U.S.

History since 1865

Midterm Review Items

Note: The items below are those that caused problems for about 15 or
20 percent of the respondents on quizzes for chapters 15 through 21.
Of course, the results are partial for the last couple of chapters, but the
sample is large enough to see the statistical pattern. Overall, as a class
you are doing well.
In general the pattern holds over time (many terms) that political,
legal and economic issues cause the most problems. Those topics are
generally not given the attention in public schools that they deserve.
So that result is no surprise. Those are the areas that many of you
need to concentrate more on in order to be successful in a history
course. Again, as a class, you are doing well.
Please focus increased attention on the below items for the
midterm.
Good Luck
Professor Gilmartin
Chapter 15
1. Principle tasks of the Freedmans Bureau.
2. The Bargain of 1877.
3. Reread section in Ch15 The Aftermath of Slavery to see how
other societies dealt with changes in slavery.
4. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the 15th
Amendment.
5. Corruption in government in the 1870s.
6. The Redeemers.
Chapter 16
1. Groups that strongly supported the Republican Party in the late
19th century.
2. The Christian Lobby.
3. The effects of mechanization of manufacture on skilled workers.
4. William Graham Sumner.
5. Beliefs of the Social Gospel Movement.
Chapter 17
1. Names of the leading anti-imperialists in the late 19th century.
2. Factors affecting the spread of segregation and
disfranchisements in the South in the late 19th century.
3. Principles of the American Federation of Labor.

4. Issues in the Peoples Party platform adopted at the Omaha

convention.
5. Farmers Alliance (issues and groups supporting, not supporting).
6. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
7. Groups who supported or didnt support Womens Suffrage in the
late 19th century.
8. Groups who supported or didnt support the Populists.
Chapter 18
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Status of Agriculture in the Progressive Era.

Theodore Roosevelts New Nationalism.
Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom.
Views of Gifford Pinchot.
Womens Suffrage in States.
Frederick W. Taylor and scientific management.

Chapter 19
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Significant developments in postwar (WWI) America.

Dissent and World War I in the U.S.
The Roosevelt Corollary.
Dollar Diplomacy.
1917 Russian Revolution.
The Committee on Public Information.
The Tulsa race riot.
Effects of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 on U.S. and the
World.
9. The Treaty of Versailles.
Chapter 20
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Republican political perspectives in the 1920s.

Underlying causes of the Great Depression.
Main causes of the Great Depression.
Relative support by men and women for the Equal Rights
Amendment.
5. Charles A. Lindbergh.
6. Robert and Helen Lynds study on Middletown.
7. Amount and percentage of unemployed during the Great
Depression.
Chapter 21
1. Reasons for Franklin D. Roosevelts landslide election victory in
1932.

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Personal, professional and political characteristics of FDR.

Reasons for the winding down of the New Deal in the late 1930s.
Key issues in the Second New Deal.
Pressure from the political left in America during the New Deal.