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Study Sheet for Test #1 / Part I
STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #1
Know about these terms and you'll ace the test!
Abigail Adams
John Adams
African Americans and Native Americans (How Affected by American Revolution)
Albany Plan of Union (see glossary pp. 1045)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Annapolis Convention
Articles of Confederation (What They Said, Strengths and Weaknesses of)
Battles of Revolutionary War (Saratoga, Yorktown – Why Significant)
Bill of Rights
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Checks and Balances
Coercive Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Cornwallis
Declaration of Independence
Declaratory Act
Economics Differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
Enumerated, Implied, and Concurrent Powers
Federalists and Anti-Federalists (Differences)
Federalist Papers
Benjamin Franklin
French and Indian War (Consequences of / How Led to Am. Revolution)
Gaspee Incident
Great Awakening
Great Compromise
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry
Impressment
Intolerable Acts
Jay's Treaty
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Thomas Jefferson (Role in Continental Congress / Achievements of First Term as President)
Land Ordinance of 1785
Lexington and Concord (significance of)
John Locke (beliefs, influence of)
James Madison
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
John Marshall
Mayflower Compact (see glossary pp. 1053)
Pontiac's Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Quebec Act
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Thomas Paine
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Pinckney's Treaty
Paul Revere
Ratification of the Constitution (Federalist Papers)
Republic (as a form of government, how different from democracy)
Rochambeau
Role Played By Women in the American Revolution
Separation of Powers
Shay's Rebellion
Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty
Strict vs. Loose Interpretation of the Constitution
Sugar Act
"Taxation without Representation"
Tea Act
Three-Fifths Compromise
Tories
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Valley Forge
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
George Washington
Washington's Farewell Address (what it said)
Women in the American Revolution (role of)
XYZ Affair
Whiskey Rebellion
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Study Sheet for Test #1 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION ONE - The Northwest Ordinance has been called a model for democratic treatment of colonies. Discuss three provisions of the Northwest Ordinance and show how each justifies this statement.
QUESTION TWO - The Federalists and Anti-Federalists battled vigorously over the ratification of the Constitution: (a) explain two arguments advanced by the Federalists in favor of ratification; (b) explain two arguments presented by the Anti-Federalists against ratification; (c) discuss two factors that ultimately enabled the Federalists to secure ratification
QUESTION THREE - In developing a plan of government, the framers of the United States Constitution debated and compromised on a number of issues. Some of these issues are listed below – choosing a president, federalism, representation, slavery, taxation, trade. Choose any three of the above issues and for each one (a) explain the arguments on both sides of the debate; (b) describe the compromise that resulted from the argument in the debate – you must use a different compromise for each issue.
QUESTION FOUR – Select the three people from the 1763-1803 era who you believe to have been most critical in shaping the future course of United States history. For each person you select, cite three specific reasons in support of your argument.
QUESTION FIVE - The years between 1790 and 1800 saw the emergence of the first two-party system in America – Federalists and Republicans. First, identify who the key leaders of these two parties were. Then describe three specific issues of the period that the parties disagreed about, briefly explaining each side's position.
QUESTION SIX - How do separation of powers and checks and balances prevent any one branch of the federal government from becoming too strong? Be specific with regard to (a) how the president checks and balances Congress and the Judiciary; (b) how Congress can check and balance the President and the Judiciary; (c) how the judiciary can check and balance the president and Congress
QUESTION SEVEN - The Constitution of the United States represented an effort to correct the flaws of the original Articles of Confederation. Select any three specific flaws in the articles. For each one you select you should (a) describe a specific historical example of the types of problems this flaw created; (b) explain how the framers of the Constitution corrected this flaw
QUESTION EIGHT - Some historians have argued that the best explanation for the causes of the Revolutionary War can be found in looking at economic issues. Others contend that political issues, more than economic ones, explain the outbreak of the War. With which side do you agree most? Explain your answer and be sure to cite three specific examples in your explanation.
QUESTION NINE – Who was a more successful President, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson? In your response, please provide three specific reasons to support your thesis. Also, please limit your answers only to the presidential years of each man. (In other words, for example, the fact that Jefferson
was the chief author of the Declaration of Independence is irrelevant here).
QUESTION TEN – Explain why the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison has often been called the most important in United States history.
