Midterm Exam REVIEW

US History II
CHAPTERS TO REVIEW
Chapter 14 Big Business/ Labor Movements
Chapter 13.3 Populist movement
Chapter 18 Imperialism/ Foreign Policy
Scabs
Philanthropist
Blacklist
Carnegie
Thomas Nast
Social Darwinism
Horizontal & Vertical Integration
Ruthless business tactics used
Knights of Labor
Tammany Hall
Political machine
Ethnic neighborhoods
Urbanization
New Colossus/Emma Lazarus
Nativism
Ellis & Angel Island
William Jennings Bryan
Gold bugs/ silverites/ Wizard of Oz
Susan B. Anthony
Seneca Falls
Muckrakers
Trustbuster
How the Other Half Lives
Progressive Presidents:
Teddy Roosevelt
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Election of 1912
Modern presidency
Imperialism v. Isolationism
Spanish American War
(causes/dates/events)
Rough Riders
Platt Amendment
Big Stick Diplomacy/ New Diplomacy/
Roosevelt Corollary
Moral/missionary Diplomacy
Foraker Act
John Hay/ Open Door Policy (notes)
Franz Ferdinand

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Chapter 15 Urbanization/Immigration
Chapter 17 Progressive Movement
Chapter 19 World War I
Monopoly
Gilded Age
Rockefeller
Morgan
Bessemer Process
Robber baron v. Capt of Industry
Anti-trust policies
AFL
Graft
Boss Tweed
Old v. new immigrants
Tenements
Settlement houses
Push/pull factors of immigration
Pogroms
Issues with urbanization
Cross of Gold
Womens suffrage/ goals/organizations
Alice Paul
19th amendment
Progressivism
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle
Acts/legislation passed during the
progressive era
Bully pulpit
Bull Moose Party
Reasons for imperialism
President McKinley
USS Maine
Imperialism territories
Dollar Diplomacy
Jingoism
Alfred Mahan
WWI- MAIN reasons
powder keg

Midterm Exam REVIEW

US History II
Causes for US entry into WWI
Uboats
Schlieffen Plan
Propaganda (US during WWI)
Trench warfare
New weapons of WWI

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Zimmerman Note
Lusitania
Treaty of Versailles
Victory Gardens
Stalemate
Blockades

** Political Cartoon Analysis & Primary Source Analysis

** Article, active reading & questions
POSSIBLE EXTENDED RESPONSES:
EXPECTATIONS:
INTRO (ROADMAP), THESIS, SUPPORT OF THESIS (HISTORICAL EVIDENCE)
ORGANIZATION/GRAMMAR, & CONCLUSION
1. Pretend you are an immigrant in the early 1900s who is living in lower Manhattan. Tell us
your story. Keep in mind that just because this is first person YOU MUST INCLUDE
HISTORICAL CONTENTSPECIFIC HISTORY FACTS !!!!
What were the reasons for leaving your country?
Why did you choose to come to the United States instead of other countries?
What is life like for you in the big city? (For this part be sure to discuss some of the problems
and issues with urbanization.)
2. World War I, originally known as the Great War, was something people had never experienced
before. In what ways was the war different from earlier wars? THINK ABOUT:
Weapons used in the war (variety & new)
Nations involved in the fighting (how many and why)
People who lost their lives or those that lost loved ones
Where the fighting took place, impact it had on the terrain/land