8.3/8.4/9.1- Immigrants and Urbanization/Life at the Turn of the 20th Century/ Modern Presidencies- 1877-1921

Test



Review for the Test on 9.1 3/31/13 [ALSO STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INFORMATION ON 10.1- THE TEST WILL BE A CONGLOMERATION OF THESE 2 UNITS]

College Prep:

Federal Trade Commission

Federal Reserve System

Woodrow Wilson

Upton Sinclair

Progressivism

Susan B. Anthony

Florence Kelley

conservation

William H. Taft

Square Deal

yellow journalism

Roosevelt Corollary

Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case

Nativism

Causes of the Spanish-American War

Essay: What were the most important of Wilson's progressive reforms? Was Wilson actually a more effective progressive than Theodore Roosevelt? Why or why not?

Think About:

·       Identify New Nationalism and New Freedom

·       Compare the 2 Programs

·       Rank the effectiveness of each

HONORS:

Causes of the Spanish-American War

Roosevelt Corollary/Monroe Doctrine

Teller Amendment

Adamson Act

Federal Trade Commission Act

Free Response Question: [You will choose 2 out of 3 questions and answer in essay format [however it does not have to be 5 paragraphs for each, just answer the question]

1. In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What solutions did they try to use? Be specific.

2. List the five most outstanding achievements of Roosevelt's presidency. Rank these five according to your assessment of their importance. Justify your ranking.

3. What were the most important of Wilson's progressive reforms? Was Wilson actually a more effective progressive than Theodore Roosevelt? Why or why not?

In order to answer these FRQ's you will need to know:

Progressivism

Roosevelt's Presidency

New Nationalism v. New Freedom

***Please review the handouts I have provided you, your class discussions and notes from the blog***

8.2- A New Industrial Age- 1877-1900

Vocab Quiz Terms:

Bessemer Process
Collective Bargaining
Horizontal Consolidation
Holding Company
Monopoly
Scabs
Social Darwinism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Socialism
Trust
Vertical Intergration

Test Review:

Key Terms to Identify

• Edwin L. Drake
• Eugene V. Debs
• Christopher Sholes
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Alva Edison
• Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
• George M. Pullman
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie
• Harry Bessemer
• Electricity
• Pullman, Illinois
• Social Darwinism
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Haymarket Square
• Scabs
• Strikebreakers

Essay:

Do you think that the actions of the industrialists were more beneficial to the United States than they were harmful? Explain your opinion.

Think About:

·       Business growth and its effect on the United States

·       The effects of industry on the individual

·       The effects of consolidation on the economy

HONORS:

•       be able to identify the major tycoons of the Gilded Age as well as important business practices and companies they controlled.
•        The "Gospel of Wealth"
•        understand the role of the industrialization on different socio-economic groups

•        Identify the Role of the Federal Government and its legislative actions towards industrialization and capitalists [including Supreme Court Cases and Key Legislation]
•       The Difference between captains of Industry and Robber Barons

Unit 8.1- Changes on the Western Frontier 1877-1900

This whole Unit which is broken up into 4 chapter and 2 supplemental guides will assist you in the researching of the English and U.S. History Cross Curricular Research Paper. This Unit coincides with information presented in the Jungle.

Vocabulary Terms for the Vocab Quiz:

Assimilation

Central Pacific

Exodusters

George Armstrong Custer

Goals of the Populist Party

Homestead Act

Morrill Land Acts

Populism

Sitting Bull

The Grange

Union Pacific

Test Review-

• Homestead Act
• Populist Party
• Exodusters
• Collapse of Populism
• Dawes Act
• The Grange
• Soddy
• Oliver Hudson Kelley
• Assimilation
• Vaquero
• Great Plains
• Exoduster
• Battle of Wounded Knee
• William Jennings Bryan
• Dawes Act
• George A. Custer
• Chisolm Trail
• Morill Act

Essay: What explains the rise of the Populist Party in the 1890s? Were the Populists reflecting only farmers' discontent, or did they express a deeper disaffection with the weaknesses of the two-party system?

ADDITIONAL ESSAY FOR HONORS CLASS:

Essay: [HONORS]: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select and discuss at least three majors reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. 

