FINAL EXAM REVIEW

This exam has a total of 150 points that you can receive.  Each objective item (multiple choice, true / false, matching, etc.) is worth 1 point.  The open-ended section is worth 20 points.  Your numerical grade for the exam will be calculated using the following formula:

 

(Number of points earned)  /  (150)   X  100  =  your grade

 

Chapters to study:       10, 11, 12, 13, 14

 

 


1.        why did  some Americans want to annex new territories in the late 1800s?

2.        why In 1903 did President Roosevelt plot to support a revolution in Panama against Colombia ?

3.        How did Japan react to the settlement of the Russo-Japanese War ?

4.        List some disputes that the United States was called upon to mediate in the early 1900s?

5.        Who controlled most commercial and industrial endeavors in Mexico in the early 1900s ?

6.        Describe the European soldier on the Western Front during WW1?

7.        How did most Americans feel at the beginning of WW1?

8.        Why did  President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany?

9.        What was the Zimmermann Note?  What did it try to accomplish?

10.     What did the book Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter?

11.     How was it determined that a person would serve in World War I ?

12.     Describe American soldiers during World War I.

13.     Describe the intolerance in the United States that was caused by World War I?

14.     After the WW1, what did Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., rule about freedom of speech?

15.     Describe Europe after World War I.

16.     Name the Big Four that negotiated the Treaty of Versailles?

17.     Why did President Wilson advocate both democracy and the elimination of colonies?

18.     Which provision of Wilson's Fourteen Points had not been rejected in the Treaty of Versailles?

19.     Why did the United States fail to join the League of Nations?  What did it do to the League?

20.     Many people felt that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were found guilty of murder because of what reason?

21.     List the indicators that the height of the Red Scare was over by midsummer 1920?

22.     From 1920 to 1930, the African American population in industrial cities increased by more than what percent?

23.     During World War I, anti-saloon advocates successfully linked Prohibition with what?

24.     The Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921 provided funds for states to what?

25.     How were the policies pursued by Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover in the 1920s similar?

26.     Why did the Interstate Commerce Commission become ineffective during the Harding and Coolidge administrations?

27.     Herbert Hoover became a household name in the United States as a result of what?

28.     What did Charles E. Hughes ask fellow world leaders to do at the Washington Naval Conference?

29.     What kind of relations did the United States have with Latin America after World War I?

30.     At the beginning of World War I, the United States had owed other countries money, but by the early 1920s the United States was what kind of nation?

31.     List  new industries in the 1920s?

32.     How did the corporate revolution culminate in the 1920s?

33.     During the 1920s almost every leading university established its own _______________school.

34.     List some Supreme Court ruling favoring management over labor in the 1920s.

35.     The assembly line sped up car manufacturing and did what else?

36.     Why did Henry Ford double workers' wages in 1914 at his plant in Highland Park, Michigan?

37.     By 1925 United States corporations had spent how much money on advertising?

38.     By 1930, 44 percent of employed women worked what kind of jobs?

39.     List some positive effects of assembly lines?

40.     Compared to people overseas, rate the standard of living for Americans in the 1920s

41.     How did the use of electricity to power machines in industries affect the coal mining industry?

42.     Why did many textile workers in the Northeast and South lose their jobs in the 1920s?

43.     Before World War I, women in the United States were often arrested for doing what in public?

44.     By 1930 the number of young people going to college was ?

45.     In the 1920s the entertainment field that defined and created American culture more than any other field was what?

 

 

46.     For what reasons did Americans begin to participate avidly in sports in the 1920s?\

47.     list reasons tabloid newspapers swept the country in the 1920s?

48.     What did John Dos Passos, in his trilogy, U.S.A., John Dos Passos suggested about the United States?

49.     In 1925 John Scopes was tried for breaking the law under the Butler Act because he did what?

50.     What did the Scopes trial symbolize?

51.     Between 1919 and 1929, the production of corn sugar increased sixfold for what reason?

52.     Why did the Ku Klux Klan begin to sink into obscurity in 1925?

53.     During the 1920s immigration to the United States did what?

54.     A few days before the stock market crash of 1929, 5 of the nation's leading bankers pledged to pump undisclosed millions into the stock market in order to?