QUESTION THIRTEEN – Analyze the contributions of TWO of the following in helping establish a stable government after the adoption of the Constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Adams
- George Washington
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STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #2
Abolitionists (black and white, who they were, what they believed)
American System (Who Proposed It / What Its Parts Were)
Appomattox
Battles of the Civil War (Antietam, Vicksburg, Bull Run Gettysburg) and Why Each Was Important
"Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown
Caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
Carpetbaggers
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Constitutional Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th)
Copperheads
"Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 (What it was / Who was involved)
Dorothea Dix
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Emancipation Proclamation
Frederick Douglass
Fort Sumter
Forty-Niners
Free-Soil Party
Freeport Doctrine
Fugitive Slave Act
Gadsden Purchase
William Lloyd Garrison
Gettysburg Address
Gold Rush
Ulysses Grant
Habeas Corpus
Harper's Ferry
Hartford Convention
Homestead Act
Immigrants (Why They Came and Where They Came From)
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Indian Removal Act
Internal Improvements (roads and canals - what they were / who paid for them)
Andrew Jackson
Jim Crow Laws
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothing Party (Who They Were / What They Wanted)
Ku Klux Klan
Robert E. Lee
Lecompton Constitution
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Literacy Tests
Abraham Lincoln (his life, his importance, what his plans for reconstruction were)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Mexican War (Causes and Consequences)
Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine
Nativism
North vs. South (Advantages and Disadvantages Entering Civil War)
Nullification Crisis (South Carolina 1828 and 1832)
Oregon Trail (importance of / experiences of settlers on / obstacles they faced)
Panic of 1837 (causes of)
Plantations
Poll Taxes
Popular Sovereignty
Potawatamie Massacre
Radical Republicans
Reconstruction
Scalawags
Secession (What it was, who did it, for what reasons)
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention (Reasons For / Impact of / Key People at)
Slave Codes
Slave Rebellions And Other Ways That Slaves Resisted/Protested Their Enslavement
Slavery (What Life as a Slave Was Like / House Slaves, Field Slaves, Etc.)
Spoils System (and other ways Jacksonian Era changed American Politics)
States' Rights
Tariff of Abominations
Technology (Steamboat and Cotton Gin)
Transcendentalists (Who They Were / What They Believed / Role of Brook Farm)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Nat Turner and Slave Rebellions
Wade-Davis Bill
War of 1812 (Causes and Consequences)
"War Hawks"
Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois
Whigs
Wilmot Proviso
Women & African Americans during the Civil War
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Study Sheet for Test #2 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION ONE - The creation of new technologies, population changes, and economic changes during the 1820-1860 period had a profound effect on the course of American History. Select one population trend, one economic trend and one technological development. For each one, (a) describe the change/trend/invention (b) explain how it changed/affected the future course of American history.
QUESTION TWO - Critics of certain policies invented each of the following terms: "corrupt bargain" (1824), "tariff of abominations" (1828), "King Andrew" (1832). (a) What were the critics' reasons for attacking each policy? (b) How might Jackson defend each policy?
QUESTION THREE - Immigrants from Germany and Ireland in the first half of the 19th Century faced both opportunities and obstacles. First explain what factors motivated each group to emigrate to the United States. Then discuss any two opportunities and any two significant obstacles that these groups encountered
QUESTION FOUR - Ralph Waldo Emerson once said of the Mexican War: "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man who swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn, Mexico will poison us." Was Emerson right? Explain your answer.
QUESTION FIVE – Beyond the issue of race and slavery, philosophical and reform movements of the period 1820-1860 changed American History in important ways. Assess the validity of this statement with regard to any three of the following five movements: temperance, the asylum movement, public education, the transcendentalists, women's rights
QUESTION SIX - Historians often disagree about what caused the Civil War. Select THREE events from the 1820-1860 period. For each: (a) briefly summarize the event; (b) explain how the event increased sectional tensions and brought the United States closer to civil war.
