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Second Semester
Questions and Major Themes
Identifications
Chapter 16
What factors contributed to the decline of the
bison ?
2. What factors helped to advance the integration of
the national economy after the Civil War?
3. What prompted the U.S. government to set aside
natural reserves such as Yellowstone? What were
the results of that policy?
1.
4.
5.
6.
Carlisle Indian School
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Exodusters
Chapter 17 : Industrial America
1. What factors led to the rise of the corporation after
1865?
2. What factors promoted the emergence of the labor
movement?
3. How did the goals and practices of the AFL
resemble and differ from those of the Knights of
Labor?
4. How were women affected by the rise of industrial
capitalism?
5. How did patterns of immigration to the United
States change between 1840 and 1900?
1.
2.
“Birds of Passage”
14th Amendment &
Corporations
3. American Tobacco
Company
4. Bessemer Process
5. Blacklisted
6. Burlingame Treaty
(1868)
7. Chinese Exclusion Act
8. Closed shop
9. Farmers’ Alliance
10. Frederick Taylor
11. Gospel of Wealth
12. Haymarket Riot
13. Homestead Strike
14. Interstate Commerce Act
15. Ladies Home Journal
16. Standard Oil
17. Vertical/Horizontal
integration
18. Wabash v. Illinois
19. Yellow-dog Contract
Chapter 18: The Victorians
1. Why did athletics become popular in the late 19th
century? In what ways was the rise of sports
representative of broader changes in American
society and culture?
2. What were some of the changes in women’s lives
and public activities during this period?
3. What political reform goals did women pursue in
this era?
4. What factors contributed to the rise of literary
realism and modernism? What are some
examples?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Billy Sunday
Booker T. Washington
Cult of Domesticity
Eugenics movement
Gibson Girl
Herbert Spencer
John Muir
8.
Literary realism &
modernism
9. Muscular Christianity
10. Salvation Army
11. Social Gospel
12. Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
13. YMCA
Chapter 19: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities
1. Why did so many new forms of popular culture
arise during this era?
2. What role—positive and negative—did political
machines play in city governments?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Boss Tweed
City Beautiful Movement
Comstock Laws
Dumbbell tenement
Food & Drug
Administration
Frederick Law Olmstead
Hull House
Chapter 20: Populists & Progressives
8.
9.
10.
11.
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riss
Jane Addams
Settlement House
Movement
12. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
13. Vaudeville
14. Yellow Journalism
1. What were the political, economic, and social
origins of the Populist Movement?
2. What were some of the innovations that expanded
democracy during the Progressive Era?
3. Compare and contrast Roosevelt’s approach to the
trusts with Wilson’s.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Anthracite Coal Strike
Bully Pulpit
Bull Moose Party
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Coxey’s Army
Cross of Gold Speech
Eugene Debs
Farmers’ Alliance
Federal Reserve Act
Florence Kelley
Grange Movement
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
Hepburn Act
Ida B. Wells
Jim Crow
Muller v. Oregon
New Freedom
Pendleton Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Populist Party Platform
Square Deal
W.E.B. DuBois
William Jennings Bryan
Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power
1. Why did it become untenable for the United States to
adhere to its traditional isolation from world affairs?
2. What were the factors that compelled President
McKinley to declare war on Spain in 1898?
3. What economic and intellectual factors prompted US
imperialism in the late 19th century?
4. What were the issues at the core of the debate over the
annexation of Hawaii?
5. Why did the United States enter the WWI and what
were President Wilson's plans for peace?
6. What were the political, economic, and social effects of
WWI?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
“Work or fight”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Article X
Benevolent
Assimilation
Boxer Rebellion
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Committee on Public
Information (G. Creel)
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade
Commission
Food Administration
(H. Hoover)
Four-Minute Men
Frederick Jackson
Turner
Great Migration
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Great White Fleet
Henry Cabot Lodge
Irreconcilables
Lusitania
National War Labor
Board
Nineteenth
Amendment
Open Door Policy
Philippine-American
War
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Root-Takahira
Agreement
Russo-Japanese War
Schenck v. United
States
Treaty of Versailles
Veracruz Incident
Chapter 22: Wrestling with Modernity
1. To what degree and why did Americans return to
isolationism during the 1920s?
2. What factors contributed to racial and labor violence
after WWI?
3. What factors contributed to the emergence of the Red
Scare?
4. What were the origins of jazz and what role did it play
in the culture of the 1920s?
5. Who were the major modernist American writers and
what criticisms of mainstream culture did these writers
offer in the 1920s?
6. Describe and account for the rise of nativism in
American society from 1900 to 1930.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Al Capone
American Civil
Liberties Union
(ACLU)
Babbitt
Birth of a Nation
Clara Bow
Dollar Diplomacy
Election of 1828
Five-Power Naval
Treaty
Flappers & Vamps
10. Harlem Renaissance
11. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
(1930)
12. Hoovercrats
13. Immigration
restrictions
14. Jazz Singer
15. KKK
16. Langston Hughes
17. Lost Generation
18. Marcus Garvey
19. Sacco & Vanzetti
20. Welfare Capitalism
Chapter 23: The Great Depression
1. Is it fair to characterize President Hoover as the “do
nothing” president in the face of the economic
emergency?
2. In what ways did the New Deal coalition and the social
programs it developed change the character of
American politics?
