EOC Study Guide

The EOC assessment will be given in one 160-minute session with a 10-minute break after
the first 80 minutes.
A maximum of 60 multiple-choice questions
Six to ten items are experimental and not included in student scores
Examples of U.S. History Activities across Cognitive Complexity Levels
Low Complexity
Moderate Complexity
High Complexity
Identify or recall
Apply or infer cause and
Solve or predict the
common historical
effect relationships.
outcome of a
events, actions,
problem.
personalities, or
concepts.
Use a chart, table,
Identify outcomes of
Generalize or draw
diagram, graph or
particular cause and
conclusions when
image to recall or
effect relationships.
presented with
recognize
historical information.
information.
Identify
Identify the significance
Provide justification
characteristics of a
of historical events,
for events, actions, or
particular group,
actions, personalities,
issue, in history.
place or event.
or concepts.
Categorize historical
Predict a long-term
people, places, events, or
result, outcome, or
concepts.
change within society.
Determine the
Analyze how changes
relationship between
have influenced
historical events,
people or institutions.
actions, personalities,
or concepts.
Explain historical
Recognize and explain
problems, patterns, or
historical
issues.
misconceptions.
Identify similarities
Analyze similarities
and differences.
and differences.
20%-30%
45%-65%
15%-25%

Civil War and Reconstruction

1. Causes and Consequences:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.

Slavery
States rights (what were they and why is this important?)
Territorial claims (what were the claims? How did this effect politics?)
Abolitionist movement (who was involved?)
Regional differences (what were they? Important people?)
Reconstruction
i. View points
ii. Plans (presidential and congressional)
iii. End
g. Civil War Amendments
2. Influence of significant people or groups on ReconstructionWho they were and what
they did/known for:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
William T. Sherman
Buffalo Soldiers
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth

3. Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction Era
(what happened and why is this topic important):
a. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
b. Southern whites
c. Blacks
d. Black legislators
e. White extremist organizations
i. KKK
ii. Knights of the White Camellia
iii. The White League
iv. Red Shirts
v. Pale Faces
4. Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution:
a. Abolition of slavery
b. Citizenship
c. Suffrage
d. Equal Protection
5. Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other
racial/ethnic minority groups.
6. Compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze
how the sharecropping system and debt peonage as practiced in the United States.
7. Review the Native American experience:
a. Westward expansion (what was it, how did it happen, when did it happen)
b. Reservation system (what did this mean? How did it affect tribes/culture?)
c. The Dawes Act

d. Wounded Knee Massacre (what happened? Why did it happen? Who was
involved?)
e. Sand Creek Massacre (what happened? Why did it happen? Who was
involved?)
f. Battle of the Little Big Horn (what happened? Why did it happen? Who was
involved?)
g. Indian Schools (what were they? What did they do?)
h. Government involvement in the killing of the buffalo

Industrial Revolution
1. Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers responses to
these changes in the mid to late 1800s.
a. Creation of agricultural colleges
b. Morrill Land Grant Act (what was it and what did it do?)
c. Gold standard and Bimetallism (what this was, who was involved, and what
happened)
d. Creation of the Populist Party (important people and policies)
2. Examine the causes of the second Industrial Revolution
a. Social causes
b. Economic causes
c. Political causes
3. Compare the first and second Industrial Revolution in the United States
a. Trade
b. New industries
4. Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication and
business practices affected the US economy (be sure to include people and what they
didrobber baron or captain of industry)
a. Railroads (how did they start, what deals were made, labor used)
b. Telegraph
c. Holding companies
d. Trusts
e. Corporation
f. Contributions to westward expansion
g. Expansion of trade an development of new industries (who, how, what, when,
where, why?)
h. Integration (define)
i. Vertical (define and provide an example)
j. Horizontal (define and provide am example)
5. Significant inventorswho they were and what they invented
a. Lewis Howard Latimer
b. Jan E. Matzeliger
c. Sarah E. Goode
d. Granville T. Woods
e. Alexander Graham Bell
f. Thomas Edison
g. George Pullman
h. Orville and Wilbur Wright
i. Elijah McCoy
j. Garrett Morgan
k. Madame C.J. Walker
l. George Westinghouse
6. Analyze the changes that occurred as the United States shifted from an agrarian to
industrial society.
a. Social Darwinism (what was it? What did it do?)
b. Laissez-faire (what was it? Who used it? What happened with this?)
c. Government regulations of food and drugs (include the act, when it was
passed, the role of Upton Sinclair.)
d. Migration to cities
e. Urbanization (what it was, what it did, how it helped the US shift to an
industrial nation)
f. Changes to family structure (what were they? Why were these changes
significant?)
g. Ellis Island (who came here)