QUESTION SEVEN - "A good part of the credit for ending slavery belongs to the slaves and former slaves themselves." Assess this statement with specific reference to THREE of the following: The Confiscation acts, the Emancipation Proclamation, African American soldiers, Slave Rebellions, The Thirteenth Amendment, and Black Abolitionists
QUESTION EIGHT - War inevitably has far-reaching effects upon a nation. Show how the Civil War and reconstruction affected each of the following: (a) the powers of the states (b) American industry (c) African Americans (d) the powers of the President (e) the economy of the South
QUESTION NINE - It might well be said that white settlers on the one hand and Native Americans on the other might have very different views about whether the Westward expansion that marked the 1814-1877 was a positive event in American history. Write one paragraph from each point of view. As you do so, be sure to cite and discuss two specific events/reasons each side might point to in making their argument.
QUESTION TEN - Explain whether in 1877 reconstruction would be considered a success from the points of view of each of the following people (a) a black person living in the South (b) a white person living in the South (c) a white person living in the North. Finally offer your own assessment as to the success or failure of reconstruction. For each viewpoint, be sure to support your argument with specific historical examples/evidence.
QUESTION ELEVEN – How did TWO of the following contribute to the reemergence of a two-party system during the years 1820-1840?
- Major political personalities
- States' Rights
- Economic Issues
QUESTION TWELVE – In what ways did developments in transportation bring about economic and social change in the United States in the period 1820 to 1860?
QUESTION THIRTEEN – Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in TWO of the following regions.
- The South
- The North
- The West
Focus your answer on the period between 1865 and 1900.
QUESTION FOURTEEN – The Jacksonian Period (1824-1848) has been celebrated as the era of the "common man." To what extent did the period live up to its characterization? Consider TWO of the following in your response.
- Economic development
- Politics
- Reform Movements
QUESTION FIFTEEN – Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of TWO of the following.
- Missouri Compromise
- Mexican War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
QUESTION SIXTEEN - The Louisiana Purchase had both positive and negative consequences for the United States. Explain, citing at least two examples on each side of the argument
QUESTION SEVENTEEN - "Since the Treaty of Ghent addressed none of the issues for which the United States had fought, the War of 1812 had no positive consequences for the American nation." Agree or disagree with the above statement. Regardless of the position you take, be certain to explain at least three ways (positive, negative, or a combination of both) in which the War of 1812 shaped America and its history.
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STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #3
Jane Addams
American Federation of Labor (tactics, leaders, goals, accomplishments)
Anarchists and Socialists (what they are, how they view government)
Baseball as National Pastime
Bessemer Process
Bosque Redondo Reservation
William Jennings Bryan
Andrew Carnegie
Cattle Boom (what it was / reasons why it started and ended)
Chain Stores
Chief Joseph
Chinese Exclusion Act (what it was, why it was passed)
Civil Service Reforms
Closed shops
Coal, Iron, Steam and Steel (role in industrialization of America)
Comstock Lode
Cornering the gold market
Conservation Movement (what it was, who conservationists were, what they accomplished)
Credit Mobilier Scandal (what it was about)
Dawes Act
Thomas A. Edison
Eighteenth Amendment
Election of 1912 (split in Republican Party, causes of, consequences of)
Elkins Act
Farmers (conditions and problems they faced, why they moved to the Great Plains)
Farmers' Alliance (who they were / political and economic goals of farmers)
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission
Free Silver
Geronimo
Gospel of Wealth
Grange Movement (who they were, what they wanted government to do)
Horace Greeley
Haymarket Affair
Half-Breeds
Homestead Act
Horizontal Organization / Vertical Organization (what each was, how they are different)
Immigration Between 1860 and 1900 (what countries they came from, how they lived)
Industrialization in late 1800s (reasons for / consequences of / importance of railroads in)
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
Interior Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (who they were / policies they supported)
Knights of Labor (who they were, positions they advocated, what they accomplished)
Laissez Faire Approach to Economics
Lockouts
Long Walk
Meat Inspection Act
Middle Class of late 1800s
Morrill Act
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American History Study Sheet #3 Cont'd
Muckrakers (Frank Norris, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis – what they wrote, what their impact was)
Mugwumps vs. Stalwarts
NAACP
New Nationalism
Nineteenth Amendment
Pacific Railway Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Gifford Pinchot
Populist Party (who they were, goals of)
Progressives (goals of, who their leaders were, what they accomplished, where they failed)
Progressive Party / Bull Moose Party
Pullman Strike of 1894 (who involved, where took place, what issues were)
Pure Food and Drug Act
Reservation System / Reservation policy
John D. Rockefeller
Theodore Roosevelt (domestic policies of)
Settlement House Movement
Sherman Antitrust Act and Clayton Antitrust Act
Sitting Bull
Social Darwinism
Square Deal (what it was, what it called for)
Strikebreakers
Suffrage Movement
William Howard Taft (what he accomplished, reasons for dispute with Theodore Roosevelt and progressives, consequences of dispute for election of 1912)
Tammany Hall
Tariff Policies (Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Underwood Tariff Act)
Transcontinental Railroad (impact of, how government aided construction)
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy (causes and consequences of)
Trusts and "Trust Busting"
Frederick Jackson Turner (Frontier Thesis)
Mark Twain
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed
Whiskey Ring
Woodrow Wilson (domestic policies of)
Women's Christian Temperance Union
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Study Sheet for Test #3 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION ONE - The heads of large industrial corporations played a major role in American economic development during the Gilded Age. Select any two people who were industrial leaders during the Gilded Age. For each, show how each of the following factors contributed to the success of these industrial leaders: (1) their use of natural resources (2) their forms of business organization (3) their own personal characteristics. Then offer your own opinion as to whether, all things considered, each person was ultimately a positive or negative force in American history.
