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APUSH Syllabus
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5/22 - After watching the LEQ video, APUSH students need to review the scoring guidelines per the LEQ. Review each of the various LEQ's provided and analyze the student samples. Once you've done this, take a look at the scoring breakdown for each of the essays to understand how the student did/did not meet expectations.
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Document Based Question Basis:
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5/21 - After watching the DBQ video, APUSH students need to review the scoring guidelines per the DBQ. Review each of the various DBQ's provided and analyze the student samples. Once you've done this, take a look at the scoring breakdown for each of the essays to understand how the student did/did not meet expectations.
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Short Answer Questions:
5/23 - After watching the SAQ video, APUSH students need to take a look at the provided practice exams below. Pay particular attention to the SAQ portion near the end, but certainly look at the multiple choice as well. GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!
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Resources for Multiple Choice:
Albert AP Online: https://www.albert.io/ap-us-history
Gilder-Lehrmen Institute for American History: APUSH
Tom Ritchey
Midterm Review:
Test Prep:
Chapter 1 Review (Early Colonies)
1. What land bridge allowed for early settlement of the north American continent?
2. Most Native American religions had a deep connection with what?(What is this known as?) 3.Describe at least three early Native American cultures, and their economies. 4. What were the 3 G's that pushed early colonization by European powers? Who were the dominant European colonizing powers? 5.What were the several "trade-off's" of the Colombian Exchange? (Provide several examples) 6. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do to the new world? 7. Describe the Encomienda system. 8. What are Mestizo's and Mullato's? 9. What caused the Pueblo's to revolt in 1680? 10. Compare and contrast the viewpoints of Sepulveda vs. de las casas in treatment of native peoples. |
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Chapter 2 Review (Southern Colonies)
1. What is a joint-stock company or corporate colony? How does this differ from a royal colony or a proprietorship?
2. Which colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh? did it succeed? 3. Describe the various facets of the Chesapeake colonies? (settlement, economies, governments, labor force, REBELLIONS...bacon, native american relations) 4. Why was Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion so impact full in extending an African Slavery system/Triangle trade? 5. Who founded Maryland? What type of colony was Maryland? What ACT allowed for peace between Catholics and Protestants in Maryland? 6. What were a few of the "cash crops" of the S.Carolina economy? 7. Who settled the Georgia colony? |
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Chapter 3 Review (New England/Middle Colonies)
1. Many who came to New England came for what reason?
2. The Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther) created a growing tension with what religious group who founded Plymouth? 3. What governmental system was established under the Mayflower Compact? 4. John Winthrop established what Royal Colony in the Massachusetts Bay colony area? What was his idea of a "City upon a hill"? 5. Some dissented from Winthrop's views. What other Massachusetts colonies were formed by dissenters? 6. Most Massachusetts bay colonies dealt with native american populations by exterminating them from their areas. What native American leader staged a unified uprising against the colonies? What was important about this particular uprising by Native Americans? 7. Before New York was New York......it was____ ____ and controlled by the Dutch. 8. What colony was founded for religious freedom? Who founded this colony? 9. How did the New England colonies economies differ from the Southern Colonies/Chesapeake Bay Colonies? (use the next video to help with this too [Ch. 4-5]) 10. ALL of the colonies operated under a mercantilism system. What does this mean? 11. What was salutary neglect? How does this help to establish ideas of colonial independence? 12. How did the NAVIGATION ACTS reestablish English control over the colonies? (list the several facets) 13. What did Sir Edmund Andros enforce upon the colonists under the Dominion of New England? |
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Chapter 4-5 Review (English Colonial Society)
1. What is the Triangular Trade Route? What good were moved & where? What was the middle passage?
2. What was the Stono Uprising? How did this lead to stricter "black codes" for slaves in the South? 3. What was the GREAT AWAKENING (first great awakening)? In addition to the creation of many colleges, it also developed the idea of doing what between government and the church? 4. How did the Glorious Revolution affect the Dominion of New England? 5. Again, what were some impactful examples of early colonial governments. (list several...they'll be on the test) 6. What excluded people from voting or being part of colonial governments? (more than one) 7. How did the Zenger case allow for American Colonists to begin speaking out against the government? |
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Chapter 6 Review (French & Indian War)
1. The British Colonies major competition in regards to colonization of north america was with _____________.
2. What was the proposed purpose of the Albany Plan of Union? Was the plan to unite the colonies successful? 3. What treaty effectively kicks France out of N.America? 4. Who's rebellion against colonial expansion past the Appalachian mountains brought about British action? 5. What did the British establish to stop colonial expansion past the Appalachian mountains? What was the colonial feeling about this policy? 6. What were the opposing views between the British and colonists on N.America following the French and Indian War? |
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Chapter 7 Review (Road to Revolution)
1. What Acts were passed by the British against the colonies to increase funds to pay for the French & Indian War? How did the colonists react to these and the Quartering Act?
