US  HISTORY--Examination  1  Review

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EXAMINATION 1 REVIEW
US HISTORY SINCE 1865
 
 This will be your first examination.  It will cover events from chapter 17 to 19 in your text.
 
Since this is the first examination most of you will be taking in my class, I thought that it would be useful to go over what you could expect on my test.  Although I do allow you to retake one exam this semester, I hope that you won't need to exercise that option on the first exam.
 
Your examination will be part multiple choice AND matching.  You will need to bring to class with you a pencil and a Scantron sheet.
 







Things you should know:
 
Chapter 17—Big Business and Organized Labor:
You should know:
  • What contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution in the US
  • The role of the Railroads in the late 19th century
  • What led to the concept of big business
  • Captains of Industry—Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan
  • What led to worker protest
  • Great Railroad strike of 1877
  • Early labor movements—Knights of Labor
  • Haymarket Riot
  • Homestead Strike/Pullman Strike
  • Socialist movements in the US
 
Chapter 18:  The New South and New West.
You should know:
  • The notion of the “New South” and Henry W. Grady
  • Conditions of Tenancy and Sharecropping
  • The rise of the Bourbon class in the south
  • Disfranchising African-American and imposing “Jim Crow” laws/Segregation
  • Booker  T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The migration to the West—i.e. “Exoduser”
  • The Indians Wars
  • Rise and Conditions of Mining in the West
  • Rise and fall of the Cattle Kingdom
  • The impact of the Railroad on the West
  • Farming and the end of the open range
 
Chapter 19—Urban America, Political Stalemate, and Rural Revolt:
You should know:
  • What led to the rise of large cities in the US
  • How cities coped with growth
  • Be able to describe life in the cities
  • Discuss the experience of the new immigrant to the US and nativist reaction to the new immigrant
  • Social changes brought about by education and new philosophical trends (Darwinism & Social Darwinism)
  • Social Reform—Social Gospel—Settlement houses
  • Women’s suffrage
  • What was the Gilded Age
  • Nature of Politics during the Gilded Age—i.e. presidency; equilibrium of political parties; role of third parties; what voter turn-out was like and why; and the major issues (political corruption and the tariff)
  • The issues of the Hayes administration—civil service reform, division of the Republicans, why Hayes did not run for a second term.
  • Garfield and Arthur administrations—Assassination of Garfield; Arthur’s support of civil service reform and tariff reform.
  • Election of 1884 and Cleveland’s first administration—issues of the election and Cleveland’s views on government, civil service reform, Union veterans’ pensions, railroad regulation, and tariff reform
  • Harrison administration—Veterans’ benefits, Sherman Anti-Trust act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and McKinley Tariff
  • The farmers’ problems and agrarian movements—Grangers, Farm Alliances, Greenback Party and Populists (People’s Party)
  • Currency issue and Silver movement
  • Election of 1896—First modern election, role of populists, silver issue, and “New Era”
 
 
TERMS:
  1. Presidential Reconstruction
  2. Congressional Reconstruction
  3. Freedman’s Bureau
  4. Black Codes
  5. Civil Rights Act
  6. Tenure in Office Act
  7. Wade-Davis Act
  8. Carpetbaggers
  9. Panic of 1873
  10. Compromise of 1877
  11. Henry W. Grady
  12. The Duke family of North Carolina
  13. The Bourbons
  14. Mississippi Plan
  15. Plessy v. Ferguson
  16. Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois
  17. Exodusers
  18. Battle of the Little Bighorn
  19. A Century of Dishonor
  20. Dodge City
  21. Daws Severalty Act
  22. Transcontinental Railroad
  23. “Robber Barons”
  24. Molly Maguires
  25. Anarchism
  26. Samuel Gompers
  27. Eugene Debs
  28. IWW
  29. Contract Labor Law 1864
  30. Ellis Island
  31. American Protective Association
  32. Social Darwinism
  33. Salvation Army
  34. Jane Addams/Hull House
  35. Susan B. Anthony
  36. Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
  37. Pendleton Civil Service Act
  38. Bland-Allison Act
  39. Mongrel Tariff
  40. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
  41. Granger Movement
  42. Farmers’ Alliance
  43. Mary Elizabeth Lease
  44. Silverites and Goldbugs
  45. William Jennings Bryan