QUESTION TWO - "The ability of our system of government to respond to changing conditions of society has been made possible in large part by the fact that the Constitution can be amended." Assess the validity of this statement with reference to three of the issues listed below: (a) women's suffrage (b) tax revision (c) temperance (d) election of senators
QUESTION THREE – An argument can be made that during the 1877-1914 period, political change in the United States was inspired and shaped far more by groups and individuals outside the government than inside. Select any three of the following groups: (a) farmers (b) suffragettes (c) progressives (d) muckrakers/critics of big business (e) heads of large corporations (f) labor unions (g) conservationists. For each group you select, describe the changes/policies they wanted the U.S. government to adopt, whether or not they were successful in achieving those goals, and how that success (or lack of it) shaped American history.
QUESTION FOUR – Changes in technology during the 1877-1914 period profoundly affected American life during the Gilded Age and beyond. Select any three important technological changes that came about during the Gilded Age. For each one you select, explain in detail how that invention changed American society.
QUESTION FIVE - During the period from 1877 to 1914 the Federal Government took specific steps that, at different times: (a) encouraged the growth of big business; (b) attempted to control the growth and excesses of big business. Select two measures that encouraged the growth of big business and explain how and whether each measure worked. Then select two steps that attempted to control the growth and excesses of big business and explain how and whether each measure worked.
QUESTION SIX - During the second half of the 19th century, literary figures in the United States produced works critical of society and advocating change. Select three of the writers listed below. For each one chosen, (a) identify a written work for which they were famous; (b) an problem that was addressed by that work; (c) the way the author suggested that government ought to address that problem: Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
QUESTION SEVEN – "Although the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, and the International Workers of the World were all labor unions, they had different goals, methods and levels of success." Discuss this statement.
QUESTION EIGHT – The question of whether the years between 1877 and 1914 were or were not ones of progress in American history can certainly be debated. Select any three of the following people: For each one, (a) explain how they would view the 1877-1914 period; (b) the specific reasons why they would have this view (a) an African-American living in the South (b) a Native American living on the Great Plains (c) an immigrant living in a large city (d) a worker in a large industrial factory (e) a farmer in the Midwest (f) a middle-class consumer
QUESTION NINE - For each of the following comparisons, state which President, you think, handled the matter better and defend your answer: (a) Theodore Roosevelt or Grover Cleveland in regard to a labor disputes, (b) Theodore Roosevelt and Taft in regard to enforcing the antitrust law, (c) Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson in regard to securing progressive legislation
QUESTION TEN – Compare immigration in the late 19th century with immigration in the 1840s. To what extent can it be said that the process and the experiences (both for new immigrants and for those already in the United States) were similar? To what extent were they different?
QUESTION ELEVEN - DBQ – Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers and the federal government in bringing about reform at the national level. In your answer be sure to analyze the successes and limitations of these efforts in the period 1900-1920.
QUESTION TWELVE – Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900)
QUESTION THIRTEEN – Identify and analyze the factors that changed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century.
