U.S. II Midterm Review Sheet
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Ch. 18 America Claims an Empire
Ch. 18.1 Imperialism and America
imperialism (what stimulated it)
Ch. 18.2 The Spanish-American War
de Lome letter
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Spanish-American War
yellow journalism
U.S.S. Maine
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico (their residents became citizens of the U.S. in 1917)
Cuba (what did they gain as a result of the Spanish-American War)
Philippine islands (what did the U.S. do with them after the war)
Ch. 18.3 Acquiring New Lands
Platt Amendment
Foraker Act
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Imperialist powers (who were they)
Ch. 18.4 America as a World Power
Roosevelt Corollary (what did this build on)
dollar diplomacy (who used it)
missionary diplomacy (who used it)
Panama Canal (who was president) (How did the U.S. gain control of this land)
General John J. Pershing
Roosevelt’s foreign policy
Why did Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
Ch. 19 The First World War
Ch. 19.1 World War I Begins
Causes of WWI
Schlieffen plan (why was it effective)
Neutrality
alliance system
Allies
Central Powers
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What caused starvation in Germany?
Ch. 19.2 American Power Tips the Balance
Selective Service Act
mechanized warfare (airplanes and tanks)
Convoy system
Ch. 19.3 The War at Home
Espionage and Sedition Acts
What gains did women make
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Ch. 19.4 Wilson Fights for Peace
Big Four
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen points (Who rejected it?)
Why did Senators oppose U.S. membership in the League of Nations
Ch. 20 Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Ch. 20.1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
● Sacco and Vanzetti (what were they convicted of?)
● A. Mitchell Palmer (what did he want to remove from the U.S.?)
● What did employers accuse striking workers of being?
● Nativists
● Communism (what did it call for?)
● John L. Lewis (what strike was he associated with?)
Ch. 20.2 The Harding Presidency
● Kellogg-Briand Pact (why was it useless?)
Ch. 21 The Roaring Life of the 1920s
Ch. 21.1 Changing Ways of Life
● Prohibition (why was it difficult to enforce?)
● speakeasy
● John T. Scopes (what did he teach that was illegal?)
● fundamentalism
● Great Migration
Ch. 21.4 The Harlem Renaissance
● Harlem Renaissance
Ch. 22 The Great Depression Begins
Ch. 22.1 The Nation’s Sick Economy
● farmers issues
● Causes of the Great Depression
● buying on margin
● speculation
● Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Ch. 22.2 Hardship and Suffering During the Depression
● Causes of the Dust Bowl
● Psychological stress of the depression
● hoboes
Ch. 22.3 Hoover Struggles with the Depression
● How did Hoover handle the depression after the stock market crash
● Bonus Army
● Who was in the election of 1932
● direct relief
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Hoovervilles
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Hoover’s approach to the depression
What percentage of people were unemployed during the Great Depression?
What was a long term effect of the Great Depression (people developed habits of saving and thriftiness)
Ch. 23 The New Deal
Ch. 23.1 A New Deal Fights the Depression
● First major action Roosevelt took as president
● Goals of the New Deal
● Agricultural Adjustment Act
● What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in Franklin Roosevelt’s administration?
● Huey Long
● Civilian Conservation Corps
● National Industrial Recovery Act (ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court)
● Deficit spending led to a new high in the national debt
● Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Ch. 23.2 The Second New Deal Takes Hold
● Works Progress Administration
● Social Security Act
Ch. 23.3 The New Deal Affects Many Groups
● Frances Perkins
● New Deal Coalition
Ch. 23.4 Culture of the 1930s
● Grapes of Wrath (Who was the author?)
● Woody Guthrie
Ch. 24 World War Looms
Ch. 24.1 Dictators Threaten World Peace
● Joseph Stalin
● Francisco Franco
● What did Hitler oppose? (Treaty of Versailles)
● What replaced democracies in Europe after World War I?
Historical Assessments of Thinking: ​You will be assessed on the sourcing and corroborations skill through a
question on American imperialism.
PIE, IE Paragraph: ​You will write a PIE, IE paragraph on imperialism. The Central Historical Question is
below. You have NOT seen these documents yet. Therefore you will not be able to write the PIE, IE paragraph
in advance.
Central Historical ​Question: Was imperialism a proper and legitimate policy for the United States to follow at
the turn of the nineteenth century? Support your answer with evidence from the attached documents.