2. What groups formed in opposition to these British taxes/actions? 3. What did the Townshend Act do upon the colonies? 4. John Dickinson went against these taxes by starting the argument of........."______ _______________ without _________________"! 5. What action by British troops against colonists in 1770 began to galvanize colonial distrust of the crown of England? 6. Why did colonists resist the Tea Act with such fervor? The Act allowed for the British East India company to form a ___________________. How did the Son's of Liberty revolt against the tax in 1773? 7. What punitive measures came about through the Coercive Acts? 8. What distaste did colonists have against the Quebec Act? 9. The 1st Continental Congress argued against what in the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances"? 10. The opening shots of the American Revolution occurred during the Battles of ___________________ & __________________________. |
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Chapter 8 Review (American Revolution)
1. After the Battles of Lexington & Concord, colonists sent what petition to King George III?
2. The roots of revolution in the colonies were fueled by which enlightenment ideas professed by what philosophers? 3. What were the goals of the Declaration of Independence? 4. What successful battle gained necessary support from France for the colonial cause? What U.S. diplomats were sent to France to rally support? 5. What were the original boundaries of the U.S. established under the Treaty of Paris 1783? 6. Impacts of the American Revolution: (many) Social- Political- Economic- 7. What was the idea of Republican Motherhood? |
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Chapter 9 Review (Articles of Confederation/Constitution)
1. What were commonalities between the various state constitutions following the revolution?
2. What principle establishes power of government by the people? 3. The Articles of Confederation was this nation's first system of government. What were the strengths as well as numerous weaknesses of the Articles? 4. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 divided the northwest territory into how many states? What was abolished in these new states? 5. What military weakness was noticed through Shay's Rebellion? 6. What topics were discussed at the Annapolis Convention? 7. The Constitutional Convention was called to redress the Articles....was this accomplished? 8. Virginia Plan- 9. New Jersey Plan- 10. Great Compromise- 11. What compromise dealt with increasing representation for southern states? 12. What year was the slave trade supposed to end? 13. Federalists- 14. Anti-Federalists- 15. Federalism- |
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Chapter 10 Review (Washington & Adams)
1. What structure did the Judiciary Act establish?
2. Describe the basic structures/parts of Hamilton's Financial Plan: - - - 3. What were the first political parties in the U.S., and what ideas did they support? 4. Washington threatened to march on Pennsylvania to squash what rebellion? What was the cause of the rebellion? 5. How did the Jay Treaty and Pinckney Treaty help the U.S. utilize the Great Lakes and Mississippi River? 6. Washington's farewell address tells the nation to avoid what? 7. What was the X, Y , Z affair? 8. What nativist and nationalistic Acts were passed by the Adams administration? 9. What is nullification? |
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Chapter 11 Review (Age of Jefferson)
1. The Revolution of 1800 refers to what?
2. Federalists tried to fill new Judgeships using the Judicial Act. This caused what case that establishes Judicial Review? What does this mean as a HUGE power of the courts? 3. What major land purchase did Jefferson enact, thus expanding the power of the Executive office? What are implied powers? 4. Jefferson differed from Hamilton in his view of what our nation's economy should be comprised of. Jefferson viewed the U.S. as a nation of _______________________. 5. Which two explorers mapped the Louisiana Purchase? 6. What caused the dual between Hamilton and Aaron Burr? 7. What did Jefferson's Embargo Act help to spur in the northern states? 8. William Henry Harrison successfully defeated what famous native american war hero? Why did these military skirmishes cause U.S. resentment toward Britain? |
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Chapter 12 Review (War of 1812)