QUESTION FOURTEEN – How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900? Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved. (DBQ from 2000)
QUESTION FIFTEEN – How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the 19th Century affected by technological developments and government actions?
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STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #4
Emilio Aguinaldo
"Alphabet Soup" Agencies & Their Roles (CCC, CWA, FERA, FDIC, NIRA, PWA, TVA)
Anti-Imperialist League
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Automobile and Its Role in American Life
Balfour Declaration
Banks and Bank Holiday
Bonus Army
Boston Police Strike
Charles E. Coughlin
Committee on Public Information
"Court-Packing" (Roosevelt's Plan)
Crash of 1929 (causes and consequences)
Commodore George Dewey
"Dollar Diplomacy"
Dust Bowl (what it was, how it affected farmers)
Election of 1928
Espionage Act
Farmers during the Great Depression
Federal Project No. 1
Federal Reserve Act
Flappers
Fourteen Points
Good Neighbor Policy
Great Depression (What it Was, Factors that Caused It, Effects on American Society)
Harlem Renaissance
William Randolph Hearst
"Hoovervilles" and Shantytowns
"Hundred Days"
John Hay
Harold Ickes
Immigration Act of 1924
Imperialism
Irreconcilables
Jazz and Swing (Famous Artists)
Kellogg-Briand Pact
John Maynard Keynes
Ku Klux Klan
League of Nations
Charles Lindbergh
Henry Cabot Lodge
Huey Long
"Lost Generation" (who they were, why they were called that)
Lusitania
Alfred T. Mahan
U.S.S. Maine
Marcus Garvey
Movies in the 1930s
New Deal and New Deal Coalition
Open Door Policy
Palestine Mandate
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Palmer Raids
Panama Canal
General John Pershing
Philippine Insurrection
Platt Amendment
Gavrilo Principe
Prohibition
Joseph Pulitzer
"Return to Normalcy"
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Russo-Japanese War
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Scopes Trial (Who Was Involved, What it Was About)
Scottsboro Boys
Sedition Act
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Spanish-American War (Causes and Consequences)
"Strict Neutrality"
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Francis E. Townsend
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Volstead Act
Wagner-Connery Act
War Industries Board
"Watchful Waiting"
Valeriano Weyler
Woodrow Wilson
World War I (How it Started, How U.S. Got Involved, How U.S. Paid for It, Consequences Of)
"Yellow Journalism"
Zimmerman Note
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Study Sheet for Test #4 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three thematic/essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION 1 - Assess the importance of three of the following in the U.S. decision to declare war against Spain in 1898 (a) yellow journalism (b) the sinking of the Maine (c) U.S. business interests (d) naval strategists (e) the Cuban revolution
QUESTION 2 - Since, from the U.S. point of view, there were no negative consequences from the Spanish-American War, John Hay was right to call it "a splendid little war." Assess the validity of this statement with respect to the opinions of any four of the following: (a) William Jennings Bryan (b) Theodore Roosevelt (c) Alfred Thayer Mahan (d) Emilio Aguinaldo (e) a Cuban revolutionary (f) a member of the Anti-Imperialist League
QUESTION 3 – Individuals played powerful roles in shaping the course of American foreign policy between 1898 and 1920. Describe one way in which any four of the following individuals affected the direction of the foreign policy of the United States. (a) Theodore Roosevelt (b) William Randolph Hearst (c) Woodrow Wilson (d) Henry Cabot Lodge (e) Alfred T. Mahan
QUESTION 4 – In your view, during the years 1900-1914 (note, this is after the Spanish-American war had ended) was the United States a "Good Neighbor" in Latin America? Take a position and then point to and discuss three specific historical examples that help support your argument.
QUESTION 5 – Assess the importance of three of the following factors in the U.S. abandoning its neutrality and entering World War I (a) anti-German propaganda (b) Woodrow Wilson's own idealism (c) unrestricted submarine warfare (d) the Zimmerman note
QUESTION 6 - At various times, particularly during times of war and immediately thereafter, civil liberties have been seriously threatened in the United States. One such period was the decade that followed World War I. Give three examples of threats to civil liberties during this period. For each one, describe the threat and briefly explain the outcome.
