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Chapter 17: The West -- Exploiting an Empire (1849-1902)
Describe American geography West of Missouri. Explain how this geography became desirable to American settlers.
List at least 10 Native American tribes who inhabited land west of the Mississippi.
Describe Plains Indian lifestyles. Include societal roles of men and women and migration patterns.
Explain the significance of the Fetterman Massacre.
What was the purpose of reservations?
Explain the significance of Custer's Last Stand.
Describe the Ghost Dance. Include what it was intended to do, and how it was interpreted by Americans.
Describe the Wounded Knee Massacre. Explain what caused it, what happened, and its impact.
Explain "assimilation". How was the policy of assimilation implemented against Native Americans?
What was the Dawes Act?
Describe the impact of their discovery of Gold in California in 1948 on population and society in the West.
Describe the impact of the railroads on the West.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862? How many people partook in the Homestead Act?
What is a bonanza?
What major minerals led to extensive mining in the Western United States? Given examples of major strikes.
What led to the increase of Asian immigration in the West?
Explain what led to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What were the two major rulings of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Describe the impact of cattle ranching on the West.
What crops were planted in large scale in the Western United States? Why?
Explain "Turner's Thesis".
Chapter 18: The Industrial Society (1850-1901)
List three or more inventions that modernized the late 1800's.
What invention, created by Alexander Bell, in the late 1800's revolutionized the world?
What raw materials were necessary for the American Industrial Revolution?
Why did the North grow more quickly in industry than the South following the Civil War?
What were the two most significant changes in technology during the 19th Century?
List several advantages of the railroad transportation system developed in the later half of the 19th Century.
What were some of the negative effects of federal land grants intended to expand railroads?
Explain how rail gauges could be used for competition.
Describe trunk lines.
How did the United States get time zones?
Where was the Transcontinental Railroads completed?
Who built the Transcontinental Railroad? Include worker populations.
Explain the significance of the Bessemer process.
Explain the connection between steel production and railroads.
Describe the rise of Carnegie.
Describe the rise of Rockefeller.
Define "trust". Define "monopoly".
List Edison's major inventions and explain the significance of each to American society.
How did electricity help expedite American population and urban growth?
Describe the life of working men, women and children.
What led to the rise in unions?
Describe the formation of the Knights of Labor and their impact.
Describe the formation of the AFL and its impact.
Describe the violence of the Haymarket Riot and other strikes in the early stages of unionization.
Describe the pros and cons of Industrialization of the United States.
Chapter 19: Toward an Urban Society (1877-1900)
Describe life in the slums.
What happened to the population of the United States between 1860 and 1910? Why?
What major forces reshaped America between 1870 and 1920?
What allowed for the age of skyscrapers?
What happened to Chicago in 1871? What was the result of this event?
Describe what a tenement was like.
Explain how the American immigrant populations changed after 1880.
How did "natives" react to immigration in the late 19th Century?
What did immigrant associations provide?
What was Tammany Hall? How powerful was it?
Describe urban machines. (political)
Analyze the Boss Tweed political cartoon on pg 437.
How did bosses keep their positions?
Analyze the American population in 1900.
Describe healthcare in the late 19th Century. Include common health concerns.
Who were the Mugwumps?
What was the goal of the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
What did people do for entertainment in the USA in the late 19th Century?
How did industrialization and urbanization change American family structure?
Describe the changes in women's positions and power in the late 19th Century.
Analyze the case of
Plessy v Ferguson.
Describe changes in higher education for Americans in the late 19th Century.
Describe the impact of the works of Booker T. Washington.
Describe the impact of the works of W.E.B. DuBois.
Where was Jim Crow prevalent? Give examples of several Jim Crow laws.
Explain social Darwinism.
What was the Social Gospel? Who did it impact the most?
Describe the purpose of settlement houses and give examples of specific ones.
Chapter 20: Political Realignments (1876-1901)
Due: 2/2/18
Explain the long lasting effects of the depression of 1890.
Explain what "disfranchising" was and how it was performed in the late 1800s.
Why was the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act passed and what did it do?
How did the Pendleton Act reform the civil services? How were they corrupt before this act?
Analyze the political cartoon on the top of page 461. Include a description and the meaning behind it.
Describe the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act and how it made the United States stand out from other industrial nations.
What was a populist? Explain their political platform.
List grievances of the farmers of the late 1800s.
How did farmers' alliances help farmers? Were there problems in the alliances? Explain.
Explain the creation of the People's/Populist Party.
What caused the Panic of 1893?
What was the significance of the Pullman Strike?
Analyze the jobs and treatment of women in the workforce during the late 1800s. Children.
Why was the election of 1896 known as the "battle of the standards"?
Describe the beliefs of William McKinley.
Describe the beliefs of William Jennings Bryan.
How did McKinley's presidency end?
Chapter 21: Toward Empire (1865-1902)
Explain the mystique behind the "Rough Riders".
How was the American expansion of the 1890s different from that of previous decades?
Define isolationism.
Compare and contrast expansion and imperialism.
What were arguments for American expansion?
What were arguments against American expansion?
What was "Seward's Folly"?
