American History - Spring 2008
Final Exam Review Sheet

The Final Exam will consist of three parts: Matching, Identification, and Multiple Choice.

Part 1 – Matching
Part 1 will be divided into 4 sections. (15 people, 10 terms, 15 people, 10 terms)
All people and terms will come from the Review Sheets. In each section, each person/term will be used once.

1 pt. each = 50 pts.


Part 2 – Identification
First, you will be given a list of 10 people from the Review Sheet. You will need to choose 5 people to identify. You will need to put each person in historical context (time frame) and explain the historical significance of each. Remember to write complete sentences.

Next, you will be given a list of 10 terms from the Review Sheet. You will need to choose 5 terms to identify. You will need to put each term in historical context (time frame) and explain the historical significance of each. Remember to write complete sentences.

3 pts. each = 30 pts.


Part 3 – Multiple Choice
There will be 70 multiple choice questions covering major themes and topics of the second semester. The Review Sheet lists specific areas and topics to help guide you in your studying.

1 pt. each = 70 pts.



150 pts. total






People

Civil War (1861-1865)
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Ulysses S. Grant
3. William T. Sherman
4. Jefferson Davis
5. Robert E. Lee
6. “Stonewall” Jackson
7. George Pickett
8. John Wilkes Booth

Reconstruction (1865-1877)
9. Andrew Johnson
10. Ulysses S. Grant
11. Carpetbaggers
12. Scalawags
13. freedmen
14. Thaddeus Stevens
15. Rutherford B. Hayes

Gilded Age (1870-1900)
16. Thomas Edison
17. John D. Rockefeller
18. Andrew Carnegie
19. Booker T. Washington
20. Grover Cleveland
21. Alexander Graham Bell

Becoming a World Power (1890-1913)
22. William McKinley
23. Theodore Roosevelt
24. William H. Taft

World War I (1914-1920)
25. Francis Ferdinand
26. Kaiser Wilhelm
27. Vladimir Lenin
28. Bolsheviks
29. Woodrow Wilson
30. Gen. John J. Pershing

1920s & 1930s
31. Warren G. Harding
32. Calvin Coolidge
33. Herbert Hoover
34. Franklin D. Roosevelt
35. Al Capone
36. Charles Lindbergh
37. Henry Ford
38. Eleanor Roosevelt
39. Frances Perkins

World War II (1939-1945)
40. Benito Mussolini
41. Joseph Stalin
42. Adolf Hitler
43. Paul von Hindenberg
44. Winston Churchill
45. Albert Einstein
46. Dwight D. Eisenhower
47. Bernard Montgomery
48. George Patton
49. Harry S. Truman
50. Douglas MacArthur

Cold War & American Society (1945-1968)
51. George Marshall
52. Joseph McCarthy
53. Nikita Khrushchev
54. Fidel Castro
55. Mao Zedong
56. Martin Luther King, Jr.
57. John F. Kennedy
58. Lyndon B. Johnson
59. Richard Nixon
60. Ho Chi Minh



Terms

Civil War (1861-1865)
1. Anaconda Plan
2. Vicksburg
3. Emancipation Proclamation

Reconstruction (1865-1877)
4. black codes
5. Ku Klux Klan
6. Compromise of 1877

Gilded Age (1870-1900)
7. vertical integration
8. horizontal integration
9. Social Darwinism

Becoming a World Power (1890-1913)
10. Open Door Policy
11. Rough Riders
12. Panama Canal

World War I (1914-1920)
13. Zimmerman Note
14. Committee on Public Information
15. Lusitania
16. American Expeditionary Force

1920s & 1930s
17. Prohibition
18. Scopes Trial
19. Hundred Days
20. Fireside Chats
21. FDIC
22. New Deal

World War II (1939-1945)
23. Anti-Semitism
24. Pearl Harbor
25. Yalta Conference
26. Holocaust
27. Blitzkrieg
28. Kamikaze
29. Operation Overlord
30. Manhattan Project

Cold War & American Society (1945-1968)
31. Truman Doctrine
32. Marshall Plan
33. Berlin Blockade
34. De facto segregation
35. De jure segregation
36. Sit-in
37. Freedom Riders
38. Civil Rights Act of 1964
39. Flexible response
40. Domino theory
 

Multiple Choice Topics

Civil War (1861-1865) – 9 questions
• Advantages of N
• Advantages of S
• Emancipation Proclamation
• African-American soldiers
• Major areas of battle
• Reasons for fighting
• N. economy
• S. economy
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• March to the Sea
• Surrender

Reconstruction (1865-1877) – 7 questions
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Freedmen
• Tenure of Office Act
• Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Ku Klux Klan
• Black codes
• Impeachment
• Freedmen’s Bureau

Gilded Age (1870-1900) – 6 questions
• Social Darwinism
• Vertical integration
• Horizontal integration
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Popular Sports
• Philanthropy
• Thomas Edison – electricity

Becoming a World Power/ Progressive Era (1890-1913) – 6 questions
• Open Door Policy
• Spheres of Influence
• Panama Canal – what is it? why controversial?
• Causes of Spanish American War
• Expansionism
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Dollar Diplomacy

World War I (1914-1920) – 12 questions
• “the spark”
• Lusitania
• Zimmerman Note
• Preparedness movement
• Alliances
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Treaty of Versailles
• League of Nations
• Describe early years of the war (before US involvement)
• Fourteen Points
• Self-determination
• African American troops
• Bolshevik Revolution

1920s & 1930s – 5 questions
• Assembly line
• Stock Market Crash – Black Tuesday
• fundamentalism
• theory of evolution
• organized crime
• prohibition
• Fashion
• Impact of New Deal programs

World War II (1939-1945) – 9 questions
• Alliances
• Internment camps
• Pearl Harbor
• Battle of the Bulge
• Operation Torch
• Normandy Invasion
• Manhattan Project
• Blitzkrieg
• Island hopping
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• Fascism
• Anti-Semitism
• Holocaust

Cold War and American Society (1945-1959) – 16 questions
• Reasons for Cold War
• Marshall Plan
• Foreign policy objective
• “Iron Curtain”
• Outcomes of Korean War
• U.S. relations with Castro
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Montgomery bus boycott
• Freedom riders
• March on Washington
• Little Rock Nine
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Kennedy Assassination
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Bay of Pigs invasion
• Ho Chi Minh’s goal
• Viet cong
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Tet Offensive