QUESTION 7 - During the period 1914-1929 (except for the years 1920-1921) the American economy made great advances, causing President Hoover to declare at one point, "We are nearer today to the ideal of the abolition of poverty…than ever before in any land." (a) Identify three factors that helped promote the growth of the economy during this period and discuss how each contributed to this growth (b) Using specific historical information, discuss one impact that industrialization had on the United States during the period 1914-1921
QUESTION 8 - Analyze the role of THREE of the following in bringing about the Great Depression or making it worse: (a) farm problems (b) income distribution (c) world trade and finance (d) government policy (e) the stock market
QUESTION 9 - President Roosevelt said that the New Deal had three goals – relief, recovery and reform. Select any three New Deal agencies or commissions and assess how well each did in meeting Roosevelt's goals. "New conditions impose new requirements upon government and those who conduct government" said Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
QUESTION 10 – "Instead of making the world safe for democracy, the Treaty of Versailles planted the seeds of second World War." Assess the validity of this statement explaining three specific reasons why you agree or disagree with it. Would you agree or disagree with the argument (from the video on World War I) that "In the peace that followed World War I, Woodrow Wilson became as much a casualty as any soldier who fell on the battlefield." Explain your reasons.
QUESTION 11 – How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to TWO of the following.
- Relief
- Recovery
- Reform
QUESTION 12 – Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American society from 1900 to 1930.
QUESTION 13 – In what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920s as the Roaring Twenties?
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Study Sheet for Test #5 / Part I
STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #5
38th Parallel
African-Americans During World War II (role played by, at home and in combat)
Appeasement
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Atomic Bomb (and Truman's Decision to Drop It)
Automation (what it was, who was affected)
Axis Powers
Baby Boom
Battles of World War II and Their Significance
Bay of Pigs
The Beats (Who They Were, What They Did)
Berlin Airlift
Berlin
Crisis
Blacklisting
Brinksmanship
Brown v. Board of Education
Cash and Carry
CIA (In Guatemala and Iran)
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (what it did, why it was important)
Cold War
Containment Policy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Winston Churchill
D-Day ("Operation Overlord")
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
Thomas E. Dewey
Dixiecrats
Dresden Firebombing
John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower (Domestic and Foreign Policy Highlights)
Eisenhower Doctrine
Economy in the 1950s (positives and negatives)
Fair Deal (what it was, key components of)
G.I. Bill of Rights
Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers
Adolf Hitler
"Hollywood Ten"
Holocaust (and most significant concentration camps)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Inchon Landing
Interstate Highways
Iron Curtain
Isolationists of the 1930s (Who They Were, What Reasons They Gave)
Israel (Truman Recognition of, 1948 War of Independence)
Japanese-Americans (Internment of During World War II, Supreme Court Reaction to)
George Kennan
Martin Luther King
Nikita Khruschev
Korean War
Landrum-Griffin Act (key parts of)
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Lend-Lease
Levittown (and Rise of Suburbs in America)
Little Rock Desegregation Crisis
Long March
Loyalty Oath
Douglas MacArthur
Thurgood Marshall
Muhammad Mossadegh
Benito Mussolini
Munich Conference
NAACP (and other key civil rights organizations – SCLC, CORE, SNCC)
NASA
Panay Incident
Rosa Parks
Marshall Plan
Massive Retaliation
Medical Achievements of 1950s (DNA / Salk Polio Vaccine)
Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism and Army-McCarthy Hearings)
Richard Nixon
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nuremberg Trials
Pearl Harbor
Quiz Show Scandals
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Sputnik
Joseph Stalin
Adlai Stevenson
Suez Crisis
Taft-Hartley Act
Television (Impact on American Life)
Harry Truman (Domestic and Foreign Policy Highlights)
Truman Doctrine
U-2 Incident
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Wartime Conferences (Potsdam, Yalta, Tehran, Casablanca…Significance of)
Women During World War II (role of, "Rosie the Riveter")
World War II (causes and effects, why the U.S. won the war, how defeated nations were treated)
Writers in the 1950s (Baldwin, Kerouac, Reisman, Salinger, Whyte, Wilson)
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American History
Study Sheet for Test #5 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three thematic/essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION 1 – "President Roosevelt recognized the dangers of fascism early and did all that he could under the circumstances to lead the nation away from a policy of isolationism." First, describe the nature of the isolationist opposition Roosevelt faced. Then discuss three specific actions taken by Roosevelt that prove or refute the validity of the quotation.
