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Name: _________________________________________ Period: ______ U.S. History Mid-Term Study Guide 2017 (Mr. Hepner) For each term, name or statement, write a sentence or more explaining its significance. The West Chapter 5 Homestead Act What influence did the railroads have in the cattle industry? Federal Governments policy and treatment of the Plains Indians Custer’s Last Stand / Battle of Little Big Horn Plains Indians Culture and Life Wounded Knee What was the Dawes Act and why did it fail? Long Drive Crazy Horse Sitting Bull New Industrial Age, Immigration, Urbanization Chapter 6, 7 What is Urbanization? What groups of people contributed to it? New technology o Electricity o Bessemer Process o Types of transportation associated with Urbanization Who were Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller Describe their business practices “trust” Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 George Pullman Alexander Graham Bell Samuel Morse What Happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? What were the results of the investigation? Robber Baron Social Darwinism William Tweed Thomas Nast Eugene V. Debs Standardized Time Patronage Credit Mobilier Haymarket Square Scabs Strike Yellow Journalism Development of the department stores What was a ‘company town’? Labor Unions Why were they formed? What were the main goals of the Populist Party? Laissez-faire economics Pendleton Act What was the Gilded Age? Political Machine Political Graft Immigration What was the immigration trend that changed in the late 1800’s? Jacob Riis Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen’s agreement Nativism Immigration Act of 1924 Ellis Island Angel Island Imperialism Why did the United States try to implement Imperialism? What were the causes of the Spanish American War? Who was Admiral Mahan and what did he want to accomplish? Open Door Policy Platt Amendment Describe how the United States came to build the Panama Canal Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Nobel Peace Prize Yellow Journalism USS Maine Boxer Rebellion The Progressive Era Muckrakers – Who were they and what did they write about? What was the Progressive Movement? Federal Reserve Act The Square Deal 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment 20th Amendment 21st Amendment - Recall Initiative Election of 1912 – What were the short term and long term outcomes? Plessy v. Ferguson Upton Sinclair + The Jungle World War I When did it start? How long did it last? What were the causes of World War I? Who was president during WW1? Why did the United States enter the fighting in WW1? What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts and who did they target? Why did Russia withdrawal from WWI before it was over? Who were the “Big Four”? What important countries leaders were excluded from the Treaty of Versailles peace talks? Treaty of Versailles What was included? Why did the Unites States Senate not ratify it? Doughboys Schlieffen Plan Unrestricted Submarine warfare Blockade Trench warfare New weapon technology of WW1 How did World War 1 affect people’s lives on the ‘home front’ (civilians in the U.S.)? The Roaring 1920’s Prohibition Flapper Harlem Renaissance Scopes Trial Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s The Red Scare Speakeasies Installment plan What inventions were led to the building of skyscrapers Teapot Dome Scandal The Great Migration Describe Warren G. Harding as president Borrowing on Margin Speculation The Great Depression and The New Deal Presidents of United States during the Great Depression? Political Party? Years in office? Stock market Crash Bonus Army What were the practical effects of the depression? What were the psychological effects? Hoovervilles Rugged Individualism Fireside Chats Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) Social Security Act Huey Long NIRA