Why did the United States want Hawaii?
Describe the fight over the annexation of Hawaii.
How did the United States grow the 3rd largest navy in the world in the 1890s?
What is yellow journalism? Give an example.
What was the argument made by the Teller Amendment?
Why did the United States send the USS Maine to Cuba?
What happened to the USS Maine?
How did the United States respond to #14?
Describe hardships faced by African American soldiers during the Spanish American War.
Analyze the major events of the Spanish American War.
How did the war end?
What was the argument of the Anti-Imperialist League?
What were arguments for/against annexing the Philippines?
Explain Open Door policy.
Chapter 22: The Progressive Era (1895-1917)
Explain the motivation of muckrakers.
Give several examples of muckrakers and their work.
Explain how Industrialism changed at the turn of the century.
How did the Model T impact American culture?
Who created the Model T? How did he create so many so quickly?
What is a monopoly?
What is a trust?
What is an oligopoly?
Explain the significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
How did working conditions effect women and children during the Gilded Age?
Describe the Niagara Movement.
What led to the creation of the NAACP?
What was a "bird of passage".
Describe the work of the WTUL.
Describe the work of the IWW.
What were the largest industrial cities of the early 1900s.
Describe life in the big cities during the Gilded/Progressive Era.
Chapter 23: From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism (1900-1920)
Describe the platform of the Bull Moose/Progressive party.
Describe the motivations of the Progressives.
How did the Progressive Era respond to the Gilded Age.
What professions led the Progressive Era?
Define the social-justice movement.
List the arguments of the Purity Movement/Temperance.
Why were women the major voices of Temperance?
Explain the work of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Describe Republicans of the early 1900s.
Explain the reasoning behind busting trusts.
What were Theodore Roosevelt's views on trusts?
Why was Upton Sinclair upset about the American reaction to his book,
The Jungle?
What was the purpose of conservation of American lands? How was conservation achieved?
President Taft got stuck in the White House bathtub.
Describe Taft as a president.
In what way(s) did Taft alienate progressives?
Describe Roosevelt's New Nationalism program.
Describe Wilson's New Freedom program.
Explain the Clayton Antitrust Act.
What were some of the lasting effects of the Progressive Era.
Chapter 24: The Nation at War (1901-1920)
Explain the impact of the sinking of the
Titanic
.
What was the American reaction to the sinking of the
Lusitania
?
What was Woodrow Wilson's point of view on American intervention in WWI?
Describe the creation of the Panama Canal. Include who led the building and political implications.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary? What did it add to?
Explain dollar diplomacy. Give an example.
What caused WWI?
How did unrestricted submarine warfare work?
Why did Woodrow Wilson win a second term as US President?
Why did the United States join WWI?
What was the Selective Service Act? How does it effect you today?
Describe trench warfare.
What was the purpose of the CPI/Committee on Public Information?
Explain the purpose of the Espionage Act of 1917 and give an example of how it was implemented.
What was the Sedition Act? Was it legal?
Describe the labor force of America during WWI.
What was Wilson's 14 Point Plan? Which part was accepted?
Explain why the United States did not enter the League of Nations.
What were the effects of the Treaty of Versailles?
Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (1919-1928)
How did the assembly line tie into mas production?
Explain the significance of mass production to the 1920s economy.
How did marketing play into the 1920s economy?
What happened to agriculture in the 1920s?
Describe life in the cities during the 1920s.
How did the lives of women change in the 1920s? How did they stay the same?
Describe Jazz music, include its origins.
What was the Harlem Renaissance? Give examples of specific artists.
What was the Red Scare? Where did it get its name?
What was Prohibition? When did it pass and why?
Explain the rebirth of the KKK.
Explain how nativism effected immigration law in the 1920s.
Describe the Scopes trial.
Describe the Teapot Dome Scandal.
How did conservatism change in the 1920s?
What was the outcome of the 1928 election?
Chapter 26: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1929-1939)
Explain why the men on page 603 were pouring out milk if there was a depression.
What was the New Deal supposed to do? How?
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
What were the employment effects of the Great Depression?
What was the unemployment rate of the Great Depression?
Explain the purpose of the Bonus Army.
How did Roosevelt save the banks?
How did fireside chats aid FDR in gaining the people's trust?
What was the TVA? Who did it employ? What work was done?
What was the CCC? Who did it employ? What work was done?
What was the WPA? Who did it employ? What work was done?
What was the NRA? Who did it employ? What work was done?
What was the AAA? Who did it employ? What work was done?
What challenges were made against FDR's New Deal? By whom?
How does the Social Security Act continue to impact our lives today?
What did the Wagner Act protect?
What help did the New Deal offer to minorities?
What was the purpose of "packing the court"?
What was the result of the "court packing" bill attempt?
Did the New Deal work? Explain.
Chapter 27: America and the World (1921-1945)
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
What did the Pact say about American foreign policy following WWI?
Explain what isolationism is.
Explain why America was isolationist leading into WWII?
List the Axis Powers.
List the Allies.
What were the three neutrality acts? How did they keep America out of the war?
How did the Lend-Lease Act allow America to intervene in WWII?