1. Is the War of 1812 seen as a U.S. victory? why/why not?
2. What famous battle fought nearly two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent made Andrew Jackson famous? 3. Northeastern Federalists talked of secession in the? What idea does this supplant in southerners? 4. What were some of the BAD FEELINGS during the Era of Good Feelings? 5. Describe Henry Clay's "American System". 6. What was perhaps the most beneficial internal transportation system under the American System, and opens the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean? 7. How did the Tallmadge Amendment anger southern states? How did the Missouri Compromise seek to stop these tensions? 8. Gibbons v. Ogden ruled that the federal government could be laissez-unfair by regulating what?.......it's all good though, this also helps Kennedy integrate busing in the South. 9. The U.S. acquired Florida through what treaty? Who forced this treaty to be passed by raids into the Spanish held territory? How does this action further expand his popularity? 10. What is the Monroe Doctrine?...This is HUGE for future U.S. Imperialism under Teddy Roosevelt and his Corollary. |
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Chapter 13 Review (Age of Jackson)
1. What is the "corrupt bargain" that is struck to put John Quincy Adams into the Presidency? Who had the popular vote but lost the Presidency?
2. What was the democratization of American society? How did this aid Jackson in the 1828 election? 3. What is the Spoils System/Patronage? What are the problems with this system that tarnishes future administrations and leads to political corruption during the gilded age? 4. What did South Carolina with John C. Calhoun try to nullify? Why? How did Jackson plan to end the crisis? How did Henry Clay end the crisis? 5. What did Jackson do to Native Americans as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830? How did John C. Marshall react to this under Worcester v. Georgia? Does Jackson enforce the courts ruling (do his job)? 6. How does Jackson cause an economic panic in his opposition to Henry Clay? 7. In 1836, Texas declares independence from Mexico so they could keep their ____________________. What does this cause? 8. In the election of 1840, who was the first Whig President and shortest serving President in history? |
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Chapter 14 Review (The Market Revolution)
1. Describe the economic zones of our country during the early 1800's.
2. What push and pull factors caused a spike in immigration during the 1800's in the U.S.? (provide economic, political, environmental, & social factors) Where did most immigrants coming for economic factors tend to settle? 3. What political machines will prey upon immigrants for votes? 4. What nativism developed as a result of growing ethnic diversity? 5. Samuel Slater brought about what system to northeastern areas? 6. Samuel Morse created a system for communication known as the ______________________. 7. What problems were faced by "wage slaves" in northern industrial cities? Describe the Lowell system. 8. Commonwealth V. Hunt allowed for the development of ____________________________. 9. Cornelius Vanderbilt first established his fortune using what invention by Robert Fulton? 10. Describe how canals and the railroad aided the expansion of businesses in the U.S. 11. What mechanized farming tools vastly increased the food supply while simultaneously reducing the workforce of rural areas? 12. Why did Eli Whitney's cotton gin expand the slave system? 13. Describe the "Cult of Domesticity", and relate it to Republican Motherhood. |
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Chapter 15 Review (Age of Reform)
1. What was Deism? How did Deism and Unitarianism challenge the religious norm of the age (Calvinism & Predestination)?
2. What movements were inspired as a result of the Second Great Awakening? 3. Joseph Smith forms what new religion in the U.S.? Where did the leaders of this religion take their followers? What issue delayed their statehood? 4. Dorothy Dix sought to change the nature of what? 5. The idea of free and public education came about by way of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. What reasons brought about this system of education? 6. What movement sought to end alcohol in the U.S.? What were the several reasons why they wanted to end drinking in the U.S.? What amendment was adopted to end alcohol in the U.S.? 7. How did women begin to challenge the Cult of Domesticity and Republican Motherhood? 8. The Seneca Falls Convention began what movement? 9. What was Transcendentalism? What famous authors pushed this movement? 10. What Utopian communities existed during this age? |
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Chapter 16 Review (The South and Slavery)
1. What sectional debates/conflicts were created as a result of the issue of slavery?
2. The pre-civil war period in U.S. history is referred to as ___________________________. 3. How was the South an oligarchy? (4 Groups) 4. Following 1808, slavery restrictions within the U.S. created a ___________________ slave system where slaves were treated as property. What book showcased the horrors of this system to the masses and largely created an abolitionist movement? 5. What did slaves do to show resistance? 6. List at least two famous abolitionist leaders. 7. George Fitzhugh supports the slavery argument with what claims? |
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Chapter 17 Review (Manifest Destiny)
