Honors American History - Spring 2008
Final Exam Review Sheet

Part I – Fill in the Blank
There will be 30 descriptions of historical figures. Name the person who is best associated with each description. The answers will come from the following list:


Civil War (1861-1865)
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• George McClellan
• “Stonewall” Jackson
• John Wilkes Booth

Reconstruction (1865-1877)
• Edwin M. Stanton
• Andrew Johnson
• William Seward
• Grover Cleveland
• Carpetbaggers
• freedmen

Gilded Age (1877-1900)
• Thomas Edison
• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Booker T. Washington
• Alexander Graham Bell
• William Jennings Bryan
• Sitting Bull

Becoming a World Power (1890-1920)
• William McKinley
• Theodore Roosevelt
• John Hay
• William H. Taft

World War I (1914-1920)
• Francis Ferdinand
• Kaiser Wilhelm
• Vladimir Lenin
• Bolsheviks
• Woodrow Wilson
• John J. Pershing

1920s & 1930s
• Warren G. Harding
• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Al Capone
• Charles Lindbergh
• Henry Ford
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Frances Perkins

World War II (1939-1945)
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
• Hideki Tojo
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• George Patton
• Harry S. Truman
• Douglas MacArthur


Part II – Identification
There will be 15 of the following terms on the exam. Choose ten (10) terms to identify. Remember to write complete sentences. Put each term in its proper time frame and explain the historical significance of each.


Civil War (1861-1865)
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg Address

Reconstruction (1865-1877)
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Black Codes
• Compromise of 1877

The Gilded Age (1877-1900)
• “New” Immigrants
• vertical consolidation
• Social Darwinism

Becoming a World Power (1890-1920)
• Open Door Policy
• Rough Riders
• Dollar diplomacy

World War I (1914-1920)
• Zimmerman Note
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Committee on Public Information
• Lusitania

The 20s and 30s
• Scopes Trial
• Harlem Renaissance
• Hundred Days
• Roosevelt coalition

World War II (1939-1945)
• Lend-Lease Act
• Operation Overlord
• Stalingrad
• Internment Camps
• Manhattan Project



Part III – Multiple Choice
There will be 50 multiple choice questions covering major themes and topics of the second semester.





30 Fill in the Blank (1 pt. each) = 30 points
10 Identifications (4 pts. each) = 40 points
50 Multiple Choice (1 pt. each) = 50 points
Total = 120 points