Unit 7.2 Reconstruction

7.2 reconstruction and its effects 1865 1877 from jtoma84

Vocabulary to define:

1. Reconstruction:
2. Radical Republicans:
3. Thaddeus Stevens:
4. Wade-Davis Bill:
5. Freedmen's Bureau: 
6. Black Codes:
7. Fourteenth Amendment:
8. Impeach:
9. Fifteenth Amendment:
10. Scalawag:
11. Carpetbagger:
12. Hiram Revels:
13. Sharecropping:
14. Tenant Farming:
15. Ku Klux Klan:
16. Panic of 1873:
17. Redemption:
18. Rutherford B. Hayes:
19. Samuel J. Tilden:
20. Compromise of 1877:
21. Home Rule:
22. Amnesty Act:
23. Disenfranchise




Test Review

• Homestead Act 1862- and what it provided
• Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction- 10% Plan
• Freedmen's Bureau and what it provided
• Results of the presidential election of 1876
• Wade Davis Bill
• the Conflicts between President Johnson and Republicans in Congress
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• The differences of Reconstruction Plans between Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress
• Goals of the KKK
• Corruption in the Grant administration
• Why Northern attitudes toward Reconstruction change in the 1870s
• Was Johnson a victim of politics or an ineffective leader
• Johnson's Reconstruction plans
• Johnson's Impeachment: Reasons Why, the Trial and the Effect
• Examine President Johnson political cartoons from the Slideshow above

U.S. Midterm Review

Key Historical Figures: [Who were they, what are they known for, if they were a President- what policies did they enact]

Andrew Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eli Whitney
Alexander Hamilton [+ his economic plan]
Thomas Jefferson
James K. Polk
James Madison
John Locke
Varina Davis
Jefferson Davis
George Washington
John Adams
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Stephan Webster
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Winfield Scott
James Monroe


Key Events: [What happened, what caused them, what was the effect of them]

Manifest Destiny
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Civil War

• [+ Advantages of the N. & S.]
• Military Strategies
• Generals
• Major Battles
• Effects of the war on:
• Political
• Economic
• Technologic
• Society

Ratification of the Constitution
Industrial Revolution
Urbanization
Immigration
Women

• in colonial America, 
• post-revolution, 
• during the 2nd Great Awakening, 
• Antebellum Period 
• the Civil War period

Mexican-American War
Moving the capital to Washington D.C.
American Revolution
Slavery

• from indentured servitude to slavery
• post-Revolution
• Antebellum Period
• Civil War

NYC Draft Riots
Order of State Secession


Key Vocabulary: [Define/Identify]

Manifest Destiny
Underground Railroad
Emancipation Proclamation [we discussed this at length, know everything!]
Slave Codes
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable Parts
The First Congress
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Disenfranchisement
Canals
The Trail of Tears
The Monroe Doctrine
the 1st Great Awakening
the 2nd Great Awakening
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The XYZ Affair
Land Ordinance of 1785
Bicameral
NJ Plan
VA Plan
Articles of Confederation

• Strengths
• Weaknesses

Checks & Balances
Mercantilism

The Battle of Saratoga
The Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Ft. Sumter
Anaconda Plan
Nullification Crisis
Missouri Compromise- 1820
Battle of the Antietam
Popular Sovereignty
The Gadsden Purchase
California Gold Rush
Wilmot Proviso



Key Laws: [Constitution/Amendments/Cases]

Worcester v. Georgia
Marbury v. Madison

Each section will have 50 multiple choice and 1 DBQ - You will have 120 mins. for the Exam

Honors and College Prep will have different tests

Remember: Have this Review completed by Wed. 1/14/2014 so we can review in class.

The review will be organized by you! You will decide how the review goes based off of your questions that you need help and clarification on.

