Semester Test Review

U.S. History

Time:

The test will consist of 20 questions per chapter for the six chapters we covered.  Chapters 4,5,6,7,10,11 are on the test.  Questions will be derived from notes, outlines, any outside worksheets or assignments, and reading.  The following topics, places, names, things may be on the test.

Civil War

-Lincoln and reaction to opposition to war both in the North and in the South

-Clara Barton

-Copperheads

-Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

-North’s advantages/disadvantages

-South’s advantages/disadvantages

-Ulysses S. Grant and region he attacked in 1864

-Why Lincoln was re-elected in 1864

-John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln’s assassination

-Gettysburg Address

-soldiers and how most of them died

-idea of “States Rights”

-canister

-South plan for winning the war

-North plan for winning the war

-Emancipation Proclamation

-What legal argument gave Union armies the right to free captured southern slaves

-13^th, 14^th, 15^th, amendments (Civil War amendments)

-Battle of Monitor and Merrimac and significance

-General Sherman and capture of Atlanta

-Lee’s surrender to Grant-where, when

-Battle of Shiloh and its significance

-Battle of Gettysburg-Why Lee marched there

Reconstruction

Sharecroppers

Tenant farmers

Effect of “cash crops” like Cotton on South

Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

“Forty acres and a mule”

Growth of southern industries led to the growth of ______

Klu Klux Klan

North’s attempt to rebuild the South by what?

Freedmen’s Bureau

Carpetbaggers-

Effect of Reconstruction on the White House

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Black Codes

Expansion of American Industry

Vertical consolidation

Horizontal consolidation

Haymarket Riot

Homestead Riot

Pullman Riot

Thomas Edison and some of his inventions

Transcontinental railroad and effects

Social Darwinism

Patents

Employers and reactions to unions

Robber barons

Captains of industry

Philanthropists

Bessemer process

Edwin Drake and Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company

Samuel Morse

Factory life in late 1800’s

Socialism

Oligopoly

Monopoly

“closed shop”

Division of Labor

Industrial growth in the U.S. led to the concentration of ________ in _________

Andrew Carnegie

Rockefeller

Looking to the West

Soddie

Cattle drives

Why did settlers feel they had the right to Western Lands

Populist party

Homestead Act of 1862

Morrill Land Grant Act

Large mining outfits compared to small mining outfits

Who did Americans learn cattle ranching techniques from?

Effect of cattle boom and ranching

Settlers and struggles on the frontier

Crop prices in the lat 1800’s

Placer mining

Battle of Little Big Horn

Wounded Knee

1^st National Park

Gold standard

Grange

Inflation

Deflation

Assimilation

Becoming a World Power

Taft and foreign policy

Roosevelt and foreign policy

Wilson and foreign policy

Panama Canal

Imperialism

Arbitration

Controversy in construction of Panama Canal

British war hero Sir Baden-Powell founded what movement and what was it

Banana republic

Spanish-American War-why and results

Anti-imperialists

Why we annexed Hawaii

Jingoism

Social Darwinists believed expansionism was necessary why?

Remember the Maine

China and Open Door Policy

Yellow journalism

Progressive Reform Era

Progressivism

Clayton Antitrust Act

Results of initiative and referendum

Sherman Anti-trust act

Clayton Anti-trust act

Standard Oil, Northern Securities Company, American tobacco company were in violation of what

Why were some progressives also Socialists?

Effects of World War I on suffrage movement

Suffrage movement

City government during progressive era

Federal Reserve System

Theodore Roosevelt and environment

Muckrakers

President Wilson supported reforms to what

NAWSA

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

1912 Presidential Election

Bull Moose Party

Prohibition

Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Civil disobedience

Social Welfare programs