Define 10 of the major themes or terms from EACH Review Section that you are unfamiliar with, or uncertain about exactly what they are. Minimum 70 terms/themes.
Complete the Quiz at the end of each review section (Chapters 11-13) and be prepared to turn it in the day after you have read that review section.
Write ONE of the following FRQs. Additional can be written for Extra Credit.
a. Analyze the social, political, and economic forces of the 1840s and early 1850s that led to the emergence of the Republican Party.
b. Use TWO of the following categories to analyze the ways in which African Americans created a distinctive culture in slavery.
Family
Music
Oral traditions
Religions
c . To what extent did the debates about the Mexican War and its aftermath reflect the sectional interests of New Englanders, westerners, and southerners in the period from 1845 to 1855?
d. Explain why and how the role of the federal government changed as a result of the Civil War with respect to TWO of the following during the period 1861-1877:
Race Relations
Economic Development
Westward Expansion
4. Write one DBQ. The choices are below. Additional DBQs can be written for Extra Credit.
Principles that caused territorial expansion between 1815 and 1860.
Trace sectionalism from 1810-1850 through the careers of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster.
Manifest Destiny and the road to war.
Impact of Manifest Destiny on both foreign affairs and domestic politics.
Why was Oregon annexed peacefully, but not Texas?
TERMS TO KNOW:
Whigs
Manifest Destiny
Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
Santa Ana
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
Gold Rush
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hinton R. Helper
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Know-Nothings
Commodore Matthew Perry 1853
54° 40’ Or Fight!
Mexican War (1846-1848)
John C. Fremont
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
Wilmot Proviso
Free Soilers
Gadsden Purchase 1853
Popular sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas”
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry, VA
Sumner-Brooks
Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858
A House Divided
Freeport Doctrine
Crittenden Compromise 1860
#3 Civil War & Reconstruction (Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes)
MAJOR THEMES:
Slavery from the viewpoint of the slave, the slaveholder, and the non-slaveholding white Southerner.
The issue of slavery in the territories and slavery as a threat to white Northern labor.
Compare the black struggle to achieve freedom with the abolitionist struggle to free slaves.
African American experience in the North: 1790-1860. Major developments between 1865 and 1912.
The Civil War began with the Mexican War!?
Northerners objected not to slaves but to the political and economic power and influence slavery gave the slaveholder in the national government.
Event, person, or place as a symbol of North-South division, such as Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, or the Crittenden Compromise.
North-South economic differences before the Civil War that continued unresolved after it.
The 1850s-->a decade of political sectionalism and economic nationalism.
Role of the Supreme Court in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Breakdown of both the Whig and Democratic parties in the 1850s and rise of the third party system.
States’ rights from 1790-1860 for all three sections.
Civil War triumph of American democracy over European aristocracy (“slaveocracy”).
When did the Civil War become inevitable and why?
What causes of the Civil War were resolved by the Civil War and Reconstruction?
The issues of the Civil War were similar to those of the American Revolution.
Accomplishments and failures of Reconstruction. Compare the social and political gains made by Blacks during Reconstruction with those during the second Reconstruction, and during the 1950s and 1960s.
Economic and political consequences of the closing of the frontier.
Theories of Frederick Jackson Turner--> The “myth” of the frontier in American culture and how did it influence American character?
Evolution of federal land policy toward Indians to 1924.
Farmers versus the railroads and industry.
TERMS TO KNOW:
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Frederick Jackson Turner
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph
Helen Hunt Jackson
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Grandfather clause
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. DuBois
Granger Laws
Munn v. Illinois (1876)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee, SD
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Cases of 1883
Interstate Commerce Act (1886)
National Alliance
Populism
Omaha Platform
Hard money vs. Soft money
#5 Princeton Review Chapter 12 - Big Business, Big Labor, & Big Cities (Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley)
MAJOR THEMES:
Compare and contrast the Democratic and Republican Parties: base of support, policies, successes, etc.
Changes in the economy from 1865-1900 in transportation, agriculture, labor force, and industry.
Rise of corporations, trusts, pools, and holding companies.
Factors that promoted industrialization.
Trace shifting Supreme Court decisions in regard to the regulation of railroads and industry.
This period as one of governmental intervention in the economy, NOT of laissez-faire.
The role and significance of technological innovations.
The 1890s as a decade of economic, political, and social crises.
Characteristics of different labor unions --> NLU, Knights of Labor, AFL, ARU—differences, successes, failures, leaders, reasons for directions they took.
Compare and contrast the Haymarket Square riot, the Homestead strike, and the Pullman strike.
