Download Review for U.S. History 11- 1st Semester Exam Chapter 13: Settling

Review for U.S. History 11- 1st Semester Exam
Chapter 13: Settling the West- 1865-1900
1. How did early prospectors extract shallow deposits of ore? Pg 415
2. Why did Americans in the early 1800s think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were not practical? Pg 416
3. What was the Chisholm Trail? Pg 417
4. Under the Homestead Act, how could homesteaders gain title to the land? Pg 421
5. In terms of farming the Great Plains, what was “dry farming,”? pg 422
6. What did mining corporations begin to do after ore near the surface dwindled? Pg 414
7. Where did the material for “dime novels” often come from? Pg 418
8. What did the fencing of the range result in? pg 419
9. Why did wheat have an advantage on the Great Plains? Pg 422
10. Why did the army encourage white hunters to kill buffalo? Pg 429
11. What positive effects did the railroads have for western settlers? Pg 421
Chapter 14: Industrialization – 1865-1901
1. Did laissez-faire advocates support government interference in the economy? Pg 438
2. What was the result of the Pacific Railway Act of 1862? Pg 443
3. Even before the invention of the automobile, why was petroleum in high demand? Pg 437
4. What does Laissez-faire rely on to regulate prices and wages? Pg 438
5. What was the result of economies of scale for corporations? Pg 448
6. How did the American Railway Association make rail service more reliable in 1883? Pg 444
7. Why did it make sense for big corporations to continue operating during poor economic times? Pg 448
8. According to this 1869 miner’s song’s lyrics what was to blame for the loss of life? Pg 454
9. What is a corporation? Pg 448 & 449… and Draw a picture of horizontal and vertical integration.
Chapter 15: Urban America- 1865-1896
1. By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants in the United States were from where? Pg 464
2. Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States In the early 1860s? pg 467
3. What argument did many labor unions use to oppose immigration? Pg 468
4. For which group has life expectancy increased the most from 1900 to 1997? Pg 482
5. What did Nativists want? Pg 468
6. Subway systems were first developed to do what? Pg 471
7. Political machines provided new city dwellers with jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for
what? Pg473
8. What was the idea of individualism? Pg 477
9. What were the regions where nativist feelings were strongest during the industrial period? Pg 468
10. What happened in the cities with the large influx of people? Pg 472
11. How did the way the wealthy live differ from the poor? Pg 471 What was the Gospel of Wealth? Page 478
12. Why did the American public support the need for public education? Pg 486
Chapter 16: Politics and Reform- 1877-1896
1. How would people gain government jobs under the Pendleton Act? Pg 493
2. What were the results of the McKinley Tariff? Pg 497
3. What was the result of the help that new technology gave farmers to produce more crops? Pg 501
4. What were the reasons for the failure of the Farmers’ Alliance cooperatives? Pg 502
5. Why was the Sherman Antitrust Act not very effective initially? Pg 497
6. Explain how segregation in the North was different from the South? Pg 510
7. What were the Jim Crow Laws? Pg 510 What part of the country were lynching’s taking place in large
numbers in the late 1800’s? pg 511
8. What was the intent of the “poll tax” in the South? Pg 510
9. What do tariffs do? Why did many in the 1880s believe that high tariffs were no longer needed? Pg 501
Chapter 17: Becoming a World Power- 1872-1912
1. Why were Europeans, in the late 1800s, looking overseas for places to sell their products? Pg 521
2. What is the name for the economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker nations? Pg 521
3. Describe Social Darwinism as it was applied to American expansionism. Pg 521
4. What were U.S. actions in the Pacific and in Latin America primarily focused on? Pg 522
5. Why did President Franklin Pierce send a naval expedition to Japan? Pg 522
6. In the late 1800s, why did support grow in the U.S. for building a large modern navy?
7. Give one reason Republican President McKinley felt he had to give in to pressures to go to war with Spain?
Pg 529
8. Sensational reporting, where writers often exaggerated the truth or made up stories to attract readers was
called? Pg 528
9. What fueled American public support for the rebels in Cuba? Pg 528
10. Why did President McKinley send the battleship Maine to Havana, Cuba in 1898? Pg 529
11. Describe the terms of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. Pg 532
12. How did the United States gain control over the Philippines? Pg 532
13. What did supporters of annexing the Philippines believe? Pg 532
14. Why did the Republican Party choose T. Roosevelt to be McKinley’s running mate in the 1900 election?
Pg 536
15. How did Theodore Roosevelt become president? Pg 537
16. What was the purpose of the Open Door policy in China? Pg 538
17. In China, who were the Boxers? Pg 538
18. What country did the U.S try to negotiate with to gain the rights and property to construct the Panama
Canal? Pg 540
19. Describe the Roosevelt Corollary. Pg 540
20. Roosevelt’s idea of intervening in Latin American affairs when necessary was seen as an extension of?
Pg 541
21. Describe ‘dollar diplomacy’. Pg 541
Chapter 18: The Progressive Movement- 1890-1919.
1. Who were the Progressives? Pg 546
2. Who were the muckrakers? Pg 547
3. How did the 17th Amendment contribute to popular sovereignty? Pg 549
4. What did the Suffrage Movement eventually gain? Pg 549-551
5. What was the movement to end the use, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages? Pg 552
6. Describe President Roosevelt’s legacy. Pg 559
7. What progressive reforms did President Taft introduce? Pg 565
8. How did President Woodrow Wilson contribute to tariff reform? Pg 568
Chapter 19: World War I and its aftermath- 1914-1920
1. What countries made up the Triple Entente and Triple Alliance? Pg 578
2. What was the event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I? Pg 578
3. What did the Fuel Administration introduce to conserve energy during World War I? pg 586
4. According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, what would Mexico get? Pg 582
5. According to the Selective Service Act, what determined the order in which men were called to service?
Pg 584
6. “Selling” the war to the American people was the task of whom? Pg 588
7. What effectively silenced criticism of the war at home? Pg 588
8. What was the estimated cost of the war and how did the USA pay for it? Pg 586
Chapter 21: Normalcy and Good Times- 1921-1929.
1. Warren G. Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans’ desire for what? Pg 637
2. What did Coolidge believe the government should do? Pg 638
3. How did Ford’s system for making cars increase efficiency? Pg 641
4. In the 1920s, what careers did young people begin to look for? Pg 645
5. In the Teapot Dome scandal, what did a government official receive bribes for? Pg 638
6. What was Henry Ford’s business philosophy to increase sales? Pg 641
7. After World War I, how did most Americans want to avoid future wars? Pg 649
Chapter 22 – 23 Great Depression- New Deal 1929-1939
1. Why did stock prices begin to decline in 1929? Pg 658
2. What happened when a bank collapsed? Pg 659
3. Who did President Hoover believe should be responsible for helping the unemployed? Pg670
4. How did President Roosevelt plan on paying for the New Deal Programs? Pg 690
5. To fight the depression President Roosevelt first had to deal with restoring the confidence in what institution? Pg 683
6. What did President Roosevelt create to regulate the stock market? Pg 684
7. An organization created during the Great Depression to provide jobs for young men. Pg 687
8. An organization to help farmers. Pg 685
9. The Legacy of the New Deal. Pg 700- Government’s new role