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U.S. HISTORY
FIRST SEMESTER REVIEW
CHAPTER 1
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PERIOD __________
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3.
List three things stressed by the Enlightenment philosophers.
What kind of society did the Puritans want to create?
What religious movement in the colonial period caused people to question traditional
authority?
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4.
What were the Bill of Rights and why were they added to the Constitution?
5.
What was the purpose of the checks and balances system in the Constitution?
6.
Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense? What was its purpose?
7.
How many electors in the Electoral College does each state have? What is the purpose
of the Electoral College?
8.
Which European country supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War?
9.
The First Continental Congress was formed to protest which British laws?
10.
What did Shays’ Rebellion demonstrate to the American people?
11.
What is the Supreme Law of the land?
12.
What are the three main branches of the federal government?
13.
What office is the commander-in-chief of military forces?
14.
What is the free exercise clause in the Bill of Rights?
CHAPTER 3
15.
What is judicial review? Which Supreme Court case established the principle of
judicial review?
16.
Why was the Monroe Doctrine established by the U.S. in 1823?
17.
How did Andrew Jackson increase the power of the president by ensuring government
officials would agree with his policies? (two-word term)
18.
What religious movement introduced an era of reform during the 1830’s and 1840’s?
19.
Which religious group settled Utah to escape persecution in the eastern states?
CHAPTER 4
20.
What was the purpose of “total war”, as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?
21.
What was popular sovereignty?
22.
What did the Dred Scott case decide concerning slaves and free territory?
23.
What was the main goal of Lincoln throughout the Civil War?
24.
What advantages did the South have in the Civil War?
25.
What abolished slavery throughout the U.S.?
26.
What basic difference between the North and South led to the Civil War? Hint: It wasn’t
slavery.
27.
Who were the Free-Soilers?
28.
What was the Union’s three part plan to conquer the South?
29.
What document gave a moral purpose for the Union during the Civil War?
30.
What was the philosophical difference between Lincoln’s plan of reconstruction and the
Radical plan of reconstruction?
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CHAPTER 4
31.
Which group in the South opposed the Radical Republican state governments created by
the Radical Plan of Reconstruction?
32.
Which group of whites in the South would not be allowed to participate in the state
governments if Johnson’s plan of reconstruction had been adopted?
33.
What part of the Compromise of 1850 did the southerners support the most?
34.
What was the Anaconda Plan used by the Union during the Civil War?
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35.
Who ran for president in 1896 under both the Democratic Party and the Populist Party?
36.
What was bimetallism and what group in American society supported it in the late 19th
century?
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37.
What was the purpose of industrial consolidation and trusts during the Gilded Age?
38.
What impact did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire have?
39.
List three factors that helped contribute to the industrial boom of the late 19th century
and early 20th century.
40.
What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act? How effective was it?
41.
What is collective bargaining?
42.
Who created the standardized time zones and why?
43.
What was Social Darwinism? Which economic group in American society supported
this philosophy?
44.
What is vertical integration?
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45.
What was Angel Island? Ellis Island?
46.
What was the main goal of the Americanization movement?
47.
What was Tammany Hall?
48.
What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
49.
What is nativism?
50.
What were political party machines?
51.
What was the Social Gospel?
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52.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
53.
What were Jim Crow laws? What Supreme Court case upheld the Jim Crow laws?
54.
Name three ways southern states limited African American voting rights.
55.
Who was W. E. B. Dubois?
CHAPTER 9
56.
What were the goals of the progressive movement?
57.
Who were the muckrakers?
58.
What did the novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair expose?
59.
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act require?
60.
What was the Seventeenth Amendment?
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CHAPTER 9
61.
What was the primary goal of the prohibitionists? Which amendment supported
this goal?
62.
What was Theodore Roosevelt’s position on trusts?
63.
What was the Sixteenth Amendment?
64.
What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
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65.
List three reasons why the U.S. became an imperialistic nation?
66.
Which two newspaper publishers through the practice of yellow journalism helped bring
on the Spanish-American war?
67.
Who were the imperialistic powers in the late 1800’s?
68.
Which islands came under the control of the U.S. as a result of the Spanish-American
war?
69.
What were the Open Door Notes?
70.
What phrase was used to describe Theodore Roosevelt’s strong military foreign policy?
71.
How did the U.S. obtain the right to build the Panama Canal?
72.
What was dollar diplomacy?
73.
What was missionary diplomacy?
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Why were some U.S. Senators opposed to the U.S. joining the League of Nations?
75.
What policy did Wilson adopt when WWI started in Europe?
76.
What were the Espionage and Alien Acts? How did they affect the First Amendment?
77.
What impact did WWI have on women?
78.
What was the Great Migration?
79.
What was the major cause of the U.S. entry into WWI?
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80.
List three causes for the decline of labor unions during the 1920’s.
81.
What helped encourage urban sprawl in the 1920’s?
82.
What were the Palmer Raids?
83.
What is anarchism?
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84.
Why was it difficult to enforce prohibition?
85.
What did they call the clubs that sold illegal legal during prohibition?
86.
Who made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic?
87.
What was the NAACP?
88.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
89.
Who controls economic activity in a capitalist society?
90.
What was the Scopes Monkey trial?