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Name: _________________________________________ Period: ______ U.S. History Mid-Term Study Guide 2013-2014 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 McCormick reaper New Industrial Age, Immigration, Urbanization Chapter 6, 7 What is Urbanization? New technology o Electricity o Bessemer Process o Types of communication 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? Social Darwinism William Tweed Jacob Riis Thomas Nast Eugene V. Debs Standardized Time Patronage Row House Credit Mobilier Nativism Haymarket Square Scabs Strike Yellow Journalism Frederick Law Olmsted Development of the department stores What was a ‘company town’? Labor Unions What were the main goals of the Populist Party? Laissez-faire economics Pendleton Act What was the Gilded Age? Political Machine Political Graft Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen’s agreement Immigration Act of 1924 Ellis Island Angel Island How did the introduction of the bicycle affect women’s lives? 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? Monroe Doctrine Open Door Policy Platt Amendment Describe how the United States came to build the Panama Canal Teddy Roosevelt What did Teddy Roosevelt do to help preserve nature? Why did Teddy Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize? “speak softly and carry a big stick” 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 / “Oregon System” 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? What impact did the British naval blockade have on Germany? 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? Why did the Unites States Senate not ratify the Treaty of Versailles? Doughboys Schlieffen Plan How did World War 1 affect people’s lives on the ‘home front’ (civilians in the U.S.)? Why did the Unites States Senate not ratify the Treaty of Versailles? The Roaring 1920’s Prohibition Flapper Harlem Renaissance Scopes Trial Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s The Red Scare Speakeasies Installment plan Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh Admiral Byrd Teapot Dome Scandal The Great Migration Describe Warren G. Harding as president Borrowing on Margin
