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US History I (Ch. 8- Ch. 15) EXAM REVIEW
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Chapter 8: Becoming a World Power (1890-1913)
1. Annexation
2. Imperialism
3. Arbitration
4. Sphere of Influence
5. Concession
6. Why did the United States follow a policy of expansionism in the late 1800s?
7. How did the United States reaffirm the Monroe Doctrine in the late 1800s?
8. How did William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer use their newspapers in the late 1800s?
9. What was a main goal of the United States during the Spanish-American War?
10. What was a result of the Spanish-American War?
11. Why was the building of the Panama Canal important?
12. How is President Theodore Roosevelt often remembered?
13. What event led to the Spanish-American War?
14. What was the central message of the Roosevelt Corollary?
15. What was the connection made between imperialism and the American frontier?
Chapter 9: The Era of Progressive Reform (1890-1920)
1. civil disobedience
2. direct primary
3. initiative
4. injunction
5. recall
6. What did President Roosevelt’s progressive record include?
7. Why did Woodrow Wilson win the Presidential election of 1912?
8. Why did President Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?
9. What caused progressivism to end?
10. What things did municipal (CITY) reformers favor by the early 1900s?
11. What action did President Roosevelt take in the United Mine Workers’ strike in 1902?
12. How did Woodrow Wilson’s reform platform during the 1912 campaign differ from Theodore Roosevelt?
Chapter 10: The World War I Era (1914-1920)
1. armistice
2. genocide
3. mobilization
4. reparations
5. Versailles Treaty
6. What event sparked World War I?
7. Describe the events of the first few years of World War I.
8. What caused the United States to enter World War I?
9. What was the purpose of the convoy system?
10. What was the role of African Americans during World War I?
11. What happened to Russia’s involvement in the war after Vladimir Lenin seized control in 1917?
12. How did the US government increase control of the economy during World War I?
13. What did fear of spies and sabotage in the United States during the war lead to?
14. What did President Wilson convince the Allies to do?
15. Why did many Senators oppose American entry unto the League of Nations?
Chapter 11: The Twenties (1920-1929)
1. communism
2. demographics
3. fundamentalism
4. Harlem Renaissance
5. isolationism
6. quota
7. What were three key features of Republican administrations of the 1920s?
8. The Red Scare was a response to which event?
9. What did consumers do in the 1920s that caused the economy to grow?
10. Though relatively few in number, what did flappers represented in society?
11. What was a major demographic shift of the 1920s?
12. What did the rapid development of the mass media during the 1920s promote?
13. Why did many Americans fear Vladimir Lenin and his followers, the Bolsheviks?
14. What caused labor unrest in the United States after World War I?
15. What was a result of the boom in the automobile industry?
16. How did life change for American women in the 1920s?
17. Name one long term effect of Prohibition.
Chapter 12: Crash and Depression (1929-1933)
1. Bonus Army
2. buying on margin
3. Dow Jones Industrial Average
4. speculation
5. welfare capitalism
6. Dorothea Lange
7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
8. John J. Raskob
9. John Maynard Keynes
10. 21st Amendment
11. How did most Americans feel about the economy in the 1920s?
12. What was a sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s?
13. Briefly describe the American economy in the 1920s.
14. What was the name for the major environmental crisis of the 1930s?
15. What ended with the passing of the 21st Amendment?
16. What happened to African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans during the Great Depression?
17. How was the 1932 presidential election a turning point in the way Americans viewed elections?
18. How did most investors react to a sudden fall in stock prices in 1929?
19. What was one effect of the wage cuts and unemployment in the 1930s?
Chapter 13: The New Deal (1933-1938)
1. demagogues
2. national debt
3. New Deal
4. public works program
5. revenue
6. social security system
7. What New Deal agency was created to help business?
8. How did the National Industrial Recovery Act aim to help business?
9. What was the “black cabinet”?
10. What was the Second New Deal?
11. Who was not helped by New Deal programs?
12. What is a legacy of the New Deal?
13. How did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt defy (go against) tradition?
14. What was partly responsible for the recession of 1937?
15. What happened because of the Wagner Act?
16. What was the “purpose” of movies in the late 1930s?
Chapter 14: World War II (1939-1945)
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Benito Mussolini
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Hideki Tojo
5. Joseph Stalin
6. Winston Churchill
7. blitzkrieg
8. Manhattan Project
9. anti-Semitism
10. death camp
11. ghetto
12. Holocaust
13. Kristallnacht
14. appeasement
15. fascism
16. What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s?
17. What prompted the United States to enter into the war in 1941?
18. What happened on D-Day?
19. In what part of the world were the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal fought?
20. Describe Japanese kamikazes.
21. What finally brought an end to World War II?
22. What happened V-E Day, May 8, 1945?
23. What was the American strategy used in the Pacific called?
24. Why did the Nazis pass the Nuremburg Laws in 1935?
25. Hitler considered some groups of people “undesirable”. Where did they have to go?
Ch. 15: World War II at Home (1941-1945)
1. Double “V” campaign
2. internment camps
3. liberty ships
4. Rosie the Riveter
5. victory gardens
6. war bonds
7. Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization?
8. How did the government seek to guarantee profits for businesses engaged in war production?
9. Provide an example of deficit spending during the war.
10. What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime jobs?
11. What was the goal of the Office of War Information?
12. Provide a description of women who went to work during wartime.
13. What effect did the war have on racial conditions in the United States?
14. What was it like to live in the North during the war?
15. What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast?
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