QUESTION 2 – Discuss some of the effects World War II had on three of the following groups (a) European Jews (b) American women (c) African Americans (d) Japanese Americans
QUESTION 3 – Did President Truman do the right thing in dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945? Take a position and thoroughly explain your reasons.
QUESTION 4 – In what ways did the early years of the Cold War (1946-1952) affect American political, economic, and social life? In your analysis, comment on THREE of the following: (a) liberalism versus conservatism (b) civil liberties (c) the size of government (d) U.S. involvement in world affairs (e) economic prosperity
QUESTION 5 – Philosopher George Santayana once famously said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." To what extent can it be said that U.S. foreign policy makers in the aftermath of the Second World War were following Santayana's advice, having been shaped by the experiences of their predecessors following the First World War. Cite three specific policies or decisions from the post-World War I period and then point to specific ways in which the policies and decisions of the 1945-1950 period were different.
QUESTION 6 – "The driving force for the civil rights movement came from African American citizens, not from elected officials, black or white." Assess the validity of this statement by analyzing three important civil rights-related events of the 1950s.
QUESTION 7 – Were the widespread fears of domestic communism during the years 1946-1954 justified or were those fears an overreaction? Take a position and support your argument using three historical examples.
QUESTION 8 – Domestically, was the United States during the 1950s a nation undergoing enormous change or merely a nation (to paraphrase Warren Harding) "returning to normalcy" after almost twenty years of depression and world war. Take a position and then cite four historical examples to support your thesis.
QUESTION 9 – The Korean Conflict has often been called "the forgotten war", but it should not be. It shaped the future course of U.S. History in powerful ways. Assess the validity of this statement, citing three specific historical examples to support your thesis.
QUESTION 10 – Were the foreign policies of Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the years 1953-1960 generally a success or a failure? Take a position and cite three specific historical examples, explaining how each supports your thesis.
QUESTION 11 – Compare and contrast United States society in the 1920s and in the 1950s with respect to TWO of the following:
- Race relations
- The role of women
- Consumerism
QUESTION 12 – Compare and contrast United States foreign policy after the First World War and after the Second World War. Consider the periods 1919-1928 and 1945-1950.
QUESTION 13 – Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following shaped American politics after the Second World War
- Anticommunism in the 1940s and 1950s
- The women's liberation movement in the 1960s
- The "silent majority" in the 1970s
Weisler
American History
Study Sheet for Test #6 / Part I
STUDY SHEET- AMERICAN HISTORY – TEST #6
26th Amendment
Affirmative Action
Afghanistan (Soviet Invasion of)
Agent Orange
Spiro Agnew
Alliance for Progress
Altamont Raceway Concert
Baker v. Carr
Berlin Crisis
Black Panthers
Black Power Movement
Leonid Brezhnev
British Invasion
Busing
Cambodia (bombing and invasion of, reasons for, Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot)
Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter (Major foreign and domestic policy highlights)
Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1968
Chile (Overthrow of Allende Government in)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Civil Rights Movement (what it was, other groups inspired by)
Civil Rights Organizations (NAACP, SCLC, CORE, SNCC)
Cold War (end of in 1989, reasons for)
Archibald Cox
Dien Bien Phu (French in Vietnam, Why U.S. Supported)
Bob Dylan
Economic Conditions during the 1970s (what they were, causes of, how presidents dealt with)
Economic Problems of late 1980s (S&L's, Market Crash, Deficits)
El Salvador and Nicaragua (U.S. involvement in, reasons for)
Equal Rights Amendment
Sam Ervin
Escobedo v. Illinois
Flexible Response
Gerald Ford
Freedom Summer
Geneva Conference
Gideon v. Wainwright
Glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
Great Society (what it was, programs contained in)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
H.R. Haldeman
"Hawks"' and "Doves"
Helsinki Accords
Hippies
Hubert Humphrey
Iran-Contra Scandal
Weisler
American History Study Sheet #6 Cont'd
Iran Hostage Crisis (causes and consequences, role of Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini)
Le Duc Tho
Lyndon Johnson (foreign and domestic policy highlights, why he didn't seek re-election in 1968)