55.     Characterize an economic depression.

56.     One factor that blocked international trade during the late 1920s was what?

57.     The Republican President in 1928, Herbert C. Hoover, was known for what?

58.     The final blow to President Hoover's political career was ?

59.     Dust storms that plagued the Great Plains were caused in part by what?

60.     The upheaval in agriculture during the 1930s caused a disproportionate amount of suffering among which people?

61.     Why did Okies face hostility from other workers?

62.     How did People who were wealthy before the Depression generally fare when the depression hit?

63.     During the Depression many men deserted their families and lived in hobo camps because of what reason?

64.     During the 1930s the third-largest industry in the United States was which one?

65.     During the late 1930s, electricity was brought to many isolated regions through?

66.     List some advantages of 1930s electrical equipment?

67.     Radio programs during the 1930s tended to avoid controversial issues for what reason?

68.     Why did musicals during the 1930s become very popular movies ?

69.     Describe the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933.

70.     President Hoover had been widely unpopular partly because of what reason?

71.     Describe how most Americans were reacting to their economic plight in early 1933.

72.     Name the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act?

73.     FDR's legislative programs, known as the First New Deal, passed Congress largely because of what fact?

74.     Describe the Social Security program proposed by Dr. Francis E. Townsend.

75.     Why was Father Charles E. Coughlin considered a demagogue?

76.     Unemployed teachers, artists, writers, and actors found work with which New Deal program?

77.     The Public Utility Holding Company Act helped to do what?

78.     The Revenue Act of 1935 angered business leaders because it proposed what?

79.     How did NRA codes often hurt women compared to men?

80.     The PWA's contracts contained a clause requiring that the number of African Americans hired for a project be what?

81.     A direct legacy of the New Deal was?

82.     Roosevelt's black cabinet was made up of?



 

 

  1. There will be three questions for you to answer based on reading a timeline

 

  1. There will be 8 questions based on knowing a blank map (knowing where places are) 4 will be based on a USA map, 4 will be based on a world map
  2. There will be 7 questions based on reading a primary source

 

The following are terms and people that the matching section will come from:  I will choose 15 of the terms and 15 of the people for the matching section.

 


1.         ENTREPENEUR

2.         STOCK

3.         REBATE

4.         CORPORATION

5.         SOCIAL DARWINISM

6.         TRUST

7.         HOLDING COMPANY

8.         LAISSEZ-FAIRE

9.         VERTICAL INTEGRATION

10.      HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION

11.      SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT

12.      TRIPLE ALLIANCE

13.      TRIPLE ENTENTE

14.      DOUGHBOYS

15.      WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD

16.      COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC RELATIONS

17.      14 POINTS

18.      TREATY OF VERSAILLES

19.      MOBILIZATION

20.      ALLIES

21.      VICTORY GARDEN

22.      SELECTIVE SERVICE

23.      PROHIBITION

24.      SUFFRAGE

25.      ANARCHIST

26.      IMPEACH

27.      DEPRESSION

28.      RECESSION

29.      BUYING ON MARGIN

30.      STOCK MARKET

31.      RATIFY

32.      TARIFF

33.      18TH AMENDMENT

34.      19TH AMENDMENT

35.      20TH AMENDMENT

36.      22ND AMENDMENT

37.      BONUS ARMY

38.      SOCIALISTS

39.      COMMUNISTS

40.      CONSERVATIVE

41.      LIBERAL

42.      SUPPLY

43.      DEMAND

44.      INSTALLMENT BUYING

45.      SPECULATION

46.      HOOVERVILLES

47.      SECURITIES

48.      HARLEM RENNAISSANCE

49.      FORDNEY-MCCUMBER TARIFF

50.      ZIMMERMANN NOTE

51.      FLAPPER

52.      ROARING TWENTIES

53.      WASHINGTON CONFERENCE

54.      OPEN SHOP UNION

55.      CLOSED SHOP UNION

56.      DOMESTIC GOODS

57.      FOREIGN GOODS

58.      “HUNDRED DAYS”

59.      CCC

60.      FDIC

61.      AAA

62.      FERA

63.      SSA

64.      PWA

65.      CWA

66.      TVA

67.      SEC

68.      NRA

69.      WAGNER ACT

70.      NEW DEAL

71.      “ALPHABET SOUP”

72.      THE DOLE

73.      DUST BOWL

74.      FIRESIDE CHATS

75.      PUMP PRIMING

76.      BANK HOLIDAY

77.      BONUS ARMY


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1.         ZIMMERMANN

2.         HUERTA

3.         WOODROW WILSON

4.         JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

5.         F.W. TAYLOR

6.         HORATIO ALGER

7.         THOMAS EDISON

8.         IDA TARBELL

9.         ANDREW CARNEGIE

10.      CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

11.      ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

12.      GUSTAVUS SWIFT

13.      BERNARD BARUCH

14.      THE BLACK HAND

15.      FRANZ FERDINAND

16.      GAVRILO PRINCIP

17.      ALFRED E. SMITH

18.      HERBERT HOOVER

19.      CALVIN COOLIDGE

20.      F.D. ROOSEVELT

21.      T. ROOSEVELT

22.      ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

23.      MARCUS GARVEY

24.      DUTCH SCHULTZ

25.      AL CAPONE

26.      OHIO GANG

27.      ALBERT B. FALL

28.      CLARENCE DARROW

29.      JOHN T. SCOPES

30.      FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

31.      KU KLUX KLAN

32.      HAROLD ICKES

33.      HUEY LONG

34.      DR. TOWNSEND

35.      FATHER COUGHLIN

36.      FRANCES PERKINS


 

 

 


OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS

          You will have three open ended questions on the final exam.  The following topics will be where the specific questions will come from:

 

131.            muckrakers (who, what, how, etc)

132.            USA and WW1

133.            choose three people OR three events and write an essay explaining how they have contributed towards your understanding of American history