h. Angel Island (who came here)

i. Push-pull factors for immigration
7. Compare ad contrast the experience of European immigrants in the east to that of
Asian immigrants in the west (you may need to define each first)
a. Chinese Exclusion Act
b. Gentlemens Agreement with Japan
c. Nativism
d. Integration of immigrants into society
e. Old vs. New immigrants
f. Immigration Act of 1924
8. Examine the importance of social change and reform in the late 19 th and early 20th
centuries (be sure to include important people)
a. Class system (roles and movement)
b. Migration
c. Social Gospel (what was it and why was it important?)
d. Settlement Houses (what were they and why were they important?)
9. Examine the causes and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19 th and
20th centuries.
a. Unions
b. Knights of Labor (Founder? What it did? Members?)
c. American Federation of Labor (Founder? What it did? Members?)
d. Socialist Party (Founder? What it did? Members?)
e. Labor Laws (what were they? When were they implemented? Why/how where
they implemented?)
10. Review the different economic and philosophic ideologies during the late 19 th and
early 20th centuries (be able to define and apply to a situation).
a. Market Economy
b. Mixed Economy
c. Planed Economy
d. Capitalism
e. Socialism
f. Communism
g. Anarchy
11. Analyze the impact of political machines in the United States cities in the late 19 th
and early 20th centuries.
a. Boss Tweed (who was he? What did he do?)
b. Tammany Hall (what was it? Where was it located? Why is it significant?)
c. George Washington Plunkitt (who was he? What did he do?)
d. Washington Gladden (who was he? What did he do?)
e. Thomas Nast (who was he? What did he do?)
12. Compare how different nongovernmental organizations and progressives worked to
shape public policy, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in
American life.
a. NAACP (When established? What did it do? Key people?)
b. YMCA (When established? What did it do? Key people?)
c. Womans Christian Union (When established? What did it do? Key people?)
d. National Womens Suffrage Association (When established? What did it do?
Key people?)
e. National Womens Party (When established? What did it do? Key people?)
f. Robert Lafollette (who was he? What did he do?)
g. Florence Kelley (who was she? What did she do?)
h. Ida M. Tarbell (who was she? What did she do?)
i. Eugene Debs (who was he? What did he do?)

j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.

Carrie Chapman Catt (who was she? What did she do?)
Alice Paul (who was she? What did she do?)
Theodore Roosevelt (who was he? What did he do?)
Woodrow Wilson (who was he? What did he do?)
Upton Sinclair (who was he? What did he do?)
Booker T. Washington (who was he? What did he do?)
W.E.B. DuBois (who was he? What did he do?)
Gifford Pinchot (who was he? What did he do?)
William Jennings Bryan (who was he? What did he do)

13. Key people and events in Florida: Who were they and what did they do?
a. Henry Flagler
b. Florida Railroad Company
c. Cattle Industry
d. Cigar Industry
e. Influence of Cuban, Greek and Italian immigrants
f. Henry B. Plant
g. William Chipley
h. George Proctor
i. Thomas DeSaille Tucker
j. Hamilton Disston