1. Which President finally brings the Republic of Texas into the Union of States?
2. What idea professes that it is our destiny to conquer the continent? How is this policy also Anglo-Saxon? 3. 54/40 or fight was the argument for annexing ____________________. 4. Why was the Wilmot-Proviso so controversial in regard to Texas? 5. What did the U.S. gain as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo? |
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Chapter 18 Review (Sectional Struggle)
1. What was the free-soil movement all about?
2. What is discovered bear Sutter's Mill in 1848? California asks for admission into the U.S. as a ______________ state? 3. Who were the fire-eaters? What did the Compromise of 1850 do to calm tensions between slave & free states? 4. In what ways did northerners oppose fugitive slave laws? 5. What was the Gadsden Purchase? Why did we buy this stretch from Mexico? 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed the idea of popular sovereignty. What does this cause (What is bleeding Kansas)? {maybe use the next video too} |
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Chapter 19 Review (Drifting Toward Disunion)
1. What book galvanized northerners against the fugitive slave act?
2. What party is formed as an opposition party to extending slavery? 3. What did crazy John Brown do at Pottawatomie Creek? 4. What occurs to Charles Sumner due to his opposition to the Kansas violence? 5. The Dred Scott decision's verdict was that African Americans were.............? (Boo Tawney Court) 6. How does the Harper's Ferry situation escalate southern opposition to the North and the Republican party? 7. The election of 1860 truly became an election for or against what? What wins Lincoln the Presidency? This causes 7 southern states to? 8. Did James Buchanan stop secession? This is why we refer to him as a...._______ _________ President. |
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THE CIVIL WAR REVIEW
1. What were the several causes of the Civil War? (many)
2. The Civil War officially begins on April 12th, 1861 with an attack on...? 3. What did the policy of conscription cause in New York city? (this could be a continuity ? with Vietnam War college deferment) 4. What was a Copperhead? 5. The Anaconda Plan successfully restricted what? 6. The bloodiest day of war in American history was? What did Lincoln issue as a result of this battle? Why did this not officially end slavery outright? What does? 7. What did Clara Barton successfully found during the Civil War? 8. The time period after the Civil War is known as? |
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Chapter 22 Review (Reconstruction)
1. What were the Key Challenges facing the U.S. Government following the Civil War?
2. What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau? Successes/Failures 3. Was Lincoln's plan of AMNESTY ever provided to the South following his assassination? What was the Wade-Davis Bill's provisions? 4. What did Johnson provide to many former confederate leaders? How does this affect his relations with Congress? 5. What did the 13th Amendment allow for? 6. What are black codes? Provide 3 examples of black codes. 7. What system of labor replaced slavery in the South during Reconstruction? 8. Congressional/Military Reconstruction was led by the Republican party, and did what to the South? (i.e. Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Military rule in South, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1875) 9. What measures did Congress initiate in order to impeach Andrew Johnson? (hint...Edwin Stanton) 10. Who were Scalawags and Carpet Baggers? 11. Did the federal government strictly enforce most of the various Acts, Bills, and Supreme Court decisions of the Reconstruction Era? |
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Chapter 23 Review (Gilded Age)
1. What gained Grant the vote in the 1867 Election?
2. Why was Grant's Presidency a failed term in office? 3. What caused the Panic of 1873? 4. What was the COMPROMISE OF 1877? How did this end Reconstruction? 5. How did the Supreme Courts striking down of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 allow for Jim Crow Laws to be established? Provide examples of Jim Crow Laws: 6. Plessy v Ferguson established what doctrine followed in the U.S. until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965? 7. What disenfranchisement plagued African American voters? 8. Immigration was first limited by race with what Act? 9. Gilded Age Presidents mainly came from what political party that supported business growth and GDP over social welfare initiatives? 10. The assassination of what Northeast Ohio President largely ended the patronage system? Which Act required Civil Service Exams? |
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Chapter 24 Review ( Industrial Revolution)
