US History Fall Final Study Guide PDF

AMDG US HISTORY FALL FINAL STUDY GUIDE Your exam will consist of multiple choice questions where you will identify terms, as well as read and answer questions about excerpts, and analyze the meaning of political cartoons. Reconstruction: Reconstruction Amendments Black Codes L...

AMDG US HISTORY FALL FINAL STUDY GUIDE Your exam will consist of multiple choice questions where you will identify terms, as well as read and answer questions about excerpts, and analyze the meaning of political cartoons. Reconstruction: Reconstruction Amendments Black Codes Literacy Tests/Poll taxes Sharecropping Gilded Age: What was it? Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan (What did they do?) Vertical and Horizontal Integration How did Laissez-Faire policy contribute to the rise of monopolies? What was an example of a monopoly? Industrialism Tenements/Urbanization/Immigration Progressive Era: Political Machines/Political Corruption- who supported political machines (besides the politicians)? Boss Tweed What was the Progressive Era? What was the cause of the rise of the Progressive Era? What did progressives want the government to do? Muckrakers; Upton Sinclair and “The Jungle” The Pendelton Act The Meat Inspection Act Booker T Washington: Believed equality for African Americans could be achieved through economic independence (and civil rights issues could be addressed later): Established schools to teach skilled trades to African Americans. WEB DuBois: Believed that before African Americans could be truly independent, political and social rights needed to be achieved through changing the legal system. Believed in sending a “talented tenth” to higher education and this group could impact legal reforms. World War I: What was the policy of the US before entering the war? What events lead the US to eventually join the war? Who were the Allied/Central Powers? Committee of Public Information Propaganda (what are the techniques of propaganda) Ways Americans Supported the war effort (Enlist, conserve food, etc) Espionage/Sedition Acts- Criminalized criticizing the US government, the war, the military, or obstructing the draft. Harlem Hellfighters 14 Points o League of Nations o Article X- Part of League’s covenant that obligated members to defend nations being attacked