NAME ________________________________________________ DATE ____________________

AMERICAN CULTURES 412: FINAL EXAMINATION REVIEW Spring 2007

FINAL EXAMINATION REVIEW. The review is worth up to 24 extra credit points. The extra credit points
will be added to the midterm examination point score. The review may be used as a resource for 15 minutes
during the final examination period ONLY IF IT IS COMPLETE. Incomplete reviews will receive pro-rated
extra credit points, but may NOT be used during the examination period. Even if ONE term is not identified,
the review will be considered incomplete. Identifications do not have to be in complete sentences, but must be
thorough and complete.

All work on this review must be your own. No extra credit will be given for copied work.
You will not be able to use a copied review as a reference during the exam.

Part of the final exam will include an essay. You will be able to choose the historical event you want to write
about. You may use the graphic organizer attached to this review to help you write the essay during the exam
period. Use of the graphic organizer is voluntary, but highly recommended! It does not count as part of the
final exam review, but it will be checked before you can use it. Only information directly related to the essay
can be noted on the graphic organizer. If other information is listed, you will not be able to use the organizer
during the exam.

TIME MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION. Studying for a comprehensive final examination can seem
overwhelming – but it is manageable if you begin two weeks in advance of the exam and do a small part each
night. This is crunch time! You should expect to be putting in more time for each class every night -- because
it is near the end of the marking period and because you need to prepare for final exams. To help you prepare
for the exam, the following schedule is recommended. The schedule is organized so that you complete around
50 terms each night and develop an organizer for your essay. Students who follow this schedule will receive
ten extra credit points for each day’s assignment that is completed on time.

Tuesday, May 22 Complete terms # 1-25

Wednesday, May 23
Thursday, May 24
Friday, May 25
Saturday, May 26
Sunday, May 27
Monday, May 28
Tuesday, May 29
Wednesday, May 30
Thursday, May 31
Friday, June 1
Complete terms # 26-47
Complete terms # 48-66
Complete terms # 67-105
Look up any vocabulary words you do not know
Choose your essay topic and begin to work on the graphic organizer
Memorial Day. Relax and enjoy!!!
Complete terms # 106-130
Complete terms # 131-163
Complete terms # 164-193
Complete terms # 194-280

Depending on the date of your final exam, you should plan to review all terms for 1-2 days before the exam and
go over the graphic organizer for your essay to make sure that you have all the information you need.
PART I. HISTORICAL TERMS

DIRECTIONS: Identify each of the following. Where terms are grouped together, write one statement that
shows the relationship between/among the terms. Pages from the text are identified for each chapter, but you
should also refer to notes and handouts. Most of the terms from Chapters 6, 7, and 9 are on the multi-colored
sheets of terms used for the Glossary for the Turn-of-the-Century magazine project. If you have room, you may
write on the review sheet, or you may write on notebook paper. All work must be your own.

CHAPTER 1 – AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (notes)

1. federalism

2. checks and balances

3. judicial review

4. separation of powers

5. Preamble

6. Constitution/Supreme Law of the Land

7. Bill of Rights

CHAPTER 3 – RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1877 (pp. 340-402)

8. Reconstruction

9. pardon

10. President Johnson’s Plan

11. Freedmen’s Bureau

12. black codes

13. 13th Amendment

14. 14th Amendment/due process of law/equal protection

15. 15th Amendment

16. impeachment/Pres. Johnson’s impeachment/Edmund Ross

17. carpetbaggers

18. scalawags

19. sharecropping

20. Ku Klux Klan

21. Solid South

22. Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes/Samuel Tilden

23. Compromise of 1877

24. successes of Reconstruction

25. failures of Reconstruction

CHAPTER 4 THE EXPANSION OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY 1850-1900 (pp. 406-430)

26. patents

27. transcontinental railroad/time zones

28. telegraph/Samuel F. B. Morse

29. telephone/Alexander Graham Bell

30. light bulb/phonograph/central power station/Thomas Edison

31. alternating current/George Westinghouse

32. Bessemer process/steel/Andrew Carnegie

33. mass production

34. robber barons/captains of industry

35. philanthropist

36. Social Darwinism

37. monopoly

38. cartel

39. John D. Rockefeller/Standard Oil Trust

40. trust/Sherman Anti-Trust Act

41. horizontal/vertical consolidation

42. labor

43. market

44. entrepreneurship

45. laissez-faire
46. natural resources for industrialization

47. division of labor

48. corporation/stock/dividend

49. socialism

50. Knights of Labor

51. American Federation of Labor/Samuel Gompers

52. collective bargaining

53. International Workers of the World/Wobblies

54. scabs

55. Homestead Strike

CHAPTER 5 LOOKING TO THE WEST 1860-1900 (pp. 432-458)