1. What inventions aided the advancement of the Industrial Revolution?
2. The transcontinental railroad was established by what Act during the Lincoln administration? 3. How did the railroad expand consumption of consumer products? How did it affect uniformity of time? 4. What was Credit Mobilier? 5. What argument do farmers make against railways as we move toward the grange and populist movement? 6. How did the federal government enforce the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution in dealing with the Wabash v. Illinois case? Is the ICC laissez-faire? 7. Describe the basic structures of horizontal and vertical integration. 8. Social Darwinism is the belief that? What social philosopher advocated for this idea? How did the Gospel of Wealth differ from Social Darwinism? 9. What was the goal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? Unfortunately, earlier on it was used against...? 10. How did businesses actively work against unions? 11. What were a few large-scale unions? 12. What were a few of the MAJOR labor strikes? What did the government meet these strikes with? |
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Chapter 25 Review (Immigration & Cities)
1. What construction material allows for the nation to improve railroads and build skyscrapers? What Robber Baron?
2. What problems plagued urbanization (social, economic, political)? 3. What separated Old vs. New immigrants? What push and pull factors brought these immigrants to the U.S.? 4. What nativist movements sought to limit immigration (racial, economic, political, religious)? 5. Walter Rauschenbusch championed the theory of? What were the basic beliefs? 6. What female figure ushered in the settlement house movement? What famous location did she establish? 7. Booker T. Washington advocated for African Americans to gain _______________________________ for African Americans to reach equality. 8. W.E.B. DuBois helps to found the ______________. 9. What was the talented tenth? |
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Chapter 26 Review (Westward Expansion)
1. What were the basic structures of the Homestead Act that attracted several to move West?
2. What caused the cattle industry to boom during this age? 3. Many western territories gained statehood through what means? 4. What was the purpose(s) for depleting the bison? 5. List some of the major battles of the Indian Wars. 6. What system did the U.S. Government establish to assimilate native americans? 7. What were some of the problems faced by farmers during this time period? 8. What reforms were passed by the populists? |
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Chapter 27 Review (Imperialism)
1. Describe the several factors that pushed the U.S. toward expansion?
2. The Influence of Sea Power from 1660-1783 was Alfred T. Mahan's book that outlined the need for the U.S. to do what? 3. Josiah Strong pushed further Anglo-Saxonism by legitimizing it through what? 4. How did the U.S. acquire Hawaii? 5. How did Yellow Journalism push U.S. intervention in Cuba? 6. Although there are several more factors....What was the boat and the note that caused the Spanish-American War? 7. The Teller Amendment pledged what to Cuba? How will the Platt Amendment change this theory? 8. Why was the Spanish-American War a "splendid little war"? What did the Treaty of Paris cede to the U.S.? 9. What did the insular cases decide? 10. Why were the Philippines a "hot mess" following our war with Spain? 11. How does Teddy Roosevelt stage a revolution in order to build the Panama Canal? What style of diplomacy does this exhibit? 12. What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine profess? 13. What "gentlemen's agreement" does Roosevelt strike with Japan as he negotiates peace for the Russo-Japanese War? |
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Chapter 28 Review (Progressive Movement)
1. What types of people made up the Progressives? Who did they want to see fix the problems of society?
2. Name at least four Muckrakers, their focus, and what/how they improved society? 3. Who were the Progressive Presidents? What Progressive reforms did they usher in to society? 4. Was the Hepburn Act laissez-faire or laissez-unfair? why/why not? 5. What happened to the Republican vote in the 1912 election? 6. Which trust, enacted by Wilson, lowered tariffs? 7. How did Wilson reform banks? 8. Ida B. Wells helped to pass laws against what? 9. List the Progressive Amendments, and describe what each did. 10. (Paragraph Response) Describe your stance on the Progressive Era. Was it effective or ineffective? Why/Why not? |
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Chapter 28/29 Review (Wilson's Progressivism)
1. Who were the three major political parties in the 1912 election? Who wins? Why?
2. Produce a chart detailing the "New Freedom" and New Nationalism". 3. What Anti-Trust Act allowed Wilson to further combat monopolies? 4. List four separate progressive reforms passed under Wilson's administration: 5.Prior to Wilson dealing with WWI, he sent our U.S. forces where? For what reason? Success/failure? 6. M.A.I.N. Causes for WWI? 7. What reasons caused the U.S. to give up on neutrality? (several) 8. What reasons brought the U.S. into WWI? |
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Chapter 30 Review (14 points & Treaty of Versailles)
1. Wilson's proposal to end future wars was known as?
2. Provide at least 4 Ideas that were mentioned: - - - - 3. What international organization will Woodrow Wilson propose to ensure peace? 4. Did other allied leaders of the BIG 4 agree to Wilson's proposals? Why/Why not? 5. What damaging outcomes did the Treaty of Versailles have on Germany? |
