U.S. History Midterm
Review Sheet Part 1
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Chapter 5
1. Define: horizontal integration
2. Define: vertical integration
3. Identify: American Federation of Labor
4. Identify: Knights of Labor
5. Identify: Industrial Workers of the World
6. How did laissez faire policies affect monopolies and
trusts?
7. What factors contributed to the growth of industry in the
US in the late 19th century?
8. What were the purpose and provisions of the Sherman
Antitrust Act?
9. Explain the theory of Social Darwinism and how it
influenced American society.
Chapter 6
10. Define: urbanization
11. Define: political machine
12. Define: ward boss
13. Define: tenement
14. Define: settlement house.
15. What services did settlement houses provide for the
immigrants they served?
16. What was the goal of the Americanization movement?
17. Why would immigrants be a willing part of a political
machine?
18. List reasons why immigrants came to America in the late
1800s
Chapter 6
19. What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?
20. List the type of obstacles that kept African Americans
from voting in the late
19th century South.
21. What was the decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson court
case? Why is it important
in American history?
22. How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
differ in their proposals to achieve racial integration
Chapter 8
23. Identify: 16th Amendment
24. Identify: 17th Amendment
25. Identify: 18th Amendment
26. Identify: 19th Amendment
27. What were the goals of the NAACP?
28. Define: muckraker
29. Define: recall
30. Define: initiative
31. Define: referendum
32. Define: suffrage
Chapter 7
33. Define: yellow journalism
34. Define: imperialism
35. Define: dollar diplomacy
36. Identify the purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary.
37. Define: protectorate 38. What areas of the world did the US control as a result of the
Spanish-American War?
Chapter 8
39. Define: nationalism
40. Define: militarism
41. Define: reparations
42. Identify the purpose of the League of Nations.
43. Define: armistice
44. What were the causes of World War I?
45. List the new types of weapons used in World War I?
46. Why did many US Senators oppose the League of Nations?
Chapter 9 section 4; Chapter 10
47. Define: isolationism
48. Define: anarchist
49. Define: communism
50. Define: flapper
U.S. History Midterm
Review Sheet Part 2
Record your answers neatly and in order on another sheet!
Chapter 5
51. Describe factory-working conditions in the late 1800s.
52. Describe how unions tried to change these conditions.
Chapter 6
53. What was the impact of the large wave of immigration of
Southern and Eastern Europeans on the United States?
54. Describe the problems in cities in the late 1800s.
Chapter 6
55. Give examples of the limitations placed on African
Americans under the Jim Crow laws.
56. According to Booker T. Washington, equal rights would
result from . . .
57. According to DuBois, in what ways did Washington’s
philosophy accommodate the wishes of whites in society?
58. Define segregation.
Chapter 10
There will be a short reading and questions on the suffragist
movement.
Chapter 7
59. Why did industrial growth in the late 1800s help increase
American imperialism?
There will be a reading and questions on the annexation of
Hawaii.
Chapter 9
60. What actions were taken in the anti-German movement of
World War I?
61. What factors helped to push the US into World War I?
62. What was the impact of the Espionage and Sedition
Acts?
63. How did World War I influence the suffragist movement?
64. Explain the main provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
Describe which provisions (parts) most angered Germany.
Chapter 9 section 4; Chapter 10
65. Following World War I, there was an increase in violence
and discrimination against immigrants. After the war,
whites also began to fear the Great Migration. What was
the primary cause of this racial tension?
66. Describe a nativist’s opinion of the immigration quota
system enacted in the US in 1921. - p. 412, 415, & 417
67. What did the Sacco and Vanzetti trials demonstrate about
America in the 1920s?
68. What was the impact of the affordable automobile on the
American society in the 1920s?
69. What was prohibition? Why was it difficult to enforce?
70. What was the Great Migration?
Chapter 10
71. What was the significance of the Scopes trial in the
1920s?
72. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
73. Despite the popularity of black culture in the Harlem
Renaissance, how did whites treat blacks in the 1920’s?
74. What new forms of entertainment helped to shape a mass culture
in the United States?
75. Explain how Americans developed a new culture in the 1920s.
Cite examples of the new American culture.
76. Define speculation.
77. Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What did he fear happening to
America in the 1920s?
Chapter 11
78. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
79. What was Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great
Depression? How effective was he?
80. How did the Great Depression affect the role of
government in the economy?
81. What is buying stock on margin?
82. What are the three goals of the New Deal?
Chapter 12
83. Which New Deal programs have had a long-lasting
impact on American economy? Look up what these
programs are, tell what problem each was designed to
solve, how each would attempt to solve the problem, and
why they’re important today in order to answer this
question:
A. The Social Security Act
B. The Glass-Steagal Act and the FDIC
C. Federal Securities Act and the SEC
D. The FDC
E. The FHA
F. The NLRB
G. The CCC
H. The TVA
I. The WPA
84. What was the overall unemployment rate during the Depression?
85. Describe were the causes (p. 474) and the impact of the Dust
Bowl?
There will be a reading over FDR’s role in recovering from the Great
Depression.