Attitude of government, state and federal, toward labor unions to 1914.
Gilded Age as an era of “conspicuous consumption” [Thorstein Veblen’s phrase].
Reformers’ attempts to address problems of poverty, housing, and health.
Municipal governments --> why were they so bad? Why so frustrating to reformers?
Women’s Movement: 1848-1920.
Churches’ attack on social and economic problems.
Social Gospel as a religious movement.
Darwinism and church leaders.
Reactions to immigration: pre-Civil War versus Civil War to 1920s.
Urbanization reflected in art and literature.
Compare and contrast the treatment of immigrants, Blacks, and Indians during this post-Civil War era.
Southern whites reestablished political control after Reconstruction and modernized the Southern economy and rise of Jim Crow laws.
Booker T. Washington vs. W. E. B. DuBois.
Problems facing farmers. Populism urged political solutions to economic problems.
Why did Populism fail, or did it?
Compare and contrast the Grange, the Farmers’ Alliance, and Populism.
TERMS TO KNOW:
Gilded Age
Robber Barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
U. S. v. E. C. Knight 1890
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Thomas Edison
Horatio Alger
Yellow-dog contract
Open shop vs. Closed shop
Railroad Strike of 1877
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Riot 1886
AFL
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike 1892
Pullman Strike 1894
Eugene Debs
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Henry George
Jacob Riis
Edward Bellamy
Settlement Movement
Jane Addams
Social Gospel
Carry Nation
Louis Sullivan
Chicago School of Architecture
William Lloyd Wright
“Melting Pot” theory
Pendleton Act 1885
Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890
Panic of 1893
Coxey’s Army
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold”
#6 America Imperialism (McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson)
MAJOR THEMES:
Organize U. S. foreign policy from 1870-1920 by: (1) geographic region-->Far East, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe; (2) American motives-->economic, moral, Monroe Doctrine, balance of power among European nations, dominance in the Caribbean; (3) influence of domestic policies on foreign policy.
Imperialism: characteristics, sources, nature, causes, impact, results, compared to European imperialism.
Link-->Reconstruction, Populism, and Imperialism.
Compare and contrast the old and the new Manifest Destiny.
U. S. policy toward Mexico and Cuba, 1890s-1930s.
Roosevelt’s foreign policy. vs. Wilson’s foreign policy.
TERMS TO KNOW:
Treaty of Kanagawa
“Seward’s Folly”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jingoism
Yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Spanish-American War (1898)
De Lome Letter
Rough Riders
Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!
Teller Amendment
Queen Liliuokalani
Emilio Aguinaldo
“White Man’s Burden”
Anti-Imperialist League
Insular cases
Platt Amendment
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
“Big Stick” policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
Gentleman’s Agreement
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
Jones Act 1916
“Moral Diplomacy”
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
#7 Princeton Review Chapter 13 - America Becomes A Global Power: 1900-1920s
MAJOR THEMES:
Causes of U. S. entry into World War I and its attempts to remain neutral.
Defeat of the Versailles Treaty: immediate and long-term consequences.
War and the threat of war united and divided Americans in the 1898-1920s period.
Compare and contrast the Populist and Progressive movements.
Goals of Progressivism: successes, failures.
Progressivism as the “have-nots” vs. the “haves”: role of labor unions, immigrants, Blacks, women, and urban poor.
Corporations and unions both wanted governmental protection but not governmental regulation.
Trace the regulation of big business and court interpretations from the Interstate Commerce Act to U. S. v. U. S. Steel Corp. in 1920.
Supreme Court interpretations and changing economic and social conditions, 1890-1920.
Significant elections: 1900, 1912, 1920.
Compare and contrast the programs and administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft: banking, railroads, trusts, tariffs, etc.
World War I both helped and hurt Blacks and labor.
Compare the domestic impact of the First and Second World Wars.
TERMS TO KNOW:
Gentleman’s Agreement
Great White Fleet
Muckrakers
Jacob Riis [How the Other Half Lives]
Thorstein Veblen [The Theory of the Leisure Class]
Lincoln Steffens [The Shame of the Cities]
Ida Tarbell [History of Standard Oil Co.]
John Dewey [The School and Society]
Margaret Sanger
Progressive Amendments: 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire
Anti-Saloon League
Square Deal
Newlands Reclamation Act 1902
Hepburn Act 1906
“Trustbuster”
Meat Inspection Act / Upton Sinclair [The Jungle]
Pure Food and Drug Act
Panic of 1907
Wisconsin, Bob LaFollette
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Bull Moose Party / Roosevelt’s Osawatomie, KS speech