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Roaring 20's Review
1. What was the "Red Summer" and what was its cause(s)?
2. How was the "Red Summer" different from the RED SCARE? 3. How did A. Mitchell Palmer perpetuate this RED SCARE? What organization will he develop? 4. What famous case showcased Nativist sentiments in the U.S. during the time period? 5. Harding won the Presidency under what slogan? What controversies plagued Warren G's administration? 6. What is SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS? What famous Treasury Secretary proposed this? 7. What unexpected outcome was caused by the passage of the 18th Amendment? 8. Who was John T. Scopes? What was the "Monkey Trial"? 9. What immigration acts limited peoples from entering the U.S.? What types of immigrants were we trying to restrict? 10. What movie helped to re-energize the KKK, an organization that skyrocketed in the 1920's? 11. What is the Harlem Renaissance? Who were a few of the famous African Americans who aided this movement? 12. What ideas did Marcus Garvey propose? 13. Who were the "Lost Generation" of writers? 14. What group within the U.S. during the 20's will forecast the upcoming depression of the 1930's due to overproduction and failing loan repayment? 15. What is a flapper? How does this figure as well as the youth culture of the 1920's challenge fundamentalist views? 16. How did speculation and margin aid in the crash of the stock market by October of 1929? 17. What was the unemployment level after the crash? 18. How did Henry Ford revolutionize the process for building the automobile? 19. What were the impacts of the automobile? |
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Great Depression Review
1. What is BLACK TUESDAY?
2. What was buying on Margin? How did this, along with speculation, inflate the stock market and ultimately begin the plummeting stock market? 3. What was the Dawes Plan? Why is the plan extremely foolish? 4. How many banks closed between Black Tuesday and when FDR took office? 5. What percentage of Ohioans were unemployed during the depression? 6. What is the DUST BOWL? What caused this phenomenon to happen? What Dorothea Lang photo depicts these "okies" plight? 7. During Hoover's Presidency, did he support direct federal government aid or job creation programs? 8. What were Hoovervilles? 9. What was the RFC? Why did it NOT work? 10. Who were the BONUS MARCHERS? Did they receive their bonuses? What did Hoover/Douglas MacArthur do to them? Where did Hoover send MacArthur as a result of this action? 11. What is FDR's plan for restoring the American economy? |
1. What is BLACK TUESDAY?
2. What was buying on Margin? How did this, along with speculation, inflate the stock market and ultimately begin the plummeting stock market? 3. What was the Dawes Plan? Why is the plan extremely foolish? 4. How many banks closed between Black Tuesday and when FDR took office? 5. What percentage of Ohioans were unemployed during the depression? 6. What is the DUST BOWL? What caused this phenomenon to happen? What Dorothea Lang photo depicts these "okies" plight? 7. During Hoover's Presidency, did he support direct federal government aid or job creation programs? 8. What were Hoovervilles? 9. What was the RFC? Why did it NOT work? 10. Who were the BONUS MARCHERS? Did they receive their bonuses? What did Hoover/Douglas MacArthur do to them? Where did Hoover send MacArthur as a result of this action? 11. What is FDR's plan for restoring the American economy? |
WWII Review
1. Why were Soviet leaders resentful of the U.S. and Great Britain prior to June of 1944? How might this lead to the Cold War?
2. How many casualties were there during WWII due to the Holocaust? 3. How did the labor movement during WWII discourage strikes? 4. A. Phillip Randolph threatened to organize what on Washington? What did this lead to by FDR? How did this affect MLK? 5. What did Navajo Indians do to aid during the war effort? 6. What percentage of women increased the amount of women in the workforce? What is a latchkey kid? 7. Executive Order 9066 established what? 8. A Western Front was established in Europe during WWII by way of the __________________ invasion. 9. What project led to the development of the first atomic bomb? 10. Why did the U.S. choose to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? |