The Union in Peril & The Civil War [1848-1865]

Test Review

Important Concepts:

• Underground Railroad
• Slave Codes
• Emancipation
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Southern expectations of the War [from beginning to end]
• Compromise of 1850
• Advantages of both sides
• President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation:
• as a military strategy
• personal feelings behind it
• what it did
• how it was used
• Ft. Sumter-
• Davis' dilemma
• Lincoln's dilemma
• what each side did
• Anaconda Plan
• Lincoln's War Strategies
• Davis' War Strategies
• NYC Draft Riots
• Order of Secession [states that seceded and when]
• Border states and their roles
• Grant's approach to Lee and how he fought
• Appomattox Court House
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Shiloh
• Gettysburg Battle
• Gettysburg Address
• Varina Davis

Consequences of the U.S. Civil War on:

Political

Economic

Technological

Social

Free Response Questions [Choose 1]:

1.     Historians usually rank the “Great Emancipator”, Abraham Lincoln, as the “greatest” of American presidents. Do you agree? Why or why not?

1. a Proper Thesis is needed to answer this question
2. You can not just say "Lincoln is the greatest. I agree"; you must provide evidence and historical accuracy to prove your thesis
3. Utilize at least 3 specific examples of Lincoln's policies ranging from the military to social issues and his legal stances.
4. Have a proper conclusion.
5. NO FIRST PERSON

2.     Do you think that President Lincoln was justified in his violations of ordinary civil liberties during the Civil War? Why or why not?

1. Again, this should be more than "I agree". You need to back up your thesis, whatever it may be.
2. Cite specific historical examples to prove your point. This is more than an opinion essay, you must provide a thorough analysis of what Lincoln did and explain why.
3. Thesis, Conclusion and proper grammar are all necessary.
4. NO First person!
5. All essays should be 5 paragraphs:

•      First Paragraph: Introduction + Thesis
•      Second Paragraph: 1rst Body Paragraph: Issue 1 or Evidence 1 from your Thesis
•      Third Paragraph: 2nd Body Paragraph: Issue 2, or Evidence 2 from your Thesis
•      Fourth Paragraph: 3rd Body Paragraph: Issue 3, or Evidence 3 from your Thesis
•      Fifth Paragraph: Conclusion [DO NOT WRITE "IN CONCLUSION" or a derivative of  this]; restate [restate means to put into other words, don't just copy your thesis] the Thesis.

Utilize your Thesis as a checklist for the remainder of your paper or the main ideas of the body paragraphs. Make an outline- this will help you stay on task, become more focused and have a cohesive paper.

If need be refer back to the blog entry on DBQ writing which discusses Thesis.

Test will be 15 multiple choice, 1 short answer [worth 25 pts] and the Free Response [worth 30 points]

Good luck, & study!!

Additionally- this is a good online quiz to review the material from the Civil War, it is from the Pearson American History study site.

 http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_lahss_0/59/15274/3910282.cw/-/3910283/index.html

An Era of Growth and Disunion 1825-1827

Test Review:
15 multiple choice
1 short answer [around 2-3 paragraphs with historical background]
1 choice of a free response

• Know everything there is to know about Manifest Destiny
• Industrialization in the 19th century
• Joseph Smith
• "Fifty-For Forty or Fight"
• The Battle of San Jacinta
• Gadsden Purchase
• Charles Goodyear
• Empresarios
• Gold Rush
• President Polk and the Mexican War
• Capitalism
• What led to the rise of capitalism
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Treaty of Velasco
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• The Alamo
• American Culture of the 19th Century-
• Women's Rights
• Abolitionists
• Immigrants
• Mexicans
• Chinese
• Racial issues
• Slavery in the South
• Racism in the North
• Schools
• Segregation

Free Response Questions:

Write your definition of imperialism. Use this definition to argue that the United States was or was not an imperialistic in the 1840s

To answer this you must:

1. Define imperialism
2. Provide specific examples of imperialism in the United States
3. Understand Mexican, Native American history and treatment
4. How new land was acquired from the Louisiana Purchase to the Gadsden Purchase

Explain how Manifest Destiny intensified ethnic and cultural conflicts and complicated the forging of a national identity.

To answer this you must:

1. Define Manifest Destiny
2. Include the issues faced by different nationalities [choose two; must be detailed]
1. Chinese
2. Native Americans
3. Irish
4. African Americans
3. Explain the national identity of the US in the mid 1800s

Remember-

Essay must have:

1. 5 paragraphs 
2. A proper thesis with the main ideas outlined in it
3. Indentation
4. Proper grammar
5. a conclusion that does not state in conclusion
6. the conclusion should restate the thesis
7. historical detail and background knowledge
8. NO FIRST PERSON