Review Sheet for the Final Exam: US history 2015

A New Nation
3 branches of government/balance of
power
3/5ths rule
Alien and Sedition Acts
Articles of Confederation - weaknesses
Bill of Rights and the 12th, 13th, 14th,
15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 26th
amendments
Constitution
o First 3 articles (LEJ)
o Ratification
o Delegated, reserved, and
concurrent powers
Declaration of Independence
Federalists vs. AntiFederalists/Democratic-Republicans
George Washington
Great Compromise - bicameralism
Impeachment rules
John Adams
Marbury v. Madison
Thomas Jefferson
War of 1812
Westward Expansion:
Andrew Jackson
Five Civilized Tribes
Harrison
Indian Removal Act initiated
John Quincy Adams
Louisiana Purchase/Napoleon
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Oklahoma
Tecumseh/Tippecanoe
Trail of Tears
Worcester v. Georgia and Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia
Antebellum America
1850 Compromise/Fugitive Slave Act
3630
5440 (or fight)
Abolitionists
American Colonization Society/Liberia
Charles Sumner
Cotton Gin

Democrats/Republicans/Free
Soilers/Whigs/Know Nothings
Dred Scott Case/Justice Taney
Eli Whitney
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass/The North Star
Gradual vs. Radical Abolitionists
Harriet Tubman
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Joseph Smith/Brigham Young/Mormons
Kansas-Nebraska Act/Burning
Kansas/John Brown
Lincoln/Douglas know about each and
their debates
Manifest Destiny
Mexican American War
Missouri Compromise
North vs. South
Popular Sovereignty
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls
Slave vs. Free States and Union vs.
Confederate States
Susan B. Anthony
Temperance Movement (WCTU)/Maine
Laws
Underground Railroad
William Lloyd Garrison/The Liberator
Wilmot Proviso

Civil War
Antietam
Atlanta/Sherman
Booth, John Wilkes
Border States
Confederacy/Davis, Jefferson
Democrats (Northern and Southern)
Election of 1860 and 1864
Douglass, Frederick
Emancipation Proclamation
Ft. Sumter
Gettysburg
Grant, Ulysses S.
Lee, R. E.
Richmond/Washington D.C.
Secession
The Massachusetts 54th
Union/Lincoln

War of attrition

Reconstruction
13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Black Codes/Jim Crow/Literacy
tests/Poll Taxes
Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. DuBois
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Freedmens Bureau
Impeachment/Tenure of Office Act
Johnson, Andrew
Ku Klux Klan
Plessy v. Ferguson
Sharecropping
Suffragists
Wells, Ida B
Gilded Age
Capitalism/Laissez Faire/Social
Darwinism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Company town
Conspicuous Consumption
Entrepreneurs
Horatio Alger
Immigration:
o Reasons for coming
o Travel
o Restrictions
o Experiences
o Ellis Island and Angel Island
experiences
Labor Unions: AFL/CIO/Knights of Labor
Migration/Urbanization
Nativism
Oil/Rockefeller
Philanthropy
Political Machines/ Tammany Hall
Railroads/Vanderbilt
Refrigeration
Sherman and Clayton Anti Trust Acts
Steel/Carnegie
Strikes: ex. Pullman
Monopoly/Trust
Working Conditions, Hours and Wages
Progressivism (overlaps with Gilded
Age)
Anarchists
Eugene Debs/Samuel Gompers/Mother
Jones

FTC
Haymarket Riot
Muckrakers
o
Ida Tarbell
o
Jacob Riis/Lewis Hine
o
Thomas Nast (cartoons)
o
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
Lochner v. New York
NAACP
Pulitzer and Hearst
Robert LaFolette
Socialists
Suffrage: NAWSA/NWP/Alice Paul
Teddy Roosevelt
Temperance: WCTU/18th and 21st
Amendments
Tenements
Triangle Shirtwaist factory Fire

Imperialism
China/Open Door Policy
Dominican Republic
Hawaii
Mexico
Panama/Colombia/Canal
McKinley
Big Stick Diplomacy/T. Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy/Taft
Monroe Doctrine/Roosevelt Corollary
Moral Diplomacy/Wilson
Spanish American War
o
Cuba (Teller and Platt
Amendments)
o
Philippines
o
Puerto Rico
o
Colored Cavalry/Rough Riders
Yellow Journalism Pulitzer and Hearst
World War I
1914-18
African Americans roles in the war
Allies: (Former Triple Entente) Britain,
France, Italy, Russia
Big Three/Big Four
Central Powers: (Former Triple Alliance)
Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire,
Bulgaria
Committee on Public Information
Conscription/Draft
Espionage and Sedition Acts

