Semester I US History Final Exam Review Guide

For each item listed below, identify when it occurred, background information about the event, and why it was significant.

Ideas stressed by Enlightenment thinkers

Puritan work ethic

Power to govern comes from (see Locke)

Natural Rights/Social Contract

Checks and Balances

Reason for Bill of Rights

First Amendment rights

Monroe Doctrine

Social Gospel

Great Awakening

Manifest Destiny

1890-1920 immigration patterns

Ellis Island/Angel Island

Why & where did immigrants settle in US?

Reasons for Chinese immigration

Immigration restriction laws

“spark” to industrialization

Horizontal integration (Carnegie)

Robber Barons

Tammany Hall

Patronage

Urbanization patterns 1850-1900

Purpose of trusts and monopolies

Bessemer process

Social Darwinism

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Collective bargaining

Standardized time zones

Life in the big city

Child labor

Settlement houses

Goals of Progressive movement

Labor unions and tactics

Muckrakers/Progressive leaders (Tarbell, Sinclair, DuBois, Muir)

Assembly line/production techniques results

19^th Amendment

Results of Mexican-American War

T. Roosevelt’s foreign policies (Roosevelt Corollary, Big Stick, Gunboat Diplomacy)

Moral and Dollar Diplomacy

Panama Canal

Open Door Notes

Platt Amendment

US Imperialism-pros and cons

Immediate and MAIN causes of WWI

Reasons for US entry into WWI

Wilson’s 14 Points

Opposition to League of Nations

Allies vs. Central Powers

Reasons for Germany’s surrender in WWI

Immigration acts of the 1920s

Red Scare and Mitchell Palmer

KKK beliefs and actions

Sacco and Vanzetti

Factors influencing urban sprawl

Teapot Dome

Difficulties in enforcing the 18^th Amendment

Results of Prohibition

Earhart and Lindbergh

Tariffs of the 1920s

Impact of radio in the 1920s

Harlem Renaissance

Scopes Trial

Great Migration

Flappers

Causes of the Dust Bowl

Buying “on margin”

Hoover’s response to the Depression

Bonus Army

FDR/Bank Holiday

New Deal Programs (AAA, SSA, TVA, WPA, FLSA, NLRA, FERA, FDIC)

Dorothea Lange

Fireside Chats

Effects of the Great Depression

Supreme Court packing

Why the Great Depression ended?