Changing Role of the United States in world affairs through the end of World War I
1. Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism
a. Monroe Doctrine (What was it? Why is it important? What did it do?)
b. Manifest Destiny (Why is it important? What did it do?)
c. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
d. Roosevelt Corollary (Why is it important? What did it do?)
e. Natural resources
f. Markets for resources
g. Elimination of spheres of influence in China (how did this happen? When did it
happen?)
2. Explain the motives of the United States acquisition of the territories. How did the US
acquire these lands:
a. Alaska
b. Hawaii
c. Puerto Rico
d. Philippines
e. Guam
f. Samoa
g. Marshall Islands
h. Midway Island
i. Virgin Islands
3. Discuss the causes and effects of the Spanish American War.
a. Cubas status as a protectorate
b. Yellow Journalism (what was it? Why was it important?)
c. Sinking of the Maine (Why did this matter? What did it do?)
d. The Philippines (what role did these islands play? Important people?)
e. Commodore Dewey (who was he? What did he do?)
f. Rough Riders (What did they do? Why are they significant?)
g. Treaty of Paris (What were the terms? Why is it significant?)
4. Analyze the economic, military, and security motivations of the United States to
complete the Panama Canal as well as the major obstacles involved in its
construction. Be sure to address:
a. Disease
b. Environmental impact
c. Challenges by Africans and indigenous populations
d. Shipping routes
e. Increase trade
f. Defense and independence for Panama
5. Examine the causes and consequences of the US involvement in World War I.
a. Define and explain the significance of:
i. Nationalism
ii. Imperialism
iii. Militarism
iv. Entangling alliances and neutrality
v. Zimmerman note
vi. Lusitania
vii. Selective Service Act
viii. Life on the home front
ix. American Expeditionary Force
x. Wilsons Fourteen Points
xi. Treate of Versailles
1. Supporters
2. Opponents
xii. Isolationism
6. Examine how the US government prepared the nation for war by:
a. Selective Service Act
b. War Industries Board
c. War bonds

d. Espionage Act
e. Sedition Act
f. Committee of Public Information
7. Examine the impact of technology in creating new war strategies. Be sure to explain
what it is and what the impact was:
a. Airplanes
b. Battleships
c. New weaponry
d. Chemical warfare
8. Compare and contrast the experiences of the following groups of people while
serving in Europe.
a. African Americans
b. Hispanics
c. Asians
d. Women
9. Compare how the war impacted:
a. German Americans
b. Asian Americans
c. African Americans
d. Hispanic Americans
e. Jewish Americans
f. Native Americans
g. Women
h. Dissenters
10. Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the US to support
the League of Nations. What were they? What did they mean? How did the
support/lack of support of the US influence post-war world.
a. Self determination
b. Boundaries
c. Demilitarized zone
d. Sanctions
e. Reparations
f. League of Nations
g. Article X of the Covenant
11. Key people/events in FLwho were they and what did they do.
a. Spanish-American War
b. Ybor City
c. Jose Marti

Analyze the effects of the changing social, political, and economic conditions of the Roaring
Twenties and the Great Depression
1. What were they economic outcomes of demobilization?
2. Explain the causes of the public reaction associated with the Red Scare. Be sure to
address:
a. Sacco and Vanzetti
b. Labor
c. Racial Unrest
d. Palmer Raids
e. FBI
f. J. Edgar Hoover
3. What was the impact of the United States foreign economic policy during the 1920s?
Be sure to include:
a. The Depression of 1920-1921
b. The Business of America is Business
c. Assembly lines
d. Installment buying
e. Consumerism
4. How did the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties change consumers,
businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices?
5. What were the efforts by the US and other world powers to avoid future wars? Be
sure to include:
a. League of Nations
b. Washington Naval Conference
c. London Conference
d. Kellogg-Briand Pact
e. The Noble Prize
6. Discuss the influence that Hollywood, the Harlem Renaissance, the Fundamentalist
movement, ad prohibition had in changing American society in the 1920s.
7. What were the freedom movements that advocated civil rights for African Americans,
Latinos, Asians, and women? What did each do?
8. Compare and contrast the views of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus
Garvey relating to the African American experience.
9. Explain why support for the Ku Klux Klan varied in the 1920s with respect to issues
such as anti-immigration, anti-African American, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, antiwomen, and anti-union ideas.
10. What was the support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans,
Native Americans, and other minorities?
11. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
12. Explain what life was like during the Great Depression.
13. Discuss the effects of the Great Depression.
14. The Florida Connection: Be able to discuss the following people/events as they relate
to the US during this time frame.
a. Rosewood
b. Land boom
c. Speculation
d. Impact of climate/natural disasters with regards to the land boom
e. Invention of modern air conditioning in 1929
f. Alfred DuPont
g. Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
h. Zora Neale Hurston
i. James Weldon Johnson