Four Fronts
Fourteen Points
Germany
Great Britain
Isolationism He Kept Us Out of War
June 28, 1914 and 1919
League of Nations/ Article X
o Henry Cabot Lodge
o Reservationist
o Progressives
o Irreconcilables
Lusitania
November 11, 1918
Paris Peace Conference/Treaty of
Versailles
Reparations
Russian Revolution/Treaty of Brest
Litovsk/Lenin
Schlieffen Plan (Belgium)
Self-determination
Serbia and Bosnia
Total War (ex. Victory Gardens, war
bonds)
Trenches
U-Boat
US entry into the war
Wilson
Womens role in the war
Zimmerman Telegram (Ger., US, GB,
Mexico)

The Roaring 1920s

ACLU
Bear and Bull Markets
Buying on margin
Coolidge Stay Cool with Coolidge
Darwins Origin of
Species/Darrow/Scopes Trial
(Fundamentalism)
Harding A Return to Normalcy/Ohio
Gang/Teapot Dome Scandal
Henry Ford
Hoover Laissez Faire
Jazz Age
o Great Migration (Blacks moving
north)
o Harlem
o Langston Hughes
o Marcus Garvey/Back to Africa
movement
John Maynard Keynes!

Klu Klux Klan/Hiram W. Evans

Laissez Faire!
Prohibition
Red Scare Part One
o
Emma Goldman
o
Palmer Raids/Russian Ark
o
Sacco and Vanzetti/Webster
Thayer
Speculation
Strikes:
o
United Mine Workers
o
Boston Police
Unemployment rates

The Great Depression (1930s):

100 days (FDR)
Black Tuesday October 29th,
1929/Bank Run ons
Court Packing Scandal
Dorothea Lange
Dust Bowl/Okies
Farm Subsidies
FDR A New Deal
Fireside Chats
Hoovervilles
New Deal programs:
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Emergency Banking Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
National Recovery Administration
National Youth Administration
Social Security Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
World War II
Allies
Atomic bomb
Axis (Berlin/Rome/Tokyo)
o
Germany - Hitler
o
Italy - Mussolini
o
Japan - Tojo
Battle of Britain
D Day
Dawes Plan
Fascism
FDR

Hitlers recovery plan

Home front
o
Patriotism/Propaganda
o
War Production Board (WPB)
o
Women and African
Americans during the war
o
Rosie the Riveter
Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland,
France and USSR
Island Hopping
Japanese internment: 9066
Japanese invasion of China
Navajo/Code Talkers
Nazi Soviet Pact
Neutrality Acts
Pearl Harbor
Stalin/Shifting alliances/Communism
Truman
Tuskegee Airmen
Unilateralism
VE Day
VJ Day

Cold War
Anti-Communist sentiment
Berlin Airlift/Berlin Wall
China
o
Chinese Communist
Revolution
o
Mao
o
Chiang Kai Shek
Churchill Iron Curtain
Cuba:
o
Bay of Pigs
o
Castro
o
Cuban Missile crisis
Domino Theory/Containment/MAD
Eisenhower
FDR
Germany/Berlin
Kennedy (John and Robert)
Korea (North and South)/38th parallel)
LBJ Great Society
MacArthur
NATO/SEATO
New Deal Reformers
Red Scare
o
McCarthyism
o
Hollywood
Ten/Hiss/Rosenbergs
Truman

United Nations
USSR/Stalin and Khrushchev
Warsaw Pact
Yalta Conference

Vietnam:
Agent Orange and Napalm
Doves/Hawks Democrats/Republicans
French Indochina
Geneva Conference
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Ho Chi Minh
Just war theory
Kent State
My Lai Search and Destroy Missions
Ngo Dinh Diem/Nguyen Van Thieu
Paris Peace Accords
Presidents: IKE, JFK, LBJ, Nixon and Ford
Protests/March on Washington
Tet Offensive
Vietcong/Vietminh
Vietnam
Civil Rights

Birmingham (Kings letter)

Black Panthers

Brown v. Board of Education

CORE Freedom Rides

Earl Warren and the Supreme Court decisions

Emmett Till

Great Migration

JFK and RFK

Little Rock Nine/Gov. Faubus

Malcolm X/Nation of Islam

March on Washington (1963)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

NAACP

Nonviolent resistance (sit in,

boycotts)

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus

boycott/MIA

SCLC and SNCC

Selma

Thurgood Marshall