2112 Maymester Midterm Study Guide

Identifications:
Remember to describe the term/concept but also include its importance and historical significance.

1. American Exceptionalism
2. Lincoln’s Assassination
3. Lincoln’s 10% plan
4. Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stevens, and the Wade Davis Bill
5. Andrew Johnson
6. Freedmen’s Bureau and O.O. Howard
7. Black Codes
8. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
9. 13th Amendment
10. 14th Amendment
11. 15th Amendment
12. Reconstruction Act of 1867
13. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
14. African Americans in a Reconstruction Era Government
15. The Grant Administration
16. Panic of 1873
17. Election of 1872 and Horace Greeley
18. Election of 1876 and Rutherford B. Hayes
19. Compromise of 1877 and the legacy of Reconstruction
20. Gilded Age
21. Political Machines, Government, and Immigration
22. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
23. Uncharismatic presidents
24. Kickbacks and Sandbagging
25. Immigrant groups
26. Yankee Ingenuity and Inventions
27. Telephone and Hello Girls
28. U.S. takes the Industrial lead
29. Thomas Edison
30. Railroad Revolution, time zones, gauges, laborers, Transcontinental line
31. Pirates of the Rails (Vanderbilt, Gould)
32. Carnegie and U.S. Steel
33. J.P. Morgan and banking
34. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
35. Corporations, Monopolies, Horizontal/Vertical Integration, and the law
36. Big Business: Promotion of Capitalism or Threat to Democracy?
37. Big Businessmen and Distribution of Wealth
38. Grangers and Granger Laws
39. I.C.C. and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
40. Haymarket Square Riot
41. Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, and Gospel of Success
42. Horatio Alger
43. Philanthropy and Conspicuous Consumption
44. Women and Children in the work force
45. Urbanization
46. Working Conditions
47. Labor Organization: AFL, Molly Maguires, Knights of Labor
48. Strikes and violence
49. Industrialization and Immigration
50. Chinese Exclusion Act
51. Melting Pot or Tossed Salad effect
52. Public Transportation
53. Jane Addams, the Hull House, and Settlement Houses
54. Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and skyscrapers
55. Brooklyn Bridge- Construction, Symbolism, and Practical realities
56. Evils of the City: Health, Sanitation, Vice, and Crime
57. Dumbbell Tenements
58. Destruction of Indian culture, livestock and the end of the Open Plains
59. Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of Little Big Horn
60. Geronimo
61. Century of Dishonor
62. Dawes Severalty Act (1887) Carlisle School, and effect of assimilation
63. Battle of Would Knee, Chief Joseph, and the end of Indian Resistance
64. The Wild Wild West- myths, heroes, and mining
65. Hard Times for farmers
66. The money issue: Goldbugs, Silverites, and Greenbacks
67. The Populist Party and hopes for political reform
68. William Jennings Bryan and “The Cross of Gold”
69. Imperialism
70. Progressive Movement
71. Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist arguments
72. Seward’s Ice Box
73. Spanish American War
74. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
75. Cuba and the Platt Amendment
76. Yellow Journalism
77. Hawaii, Queen Lily, Sanford B. Dole, and annexation
78. Philippine Insurrection
79. Policies and event in China
80. Acquisition of the canal zone, and building of the Panama Canal
81. Big Stick Diplomacy
82. Mass entertainment, sports, and new issues of health and hygiene
83. Participants of Progressive America and causes of the reform movement
84. Government involvement, public awareness, media attention of exploitative practices and unacceptable conditions
85. Muckrakers (Riis, Sinclair, Tarbell, etc.)
86. The Jungle
87. Bob La Follette
88. Labor Unions and the Wobblies
89. Eugene Debs for president
90. Women’s causes and the Suffragette movement
91. Teddy the Trustbuster? Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt

Possible Discussion Questions:

The following are possible discussion questions for the first exam in American History II. Remember that a five paragraph response is not mandatory, but more than one paragraph may be needed to fully answer the question. Complete sentences, capitalization, and punctuation are a must. Also remember to answer the question using specific evidence to back up your overall answer. Good sources for specific information/evidence can be found in your text, your notes, and the identification list.

1. Was reconstruction a success or a failure? Use specific evidence to back up your answer.

2. How does the Gilded Age reflect the contradictions represented by the concept of American Exceptionalism?

3. Describe changes that the Industrial Revolution and immigration brought to Northern urban centers.

4. Explain U.S. military/political policy toward native americans (1865-1900) and the results of such policies on Native Americans.

5. Why are the multi-millionaires and political bosses more well known than our presidents from Johnson to McKinley?

6. How did big businessmen create monopolies? Give examples of actual monopolies to explain your answer?

7. Compare life for former slaves 1865-1877 and compare it with post Reconstruction.

8. How did technology and transportation change American life at the turn of the century? How did it affect farmers specifically?

9. Analyze the myth and reality of the Wild Wild West.

10. What led to American imperialism and what factors were involved in the creation of an American "empire" ?

11. Explain the goals and outcomes of the Progressive movement.

12. Analyze the changing role of journalism. Include both positive and negative influences on society based on overall nonexistent standards of reliability as well as investigative journalism. Give specific examples to support your answer.

13. Explain the roles of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson in the Progressive movement.