56. Homestead Act

57. Exodusters

58. the railroad and westward expansion

59. Sitting Bull/Battle of Little Big Horn/George Armstrong Custer

60. Massacre at Wounded Knee

61. Chief Joseph

62. Helen Hunt Jackson/Century of Dishonor

63. Dawes Act

64. Oklahoma land rush/Sooners/Boomers

65. dry farming

66. bonanza farms

67. Pike’s Peak

68. Comstock Lode

69. long drive/open range

70. barbed wire/Joseph Glidden

71. populism/Populists

72. bimetallic standard/Silverites

73. gold standard/Gold bugs

74. The Grange/Farmers Alliances

75. Interstate Commerce Act

76. progressive income tax

77. William Jennings Bryan/Cross of Gold speech

78. impact of Populism

79. Turner’s frontier thesis

80. buffalo soldiers

81. Nat Love

CHAPTER 6 POLITICS, IMMIGRATION, AND URBAN LIFE, 1870-1915 (pp. 460-484)

82. Gilded Age

83. spoils system/civil service/Pendleton Civil Service Act

84. steerage

85. quarantine

86. Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty

87. Chinese Exclusion Act

88. tenements/ghettos

89. Jacob Riis

90. political machine/graft/Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall

91. Thomas Nast

92. temperance movement/prohibition

93. social gospel movement

94. Jane Addams/Hull House

CHAPTER 7 DAILY LIFE IN THE GILDED AGE, 1870-1915 (pp. 486-508)

95. public schools/assimilation

96. Booker T. Washington/Tuskegee Institute

97. W. E. B. Du bois/Niagara Movement

98. vaudeville/minstrel shows

99. Cincinnati Red Stockings

100. yellow journalism

101. Mark Twain

102. ragtime/Scott Joplin/jazz

103. Jim Crow laws/Plessy v. Ferguson/lynching/segregation

104. NAACP

105. rural free delivery/mail-order catalogues

CHAPTER 8 BECOMING A WORLD POWER 1890-1913 (pp. 514-538)

106. imperialism/spheres of influence

107. Monroe Doctrine

108. manifest destiny

109. annexation/acquisition/agreement

110. the Maine

111. Theodore Roosevelt/Rough Riders

112. Results of Spanish-American War

113. U.S. – Philippines War/Emilio Aguinaldo

114. Hawaii/Queen Liliuokalani/Samuel Dole

115. China/Open Door Policy/Boxer Rebellion

116. Panama Canal

117. Roosevelt Corollary

118. William Taft/dollar diplomacy

119. imperialist/anti-imperialist debate

CHAPTER 9 THE ERA OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM 1890-1920 (pp. 540-562)

120. muckrakers

121. Upton Sinclair/The Jungle

122. Progressive Era

123. direct primary/initiative/referendum/recall

124. holding companies/Northern Securities case

125. conservation

126. Theodore Roosevelt – progressive reforms

127. 16th Amendment

128. 18th Amendment

129. William Taft – progressive reforms

130. Bull Moose Party

131. Woodrow Wilson – progressive reforms

132. Clayton Anti-trust Act

133. Federal Reserve system

134. Susan B. Anthony/suffrage/19th Amendment

Chapter 22 World War 1, 1914-1919 (pages 564-590)

135. nationalism-

136. Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

137. Trench Warfare

138. World War 1 was also known as this?

139. Central Powers

140. Allied Powers

141. No-Mans Land

142. Battle of Verdun

143. Submarine Warfare

144. Woodrow Wilson

145. When the war started what side did the United States fight on?

146. Lusitiania

147. Russian Revolution

148. What does the word armistice mean?

149. 14 Points

150. Treaty of Versailles

151. Alliances

152. Gallipoli

153. Name some of the technology that World War 1 introduced to war?

Chapter 23 The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929 (pages 596-628)

154. red scare-

155. flappers

156. Sacco and Vanzetti

157. ACLU

158. Xenophobia

159. Great Migration

160. Warren Harding

161. Calvin Coolidge

162. prohibition

163. Scopes Trial

164. nickelodeons

165. Charles Lindbergh

166. Amelia Earhart

167. Jim Thorpe

168. Harlem Renaissance

The 1930’s and The Great Depression
169. Bonus Army

170. The Great Depression

171. Banks

172. The Stock Market Crash

173. Franklin Roosevelt

174. CCC

175. Japan

176. Herbert Hoover

177. The New Deal

178. Fireside Chats

179. Social Security

180. dust bowl

181. Eleanor Roosevelt

182. The Hindenburg

183. The Grapes of Wrath

184. Radio Shows

185. Bennito Mussolini

186. Adolph Hitler

187. Nazis

188. Nazis

189. Kristallnacht

190. Lindbergh Kidnapping

191. Berlin Olympics

192. Scottsboro Boys

193. Bruno Hauptmann

World War 2
194. Luftwaffe-

195. Poland

196. Axis Powers

197. France

198. Blitzkrieg

199. Allied Powers

200. Neutral

201. Franklin Roosevelt

202. Winston Churchill

203. Adolph Hitler

204. Joseph Stalin

205. Lend-Lease Act

206. Bennito Mussolini

207. Japan

208. Kristallnacht

209. Pearl Harbor

210. “Day Which Will Live In Infamy”

