Saturday, May 25, 2013

Final Exam Review


U.S. History Final Exam Review Sheet

Do not complete this study guide partially; specific details will help with studying for the Final Exam.

·      Abigail Adams
·      Homestead Act- 1862 and Revised
·      Andrew Jackson
o   Indian Policy
o   Bank of the U.S.
o   Nullification Crisis
·      Manifest Destiny
·      Underground Railroad
·      Gender Roles for Men and Women
o   Colonial Times
o   Early 19th Century
o   Late 19th Century, early 20th Century
o   Post WWII
·      Harriet Beecher Stowe
·      Mary Chestnut
·      Women’s Rights Movements
o   Seneca Falls Convention
o   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
o   Susan B. Anthony
o   Betty Friedan
o   Gloria Steinem
·      Denmarck Vessey
·      Eli Whitney
·      Reasons for Civil War
o   North
o   South
·      Monroe Doctrine
·      Bill of Rights
·      Immigration- results
·      Urbanization
·      Settlement Houses
·      Land Ordinance of 1785
·      Early 19th Century Industrial Revolution
·      Early 19th Century Transportation Revolution
·      Hamiltonian System
·      Bill of Rights- ALL TEN
·      Presidencies:
o   George Washington
o   John Adams
o   Thomas Jefferson
o   James Madison
o   James Monroe
o   Andrew Jackson
o   James K. Polk
o   Abraham Lincoln
o   Teddy Roosevelt
o   Woodrow Wilson
o   Herbert Hoover
o   Franklin D. Roosevelt
o   Ronald Regan
·      Thurgood Marshall
·      Martin Luther King Jr.
·      Conservative Republicans- Late 20th Century
·      Harlem Renaissance
·      Black Power Movement
·      1920s:
o   Jazz Music
o   Gender Roles
o   Prohibition
o   Entertainment
·      Great Migration of African Americans
·      Populist Party
·      Gold Bugs
·      Bi-Metalists
·      Silver Standard vs. Gold Standard
·      Nativism
·      Commercialism
·      Progressivism
·      Disenfranchisement
·      Glasnost
·      Perestroika
·      First Gulf War
·      Declaration of Independence
·      Women’s Suffrage Movement
·      “Social Gospel”
·      Fundamentalism
·      Manhattan Project- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
·      Spanish-American War
·      Yellow Journalism
·      World War I
o   Types of warfare
o   Reasons for the war
o   Reasons for U.S. involvement
o   Treaty of Versailles
o   League of Nations
o   U.S. Home Front Acts
·      Monroe Doctrine
·      Plessy v. Ferguson
·      Brown v. Board of Education
·      Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lived
·      Reconstruction
·      Great Depression
o   Reasons
o   New Deal Programs
·      National Aeronautics and Space Administration
·      Operation Paperclip
·      Sputnik
·      World War II
o   Reasons
o   U.S. Home Front
o   Holocaust
o   Axis Powers
o   NATO
o   Marshall Plan
·      Truman Doctrine- Policy of Containment
·      Roe v. Wade
·      University of California v. Bakke
·      Marbury v. Madison
·      Watergate
·      Stonewall Rebellion
·      “Countercultures”
·      Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
·      Platt Amendment
·      Teller Amendment
·      SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
·      Gilded Age
·      Andrew Carnegie- Gospel of Wealth
·      Trusts
·      Monopolies
·      James Weaver
·      Labor Movement- Late 19th Century
·      Vanderbilt
   Patriot Act
·      Robber Barons
·      Captains of Industry
·      Civil War
o   Reasons
o   Generals
o   Results

Unit 14- Current Events 2000-2013



Test Review- The Multiple Choice Section will be given as a take home on  the essay portion will be completed in class.

Things to Know:

  • Reagan's attempt to make the Supreme Court Conservative through appointments
  • Reagan and business deregulation
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • Family and Medical Leave Act
  • NAFTA
  • Waco
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • Election of 2000
  • War in Afghanistan
  • Operation: Desert Storm
  • Conservative opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Causes of the Economic Recession in 2007
  • The Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995
  • September 11, 2001 attacks
  • Presidential Election of 2008
  • Reaganomics
  • Glasnost
  • Perestroika
  • Kuwait invasion
  • The arguments over the Patriot Act
  • Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Abu Ghraib Prison
Free Response: Choose 1:


1.            Were President Clinton’s weaknesses in Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky scandal largely a political effort to highlight his personal failings, or did the charges reflect genuine constitutional issues?
2.            “Unlike William Clinton whose presidency was tarnished by domestic issues, but redeemed by a restrained foreign policy, George W. Bush’s presidency was fortified by domestic issues, but discredited by an aggressive foreign policy.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to the years 1992-2008.
3.            How do you think history will portray George W. Bush’s legacy?
                  Consider his:
                  Foreign policies
                  War in Iraq
                  Domestic policies