3. What was the impact of the New Deal on women
4. What was the impact of the New Deal on AfricanAmericans?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
“Soak the Rich” Tax
21st Amendment
AAA
Bank Holiday
Bonus March
Brain Trust
CCC
Court Packing
Dust Bowl
Economic Bill of
Rights
11. Emergency Banking
Relief Act
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
Francis Townsend
Hoover Dam
Huey Long
Keynesian Economics
Marian Anderson
New Deal Coalition
NIRA
Relief / Recovery /
Reform
25. Roosevelt Recession
26. Schechter Poultry
Corp. v. United States
27. Social Security Act
12. Fair Employment
Practices Commission
13. Father Coughlin
14. FDIC
15. First Hundred Days
16. Frances Perkins
28. Social-Welfare
Liberalism
29. Treaty of Relations
(Cuba/1934)
30. TVA
31. Wagner Act
32. WPA
Chapter 24: The World at War
1. Why did the United States wait until after 1941, after
nearly every European nation had fallen to Germany,
to enter WWII?
2. Overall, what sort of impact—positive or negative—did
World War II have on women and minority groups in
the United States?
3. Why was there tension among the Allies during the
war, and what long-term impact did it have?
4. What were the major sentiments of the isolationists?
The interventionists?
1.
2.
12/7/41
America First
Committee
3. Atlantic Charter
4. Bombers for Bases
5. Bracero Program
6. Coral Sea
7. D-Day
8. Fair Employment
Practices Committee
9. Four Freedoms
Speech
10. Good Neighbor
Policy
11. Hiroshima &
Nagasaki
12. Island Hopping in
the Pacific
13. Japanese Interment
14. Korematsu v. United
States
15. Lend-lease
16. Manhattan Project
17. Munich Conference
18. Nye Committee
19. Potsdam Conference
20. Quarantine Speech
(1937)
21. Rationing
22. Rosie the Riveter
23. SS St. Louis
24. Teheran Conference
25. Yalta Conference
26. Zoot-suit riot
Chapter 25: The Cold War
1. What was the domestic impact of the anti-Communist
crusade of the late 1940s and 1950s?
2. What were the origins of the State’s Rights Party (1948)
and what was its impact?
3. How were the ideas of George F. Kennan reflected in
Truman’s Cold War policies?
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2.
3.
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17.
Army-McCarthy
Hearings
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Airlift
CIA coups: Iran,
Guatemala
Containment Policy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dixiecrats
Domino Theory
Dynamic
Conservatism
Eisenhower Doctrine
McCarthyism
MAD
NATO
New Frontier
New Look
NSC-68
Nuclear Test-ban
treaty (1963)
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
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28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
Rosenbergs
SEATO
Sputnik
Suez Crisis
Fair Deal
Geneva Accords
George Kennan
Ho Chi Minh
House Committee on
Un-American
Activities (HUAC)
Hungary—Soviet
invasion; US response
Loyalty Oaths
Loyalty Review Board
Marshall Plan
NSC-68
Taft-Hartley Act
Truman Doctrine
U2 Incident
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Chapter 26:Triumph of The Middle Class
1. What accounts for the economic prosperity of the
postwar era?
2. Who were some of the social critics, non-conformists,
and cultural rebels? Why are they important
3. What were some of the important changes in science,
technology, and medicine?
4. In what ways were the 1920s and 1950s similar?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Baby Boom
Betty Friedan
Bracero Program
Bretton Woods
Death of a Salesman,
GI Bill
Invisible Man, Ralph
Ellison
10. National Interstate
Highway Act
11. On the Road, Jack
Kerouac
12. Sit-coms—1950’s
style
13. Sunbelt
14. The Common Sense
8.
9.
Levittown
Military-Industrial
Complex
Book of Baby and
Child Care, Benjamin
Spock
15. The Crack in the
Picture Window, John
Keats
16. The Lonely Crowd,
David Riesman
Chapter 27: The Civil Rights Movement
1. In what ways did World War II and the Cold War help
advance the cause of civil rights?
2. How did the NAACP go about developing a legal strategy
3. to attack racial segregation?
4. What developments in American society helped to make
the racial revolution of the 1950s and 1960s possible?
5. What actions did the federal government undertake in
support of racial change?
6. What is the difference between de jure and de facto
segregation?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Battle of Birmingham
(1963)
Fair Employment
Practices Commission
Freedom Riders
Greensboro Sit-ins
Black Panthers
Black Power
Bloody Sunday
Brown v. Board of
Education
Central High School,
Little Rock, AR
Cesar Chavez
Civil Rights Act
(1957)
Civil Rights Act
(1964)
CORE
14. Declaration of
Constitutional
Principles
15. Double V Campaign
16. Edmund Pettus
Bridge
17. Emmett Till
18. Malcolm X
19. March on
Washington (1963)
20. Montgomery Bus
Boycott
21. Southern Manifesto
22. Student Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)
23. Thurgood Marshall
24. Twenty-fourth
Amendment
25. Voting Rights Act
(1965)
Chapter 29—The Search for Order in an Era of Limits
1. Why is the United States' involvement in the Vietnam
War so often called a “quagmire”?
2. What was LBJ’s “guns and butter” dilemma?
3. Was 1968 a “watershed year”?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Betty Friedan & The
Feminine Mystique
Détente
Free
Speech
Movement
George Wallace
Tonkin
Gulf
Resolution
Hawks & Doves
Immigration
Act
(1965)
My Lai Massacre
NOW
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Silent Majority
Southern Strategy
Stonewall
Summer
of
Love
(1967)
Tet Offensive
Title IX
United Farm Workers
Vietnamization
War on Poverty
Watergate
Chapter 30—Conservative America Ascendant
1. What were the major differences between the New
Right and the traditional conservative program of the
Republican Party?
2. Why did the United States intervene in the conflicts
between Iraq and Iran, and between Iraq and Kuwait?
1.
2.
Barry Goldwater
Iran-Contra
3. Jerry Falwell
4.
Mikhail Gorbachev
5. Phyllis Schlafly
6. Reagan Coalition
Chapter 31: Global Society
7. Regan Doctrine
8. Reganomics
9. Religious Right
10. Sandra Day O’Connor
11. Star Wars