Analyze the causes and effects of World War II, the character of the war abroad, and its
reshaping of the US role in the post-war world.
1. What were the causes and effects of WWII on the US and the world? Be sure to
address the impact of:
a. Rise of dictators
b. Attack on Pearl Harbor
c. Nazi Party
d. American neutrality
e. D-Day
f. Battle of the Bulge
g. War in the Pacific
h. Internment camps
i. The Holocaust
j. Yalta
2. Describe the US response in the early years of the war with regards to the Neutrality
Acts, Cash and Carry, and Lend Lease Acts.
3. Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during WWII on Jews and other targeted groups.
4. What were the efforts to expand/contract rights for women, African Americans,
German Americans, Japanese Americans and their internment, Native Americans,
Hispanic Americans, and Italian Americans during World War II?
5. Discuss the impact of WWII on domestic government policy. Be sure to address:
a. Rationing
b. National Security
c. Civil Rights
d. Increased job opportunities for African Americans, women, Jews, and other
refugees
6. Compare and contrast the use of atomic weapons during WWII and the aftermath
of the bombings.
7. Describe the attempts to promote international justice through the Nuremberg
Trials.
8. What were the effects of the Red Scare on domestic US policy? Be sure to address
how each of these effected US policy.
a. Loyalty review program
b. House Un-American Activities Committee
c. McCarthyism (Sen. Joe McCarthy)
d. McCarran Act
9. Describe the rationale for the formation of the United Nations including the
contributions of Mary McLeod Bethune and the significance of the Declaration of
Human Rights.
10. Explain the causes and effects of the early years of the Cold War with the regards
to the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and Warsaw Pact.
11. Examine the controversy surrounding the proliferation of nuclear technology in the
US and the world.
12. What were the causes and effects of the Korea War? Be sure to include Communist
China, the 38th parallel, a cease-fire, and firing Gen. Douglas McArthur.
13. Discuss significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Be sure to define and mention which presidents
went with these events and what happened.
Domino Theory
Sputnik
Space race
Korean Conflict
Vietnam Conflict
U-2 and Gary Powers
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Ping Pong Diplomacy

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Opening of China
14. Discuss the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.
Geneva Accords (what were they and why are they important?)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (what was it and why is it important?)
c. The draft (who was involved? How did it work? What was the American
peoples reaction?
d. Escalating protests at home (who was protesting? How were they protesting?
Any notable protests?)
e. Vietnamization (what is this? Why is it important?)
f. The War Powers Ac (what was this? Why was it significant?)
15. The Florida Connection: Be able to discuss the following people/events as they
relate to the US during this time frame.
a. Mosquito Fleet
b. Double V Campaign
c. Construction of military bases and WWII training centers
d. 1959 Cuban coup and its impact on Florida
e. Development of the space program and NASA