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Kent State University
Nikita Khruschev
Henry Kissinger
Eugene McCarthy
George McGovern
Robert McNamara
March on Washington
March from Selma to Montgomery
Mapp v. Ohio
Mayaguez Incident
Miranda v. Arizona
Richard Nixon (major foreign and domestic policy highlights, role in Watergate, pardon of)
November 22nd, 1963
"Operation Desert Storm"
OPEC (Oil Crisis of 1973)
Panama Canal Treaty
Peace Corps
Pentagon Papers
Perestroika
Pop Artists (who they were)
Poor People's March
Ronald Reagan (domestic and foreign policy highlights, Reaganomics)
Riots in Inner Cities (Watts, Kerner Commission)
Roe v. Wade
Nelson Rockefeller
Fall of Saigon
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Tet Offensive (what it was, consequences of)
Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill
University of Calfornia Regents v. Bakke
Vietcong
Vietnam War (causes and consequences, reasons for U.S. withdrawal from)
Watergate
Warren Court (controversial decisions of)
"Whip Inflation Now"
William Westmoreland
Woodward and Bernstein (and role of Washington Post in Watergate Scandal)
Woodstock Music Festival
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American History
Study Sheet for Test #6 / Part II
On the second part of your exam, you will be presented with three thematic/essay questions and asked to answer two of them. The three questions you will see will be taken from the following list of ten:
QUESTION 1 - During the turbulent period of the 1960s, government policies and practices were greatly influenced by non-elected groups or individuals. Select three such groups. For each one, explain who the group was and who it represented and how that group (or an individual within it) influenced/changed the policies and practices of the United States government. Use specific historical examples to support your answer.
QUESTION 2 – Government actions can and often do shape the course of American History. Assess the validity of this statement, selecting any three laws or court cases from the 1961 to 1981 period.
QUESTION 3 - The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from 1945 until 1989 and was ultimately won by the United States. Reflect on the years 1945-1989 and identify four specific people, policies, decisions or events that explain this outcome. - USE
QUESTION 4 - Evaluate whether Jimmy Carter's foreign policy was a success, using four of the following in your analysis: (a) human rights policy (b) Panama Canal Treaty (c) Camp David Accords (d) Iranian Revolution (e) Salt II Treaty
QUESTION 5 - To understand the problem of Vietnam, Americans should know the history of that country and of our involvement there. (a) Explain two reasons why the Communists in Vietnam were able to win popular support against French rule (b) Trace the development of United States involvement in Vietnam by describing one action of each of the following Presidents: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon (c) discuss one argument supporting and one argument opposing United States involvement in Vietnam
QUESTION 6 - "As president, Lyndon Johnson was a success at home and a failure abroad whereas Richard Nixon was exactly the opposite." Assess the validity of this statement. - USE
QUESTION 7 – "America was a vastly different country in 1975 than it had been in 1960." Assess the validity of this statement, citing and discussing four specific examples to support your argument. - USE
QUESTION 8 - Discuss the legacies of the Vietnam War. Explain the effects of Vietnam on: (a) U.S. politics (b) the U.S. economy (c) the veterans who fought the war (d) the future course of U.S. military policy. - USE
QUESTION 9 – Consider the presidencies of the following men: (a) John F. Kennedy (b) Lyndon Johnson (c) Richard Nixon (d) Gerald Ford (e) Jimmy Carter (f) Ronald Reagan. On balance, which two presidents do you think were the most "successful"? For each person you selected, cite two specific reasons to support your position.
QUESTION 10 - Examine the reasons for America's faltering economy during the 1970s. Analyze how three of the following four presidents: (a) Nixon (b) Ford (c) Carter (d) Reagan attempted to deal with these economic problems. Did each succeed or fail?
QUESTION 11 – Describe and account for changes in the American presidency between 1960 and 1975, as symbolized by Kennedy's "Camelot," Johnson's Great Society, and Nixon's Watergate. In your answer, address the powers of the presidency and the role of the media.
QUESTION 12 – How did the African American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s address the failures of reconstruction?
QUESTION 13 – Discuss, with respect to TWO of the following, the view that the 1960s represented a period of profound cultural change.
- Education
- Gender Roles
- Music
- Race Relations
QUESTION 14 – Assess the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
