (Teddy Roosevelt), Dollar Diplomacy (Taft) and Moral Diplomacy
(Wilson)
Know the M.A.I.N causes of WWI and know what PARTICULAR event led the U.S to intervene
in the war  Zimmerman Note
o What event officially STARTED the war? Archduke Ferdinand.
o April 2, 1917 Wilson asks Congress to declare war and U.S joins on April 6th, 1917.
Why? (Zimmerman note)
Know about America before, during and post WWI
o Return to Simpler Times (post)
o Isolationism
o League of Nations; Henry Cabot Lodge, Why didn’t he or other congressmen NOT
want to join? Power of Congress?
o Treaty of Versailles
o Peace without Victory
o President Woodrow Wilson
o Warfare technology increases and so do the casualties and stalemate.
o Nativism; Jobs, Loss of American Way, Anarchists, Communism, European
Immigrants
o Zacco and Vanzetti; Italian Immigrants
Know about the three Amendments that were a result of the Civil War (13th, 14th & 15th)
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Know what happened on Black Tuesday (10/29/1929)
Know about America during the 1920s
o Flappers, the new “liberated/ modern” woman. Why?
o 19th Amendment
o Bonus Army March
o President Herbert Hoover. Is it fair to blame him?
o Hoovervilles
o President Harding and the scandals of his presidency (Albert Fall and the Teapot
Dome Scandal)
Know about the farmers and the 1920s. Did they experience the boom the modernists in the
cities were experiencing?
Remember that the RAILROADS is the center of the entire Second Industrial Revolution
(after the Civil War).
Know about the Palmer Raids of the first Red Scare.
o NOTE; this is NOT to be confused with the SECOND Red Scare in which the spread of
communism = spread of atomic bombs.
Know about the 1917 Selective Service Act (WWI)
Remember what the purpose of a TARIFF is; raise taxes on imported goods.
o Fordney-McCumber (1922)
o Hawley-Smoot
Know about the African American Great Migration (1910-1920)
Know about Democrat Candidate William Jennings Bryan’s and his Cross of Gold Speech
o How did this effect farmers?
o Why did farmers oppose the gold standard and favor a silver standard?
Know about the Populist Party (The People’s Party)
o Mary Elizabeth Lease
o Farmers and Laborers
o Interstate Commerce Commission
o Election of 1892 and 1896
o Grange Movement
o Overproduction
o SCOTUS cases; Munn v. Illinois and Wabash v. Illinois
Causes of the Great Depression
o Credit
o Overproduction
o Uneven distribution of wealth
o Little money in circulation (Who bought more? Rich? Poor? )
o Buying stock on margin
New Deal Era and WWII
o President FDR (Roosevelt, Teddy’s cousin)
o Indian Reorganization Act (Indian New Deal)- more Tribal self-rule on reservations
o FDIC and bank runs
o Neutrality acts of 1935-1937 (stay neutral)
o Neutrality acts of 1939 (cash and carry/ lend-lease…involvement)
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o Relief, Recovery and Reform
o New Deal Alphabet Soup
o Dec. 7, 1941
o Island Hopping
o Allies and Axis powers
o Dictators
o Strategies
o D-day invasion
o V-E Day and V-J Day
Know about the Truman Doctrine and the Eisenhower Doctrine
o How do they compare?
Know about the Roosevelt Corollary (President Teddy Roosevelt)
o Intervention in Latin America (who is allowed to interfere?)
o Big White Fleet
o “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” (Big Stick Diplomacy)
o Panama Canal. Importance to U.S?
o Spanish-American War; Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
Political Cartoons, Pictures, Drawings;
1. Manifest Destiny: Western Expansion
2. Results of 15th Amendment; Republican Voting
3. Political Machines (possible cartoons)
4. Industrial Revolution
5. Chinese Exclusion Act (Industrial Revolution in the West)
6. Women’s Suffrage
7. Imperialism
China and the Open Door Policy/ Spheres of Influence/ Trade Zones
8. WWI/ League of Nations
9. Roaring Twenties/ Politics/ Social Movements
Harding’s Presidency and the Teapot Dome Scandal
Zacco and Vanzetti the radical anarchists
10. Great Depression
Bonus Army (during depression)
11. New Deal
12. WWII
13. 1950s Sunbelt Migration, Move to the suburbs. Conformity
14. Cold War
Bomb Shelters- Red Scare- nuclear war
Arms race- Cuban Missile Crisis