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Understand the rise and continuing international influence of the United States as a world
leader and the impact of contemporary social and political movements on American life.
1. Identify the cause of Post-World War II prosperity and its effects on America society.
Be sue to define and address:
a. G.I. Bill
b. Baby Boom
c. Suburbs
d. Beatnik movement
e. Youth culture
f. Religious revivalism (Billy Graham and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen)
g. Conformity of the 1950s
h. Protests of the 1960s
2. Compare and contrast the relative prosperity between different ethnic groups and
social classes in the post-World War II period.
3. Discuss the changing status of women in the US from post-World War II to present.
Be sure to define/explain the significance of the following:
a. Increased numbers of women in the workforce
b. Civil Rights Act of 1964
c. The Feminine Mystique
d. National Organization for Women (NOW)
e. Roe v. Wade
f. Equal Rights Amendment
g. Title IX
h. Betty Freidan
i. Gloria Steinem
j. Phyllis Schlafy
k. Billy Jean King
l. Feminism
4. Evaluate the success of the 1960s era presidents foreign and domestic policies. Be
sure to address:
a. Civil rights legislation
b. Space race
c. Great Society
d. War on Poverty
5. Compare and contrast non-violent and violent approaches used by African Americans,
women, Native Americans, and Hispanics to achieve civil rights. Be sure to include
these actions:
a. Sit-ins
b. Freedom Rides
c. Boycotts
d. Riots
e. Protest riots
6. Explain how these key figures and organizations shaped the Civil Rights Movement
and the Back Power Movement.
a. NAACP
b. National Urban League
c. SNCC
d. CORE
e. James Farmer
f. Charles Houston
g. Thurgood Marshall
h. Rosa Parks
i. Constance Baker Motley
j. The Little Rock Nine
k. Roy Wilkins
l. Whitney M. Young
m. A. Philip Randolph
n. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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p.
q.
r.
s.
t.

Robert F. Williams
Fannie Lou Hamer
Malcom X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
The Black Panther Party
i. Huey P Newton
ii. Bobby Seale
7. Explain the building coalitions between African Americans, whites and other groups in
achieving integration and equal rights. Remember to explain how each of these
helped with this.
a. Freedom Summers
b. Freedom Rides
c. Montgomery Bus Boycott
d. Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956
e. March on Washington
8. Analyze how these Supreme Court decisions relating to integration, busing,
affirmative actions, rights of the accused, and reproductive rights:
a. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
b. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954)
c. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education (1971)
d. Reagents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
e. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
f. Gideon v. Wainright (1963)
g. Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
h. Roe v. Wade (1973)
9. Compare the social movements of Native Americans, Hispanics, women, and anti-war
protesters of the 1960s and 1970s.
10. Analyze the significance of Vietnam and Watergate on the government and people of
the United States. What this means is explain how these following things affected
our country during the Vietnam War era and Watergate:
a. Mistrust of government
b. Reinforcement of freedom of the press
c. Reinforcement of checks and balances
d. New York Times v. Nixon
11. Explain the foreign policy of the US as it relates to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin
America, and the Middle East. How do each of the following effect foreign policy
(define and explain):
a. Haiti
b. Bosnia-Kosovo
c. Rwanda
d. Grenada
e. Camp David Accords
f. Iran Hostage Crisis
g. Lebanon
h. Iran-Iraq War
i. Reagan Doctrine
j. Iran-Contra Affair
k. Persian Gulf War
12. Compare and contrast the political, economic, and social concerns that emerged at
the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century. Be sure to use these examples
in your comparison:
a. AIDS
b. Green Revolution
c. Outsourcing of jobs
d. Global Warming
e. Human rights violations

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13. Explain the attempts to extend New Deal legislation through the Great Society and
the successes and failures of these programs to promote social and economic
stability:
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
c. War on Poverty
d. Medicare
e. Medicaid
f. Headstart
14. Outline the role of the US as a participant in the global economy with regards to trade
agreements (NAFTA), international competition, impact on American labor,
environmental concerns and World Trade Organizations.
15. Analyze the effects of foreign and domestic terrorism on the American people with
the Oklahoma City bombing, September 11, 2001 attacks, the Patriot Act, wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
16. Compare the immigration policies and attitudes toward immigration since 1950.
17. The Florida Connection: Be able to discuss the following people/events as they relate
to the US during this time frame.
a. DISNEY (why central Florida)
b. Growth of citrus and cigar industries
c. Construction of Interstates
d. Harry T. Moore
e. Pork Chop Gang
f. Claude Pepper
g. Changes in the space program
h. The use of DEET
i. Hurricane Andrew
j. Election of 2000
k. Migration and immigration
l. Sunbelt State
18.

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