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Cold War Review
1. What promises did Stalin make to the other allies at the Yalta Conference?
2. Who ultimately gains victory in the Chinese civil war? How does this affect the second red scare in the U.S.? 3. What policy did George Kenan describe? What Doctrine and what Plan came about after WWII as a result of Kenan's policy? 4. How did the allies deal with the Berlin Blockade? 5. What is the pledge of NATO? What organization does the Soviet Union form in opposition? 6. NSC-68 allows the U.S. economy to pledge more financial support toward what? 7. The Service Members Readjustment Act is better known as what? How did it help to create an Affluent society in the U.S. by the 1950's? 8. Executive Order 9981 effectively did what to the U.S. military, even before U.S. society? 9. Who are the opposing sides in the Korean War? What was the purpose of the war? Was this successful? 10. What is HUAC? Who were some individuals and groups HUAC was interested in? 11. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were tried and put to death for doing what? How will this increase fears in the U.S. of communism? 12. The second red scare in the U.S. is often referred to as _________________________ due to the Wisconsin Senator who increased communist fears in the U.S. |
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1950's Review
1. The affluent society of 1950's U.S. is referred to as an Economic Miracle. What helped to create this?
2. What is the generation born between 1946-1964 known as? 3. What vaccine was brought about by 1954? What spurred this vaccine? 4. Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring". What did this book investigate and expose? What changes come about during the 1970's in the United States as a result of this book? 5. Soviet space technology causes the United States to respond by creating NASA and the National Defense and Education Act. What were these measures meant to do? 6. This 1950's affluent society had what new consumer technologies to improve their homes? Where were their homes (Leavittown's)? What allowed them to get from their centers of work to these homes? What businesses grew as a result of this sprawl? 7. What is "white flight"? Who were left in cities? What did this do to urban taxable income levels? What effects will this begin to have on urban areas across the U.S.? 8. What was REPUBLICAN MOTHERHOOD (old concept)? How did the 1950's female adhere to this type of standard of what women were meant to be doing in the U.S.? 9. Much like the "Lost Generation" of writers during the 1920's criticized the boom times and consumer spending and entertainment, what did the "Beats" do during the 1950's? What would we refer to these people or groups as today? Does history repeat itself? 10. Increasing juvenile delinquency during the 1950's was blamed on what new popular music? 11. Who was the "Other America"? What were urban renewal projects? What are these same places referred to as today? 12. What was the outcome of Brown vs. Board of Education? Did all areas across the U.S. comply with the ruling? List and describe 3-4 actions in the South that showed opposition to the ruling. 13. Eisenhower decreased the number of U.S. troops and increased the number of U.S. nuclear weapons. How does this play into Massive Retaliation and Brinksmanship? 14. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? What similarities did this have with the Truman Doctrine? 15. What occurs in Cuba during Eisenhower's administration? What does the U.s. do in response? 16. Who is Francis Gary Powers? How did this increase tensions between the U.S. and USSR? |
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1960's Review
1. How did television affect the 1960 election?
2. What were the provisions of the New Frontier? (foreign & domestic policies, space race, etc.) 3. What event tarnished Kennedy's administration? 4. How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved? 5. Upon taking office after Kennedy's assassination, LBJ declares a war on...? What would this war be overshadowed by? 6. Finally, the Immigration and Neutrality Act of 1965 lifted bans on immigration in what ways? 7. How does Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" affect government legislation? 8. Compare and Contrast Kennedy and Johnson on the issue of Civil Rights. Kennedy: Johnson: 9. List at least two dramatic civil rights leaders, their methods for equality, and examples of these protests. 10. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish? 11. How did the Voting Rights Act and the 24th Amendment correct voting issues? 12. War powers were granted to LBJ under the....? 13. What N. Vietnamese attack caused a growing credibility gap in the U.S.? 14. What various movements occurred during the 1960's? (list at least four) |
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1970's Review
1. How did Nixon plan to end the Vietnam War?
2. What action by Nixon caused the Kent State protests? 3. Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. What effect did this have on the American public? What actions did Congress take as a result of these papers? 4. By 1975 what had occurred in Vietnam? 5. What is detente? What actions by the Nixon administration showcase this idea of detente? 6. What scandal ruined Nixon's, and ultimately led to his resignation? 7. What is stagflation? How does this hurt the Presidencies of Ford & Carter (mostly Carter)? 8. Why did the U.S. boycott the Olympic games in Moscow? 9. Carter's support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War resulted in what negative result? 10. Why was the U.S. embasy in Iran overrun and Americans taken hostage? How did this end? 11. What did Title 9 offer women? Roe V. Wade? 12. University of California v. Baake resulted in what verdict? 13. What was the ruling in Engle v Vitale? |
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