US History Midterm Exam 2024 Study Guide PDF

# US History Midterm Exam, 2024 ## Study Guide This is intended to be a guide to your studies and is not intended to be a list of everything exhaustive of everything that will be covered on the exam. Some material may not appear on the test and some material may appear on the test that is not expli...

# US History Midterm Exam, 2024 ## Study Guide This is intended to be a guide to your studies and is not intended to be a list of everything exhaustive of everything that will be covered on the exam. Some material may not appear on the test and some material may appear on the test that is not explicitly listed. It is intended to be a GUIDE to your studies. If you can answer all of these questions thoroughly and accurately, you will be well prepared for the test. In addition, you will be allowed to use one 3x5 notecard (provided to you in class by me) so long as it is HANDWRITTEN by YOU. If you answer all of these questions thoroughly, correctly, and in YOUR HANDWRITING, and turn them in on the day of the exam, you will get the curve on the exam. It is in no way required that you complete this- but I strongly encourage it. 1. What did the US look like in 1877 and how does this influence subsequent decades? 2. What is Industrialization and why is it important? 3. What factors allowed the US to industrialize? 4. What impacts (both positive and negative) did industrialization have on American society? 5. Describe the process of expanding our railroad system in the US and why it is important. 6. What is laissez faire economics and how did it impact development in the US? 7. Describe the changing nature of the role of the federal government in American society. 8. Who is John D. Rockefeller and what impact did he have on America? 9. Who is Andrew Carnegie and what impact did he have on America? 10. What are corporations and trusts? 11. What are labor unions, why do they form, what do they do, and why are they important? 12. What happened with the Homestead Strike and why is it important? 13. What happened with the Haymarket Square Riot and why is it important? 14. What happened with the Pullman Strike and why is it important? 15. Who were the major unions and the late 1800s and what made each union stand out in their own unique way? 16. What were the various push and pull factors with regard to immigration to the US? 17. Describe who the Old and New Immigrants were and why (and how) they were treated so differently. 18. What are Angel and Ellis Islands and how did they differ? 19. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act and what impact did it have on American society? 20. What was the National Origins Act and why was it designed in the manner it was? 21. What were Ethnic Cities and why did Americans not like them? 22. What is Americanization? What are the good and bad things about it? 23. What was the Gentlemen's Agreement? 24. What is nativism, why did it occur, and what are some examples of it? 25. What were tenement homes and who generally lived in them? 26. What were political machines and how did they control affairs in urban areas? 27. What were Settlement Houses and how did they help? 28. Why is the Hull House particularly important in US History? 29. What is imperialism and what are the various forms? 30. Describe the four main motives for American imperialism. 31. Explain the differences between a colony and protectorate. 32. Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan and what role did he play in American Imperialism? 33. What was the Treaty of Kanagawa and why is it important? 34. Explain the process of annexing Hawaii, including its consequences. 35. Describe the various causes of the Spanish American War. 36. Who were the Rough Riders and why are they important? 37. What important lessons did we learn from the Spanish American War that would be useful during WWI? 38. Explain the results of the Spanish-American War, with focus on Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. 39. What happened with the Boxer Rebellion and what role does it play in American Imperialism? 40. Describe the foreign policy for William Howard Taft. 41. Describe the foreign policy for Theodore Roosevelt. 42. Describe the foreign policy for Woodrow Wilson. 43. Explain how the Panama Canal came to be and why it was so significant. 44. What is Progressivism? 45. Who were the Progressives and what were their goals? 46. What was muckraking, who were some of the most influential muckrakers, and what role did they play in the Progressive era? 47. What are primaries, initiatives, referendums, and recalls and how do they fit into the picture of progressivism? 48. What are each of the following amendments and why are they important? How do they fit into the Progressive Era? Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 49. What happened in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and why is it significant? 50. What is the Meat Inspection Act and what impact does it have on American History? 51. What was the Food and Drug Administration created and what does it do? 52. What is conservation and why was it so important to Roosevelt? What impact does it have on American society today? 53. How did Roosevelt approach big business during his administration? 54. Describe the relationship between Roosevelt and Taft and how the 1908 election worked. 55. Explain the Taft presidency and how it led to the 1912 election. 56. Who were the candidates in the 1912 election and why were the Democrats almost guaranteed a win from the outset? 57. What is the Federal Reserve and what impact does it have on American society today? 58. What were the main successes and failures of the Progressive Era? 59. What were the MAIN causes of World War I and how did they each lead to the war? 60. What is the spark that started the war? 61. What was the US foreign policy at the beginning of the Great War and why did we adopt this policy? 62. What was the Lusitania and how does it impact American history? 63. Describe what the Committee on Public Information was and what role it played in World War I and American History. 64. What was the Zimmerman Note and how did it contribute to American involvement in World War I? 65. What brings America into World War I and how does President Wilson present this to America? 66. What was the Wartime Industries Board and why is it important? 67. What is the Great Migration and why is it important? 68. How does World War I come to an end? 69. Describe Woodrow Wilson's role in the peacemaking process. 70. Describe what happened at The Treaty of Versailles and how it helps set the foundation for WWII 71. Describe why the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles 72. Describe in detail, several ways in which the 1920s can be described as a time in which modernism and traditionalism clashed. 73. Who was Warren Harding and why was he important? 74. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal and what impact did it have on the Harding Presidency? 75. What impact did mass production, consumerism, and installment buying have on the economy? 76. How does this help foreshadow the Great Depression in the 1930s? 77. How did women change during the 1920s? 78. Explain the successes and failures of Prohibition. 79. What happened with the Scopes Monkey Trial and why is it important? 80. How, and why, did race relations change in the 1920s? 81. What is the "Red Scare" and why is it significant in American history? 82. Explain the story of Sacco and Vanzetti and why it is important 83. Was the USA truly isolationist in the 1920s? Why or why not? 84. Explain what the Washington Naval Conference was and why it is important. 85. Explain what the Dawes Plan was and why it is important. 86. Explain the Kellogg-Briand Pact and why it is important. 87. List and explain the causes of the Great Depression. 88. What was the Dust Bowl and what impact did it have on American history? 89. How did Herbert Hoover approach dealing with the Great Depression? 90. What was the Bonus Army incident and how did it impact Hoover's administration? 91. What were the three Rs in the New Deal Programs and how did they approach helping the Great Depression? 92. List several examples of New Deal Programs and explain how they impacted the Depression. 93. Explain how the Great Depression ended.