What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What was the purpose of Operation Overlord? Did it succeed? Explain.
Why was WWII not over immediately following the fall of Berlin?
Explain the purpose of island hopping.
What work was done by A. Philip Randolph to improve the lives of African Americans?
What was the result of the Yalta Conference?
What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?
What led to the surrender of Japan?
Chapter 28: The Onset of the Cold War (1945-1960)
What was the result of the Potsdam Conference?
What was the Iron Curtain?
Explain the Baruch Plan.
How was containment supposed to protect America?
What was the Truman Doctrine? How did it pertain to containment?
How would the Marshall Plan help rebuild Europe and fight communism at the same time?
What was the purpose of NATO? What impact did/does NATO have on the United States? Is it positive or negative? Explain.
Explain the Berlin Blockade and explain how America responded to this issue.
Define the National Security Act.
What was the H-Bomb and how was it different from the Atomic Bomb?
Explain the causes of the Korean War.
Explain why America joined the Korean War.
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
Who was Joseph McCarthy and why was he able to rise to power in the government?
Explain the significance of McCarthyism to Miller's
The Crucible.
Chapter 29: Affluence and Anxiety (1945-1960)
Describe how WWII made housing options such as Levittown possible.
Explain the impact of the Baby Boom on the American population and subsequent effects of the aging of this generation.
What led to the prosperity and luxury lifestyles of the 1950s?
Describe life in the America suburbs.
Explain what a consumer society is and give examples of criticism against the growing consumer culture of the 1950s.
Who was Jack Kerouac and what impact did he have on literature and American pop culture?
What impact did Truman have on the Civil Rights movement?
Explain the significance of the Supreme Court Case
Brown v Board
. Which Supreme Court case did this one overturn?
What were the goals of the Civil Rights Movement?
Give examples of resistance to the Civil Rights Movement, both social and political.
Describe the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who was the leader of the SCLC?
What actions were taken by the SCLC?
What was SNCC?
Compare and contrast the work of the SCLC and SNCC.
Chapter 30: The Turbulent Sixties (1960-1968)
Describe the impact of television on american politics as seen in the Kennedy v. Nixon debates.
What was the New Frontier?
Describe Kennedy's take on the Cold War. Include his point of view on American involvement etc.
What was the initial purpose of the Baby of Pigs invasion?
List several reasons why the Bay of Pigs invasion failed.
How did the United States become aware of missiles in Cuba?
What was the result of America's discovery of Cuban missiles?
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis come to an end?
Explain how close the world was to nuclear disaster because of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Describe the freedom rides.
What reactions did the freedom rides receive? Why?
Describe the message of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. Where was it given?
What was the impact of the March on Washington?
Describe Lyndon B Johnson's impact on Civil Rights.
Who led a "war on poverty"?
What was the intention of Johnson's Great Society?
Was the Great Society successful? Explain your answer.
How did Johnson approach the Vietnam Conflict?
What event led to deeper involvement and the Vietnam War?
What was the scandal in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Describe the conditions of war in Vietnam.
What was SDS?
Explain the Black Power movement's goals and ideology.
Who was Cesar Chavez and how did he change America?
What was NOW and what was their goal?
Describe the early presidency of Nixon.
Describe the Tet Offensive and its impact on American views of the war.
Chapter 31: To a New Conservatism (1969-1988)
Describe the major characteristics of Conservatism.
Explain the purpose of the "Moral Majority".
What does detente mean? How did it apply to American relations with communist countries?
Describe the purpose of SALT.
Describe the events that occurred at Kent State as a result of Vietnam War protesting on the campus.
Explain the Watergate Scandal and Nixon's connection.
Identify OPEC and America's place within it.
How did family life change in the 1980s? How did it compare to the century before?
What was the argument for the ERA? Did it pass? Explain why or why not.
Identify the significance of Roe v Wade.
Describe the formation of the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activist Alliance.
Explain where the "don't ask, don't tell" originated.
Briefly describe the Ford Administration.
What were some of Carter's major focuses during his presidency?
Describe the impact of the Camp David Accords. What did they do for Carter's image?
Explain the Iranian hostage crisis and Carter's role.
Describe Reaganomics.
Outline the Iran-Contra affair/scandal.
What work did Reagan do to help end the Cold War?
Chapter 32: Into the Twenty-First Century (1989-2017)
How does the ADA (American with Disabilities Act) impact Americans today?
Describe the end of the Cold War.
What led to the Gulf War? Who was the major enemy of the United States?
Describe the progress from Operation Desert Shield to Operation Desert Storm.
Analyze the revival of immigration to the United States beginning in the 1990s.
Describe the debate over immigration that began in the 1990s and continues today. Be sure to state the points of view of both sides of the debate.
Describe the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
Outline changes in population by ethnicity in America from the 1990s to present.
What was the purpose of NAFTA? What was its impact?
Why was Clinton impeached. What was the result of his impeachment?
Describe the debate over the 2000 election, include the resulting Supreme Court case.
What led to the War on Terror?
Why did the United States enter Iraq?
Explain the Great Recession of the early 21st Century.
Outline Barrack Obama's major policy changes.
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