211. Douglas Macarthur

212. Bataan Death March

213. Battle of Midway

214. Kamikazes

215. Island Hopping

End of 30’s through 1959: Start of the Cold War

216. United Nations

217. Nuremberg Trials

218. Israel
219. Truman Doctrine

220. Marshall Plan

221. Berlin Airlift

222. NATO

223. Korean War

224. Dwight Eisenhower

225. Harry Truman

226. Douglas Macarthur

227. Baby Boom

228. MacCarthyism

229. Hydrogen Bombs

230. Blacklisting

231. I Love Lucy

232. Elvis Presley

233. Rock n’ Roll

234. Segregation

235. Little Rock 9

236. Montgomery Bus Boycott

237. Joseph Stalin

238. CIA

239. Cold War

The 1960’s
240. Election of 1960

241. Why was Kennedy questioned before the election?

242. Kennedy’s 3 Cold War Crises

243. Lee Harvey Oswald

244. Lyndon Johnson

245. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

246. Nonviolent Resistance

247. Martin Luther King Jr.

248. Civil Rights Act of 1964

249. Malcolm X

250. Hippies

251. Woodstock

252. Vietnam War

253. Doves/ Hawks

254. Average age of an American Soldier in Vietnam

255. Tet offensive

256. Richard Nixon

257. Singers of the 1960’s

258. March on Washington

1970’s And Beyond (Be able to tell me which President corresponds with each event) Nixon, Ford, Carter,
Reagan, George HW Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush
259. pulled troops from Vietnam
260. pardons Nixon
261. End of Communism (Berlin Wall Comes Down)
262. Iran Contra Affair
263. Camp David Accords (Egypt and Israel)
264. Focus on the environment (clean air act)
265. Watergate Scandal
266. After soaring popularity after Desert Strom popularity falls with economy
267. Iran Hostage Crises
268. Controversial election win versus Al Gore
269. Increased military spending. Deals with Gorbachev.
270. Rise of Cult Religions (Jonestown)
271. Rise of gun deaths, drugs, AIDS
272. Declares War on Drugs
273. Gas Prices Skyrocket
274. Start of MTV and cable
275. Military in Somalia, Haiti and Balkans
276. Rise in crime and police violence
277. Helps Negotiate peace agreement in Northern Ireland
278. new technology (internet,Napster)
279. Monica Lewinsky
280. Declares War on terrorism (Afghanistan, Iraq)
PART II. CURRENT EVENTS RELATED TO HISTORY. Read the attached news article. Look up any
vocabulary words you do not know. Be prepared to answer questions on the article on the midterm exam. You
will have a copy of the article on the exam. There are no questions on this review related to the article.

PART II. ESSAY. Think about the following essay and choose your topic. The essay is to be written during the
exam period, but you may complete and use the attached graphic organizer during the exam. Use of the graphic
organizer is voluntary and does not count as part of the midterm exam review for extra credit. The graphic
organizer may only include information directly related to the historical event you chose to write about for the
essay. The graphic organizer will be checked and returned to you if it meets these requirements. Organizers
that include information not related to the essay will not be returned for use during the exam.

ESSAY: Choose one specific event or development from 1865 to 1917 that had a significant impact on the
course of U. S. history. Describe the event or development in detail, then discuss its political, economic,
and/or cultural impact on the people of the United States. You must select two of the three impact areas. You
may choose political and economic, political and cultural, or economic and cultural. Include an introduction
and conclusion. Use proper essay form. Make sure that the event or development chosen falls within the
time period 1865 to 1917.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR ESSAY

PARAGRAPH 1
INTRODUCTION
State the event you will be discussing and its importance to
U. S. history

PARAGRAPH 2
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT/DEVELOPMENT
Detailed description of the event/development. Include all information –
who, what, when, where, why, how.
 PARAGRAPH 3
IMPACT OF EVENT/DEVELOPMENT
Analyze the impact of the event/development in the
area of politics, economic, or culture. Be specific and
use historical facts to back up your ideas
 PARAGRAPH 4
IMPACT OF EVENT/DEVELOPMENT
Analyze the impact of the event/development in the
area of politics, economic, or culture. Be specific and
use historical facts to back up your ideas.
 PARAGRAPH 5
CONCLUSION
Summarize your ideas in a solid paragraph. You may include
personal comments on why you selected this event.