HIST 1302: U.S. History 1865 to the Present Review for Exam

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HIST 1302 U.S. History 1865 to the
PresentReview for Exam 1Sections 003 and 005
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Review for Exam 1

• DATE OF EXAM
• Exam 1 will be given on Wednesday, February 11.
  It will occur during your regular class time.
• MAKE-UP POLICY (from Syllabus)
• There will be no make-ups for the exams except in
  extreme conditions. In order to qualify for a
  make-up, you must contact me by phone, e-mail, or
  in person before the exam begins to let me know
  that you will miss it and why. If you miss an
  exam without contacting me in advance, you will
  receive a ZERO, regardless of your reason for
  missing it.

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Review for Exam 1

• FORMAT OF EXAM
• 40 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points each 80
  points)
• 4 Short Answer/Identification Questions (5 points
  each 20 points)
• I will give you 8 to choose from. Write only
  four answers.

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Review for Exam 1

• FORMAT OF EXAM
• To answer a Short Answer correctly you must
• 1) Define the item, as clearly and succinctly as
  possible
• 2) Describe the terms significance what does
  this thing tell us about the bigger picture (ie.,
  the subject matter of that lecture, or U.S.
  history in general)? How does it connect to
  other important ideas or events?

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• There are three major sources of information you
  need to work with
• 1) Class notes you need to know all the
  keywords displayed on the overhead (and listed
  below).
• 2) Textbook the test will cover Chapters 17-20.
• 3) CD-Rom Readings as listed in the syllabus

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• Most of the Multiple Choice questions will come
  from material which is in both the lectures and
  the textbook. I may ask questions over material
  which is just in the lectures, but it is very
  unlikely that I will test you over stuff which is
  only in the textbook.
• Therefore, the best way to study is to work from
  the Keywords, looking for material which overlaps
  with the textbook chapters. The places where
  there is overlap will be the source for most of
  the exam questions.

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• To prepare for the Identification questions,
  carefully study the Keyword lists from class (and
  below). For each term, you should be able to
• Define the term
• Explain how that term connects to the general
  topic of the lecture it comes from (ie., The
  Aftermath of the Civil War, The Gilded Age, etc.)
• Explain what that term has to do with the one
  listed before it and the one after.
• You should, that is, be able to define each
  keyword and put it into an appropriate larger
  context.

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO BRING
• For the Multiple Choice portion of the test, you
  must bring a Scantron sheet (available in the
  bookstores) and a 2 pencil.
• For the Identification portion, you need a blue
  book and, if you want, a pen. Do not, of course,
  fill out the Scantron with a pen.
• Once again a Scantron, blue book, and 2 pencil.

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KEYWORDS
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The Aftermath of the Civil War
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Civil War as midpoint of U.S. history
• antebellum period
• muscular innocence
• perfectionism
• evangelical religion
• social reform
• Civil War (1861-1865)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• institutions vs. individuals
• U.S. Sanitary Commission
• railroads

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Republican Party
• Frederick Douglass
• Reconstruction
• Presidential Reconstruction
• Thirteenth Amendment (1865) ends slavery
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Forty Acres and a Mule
• President Andrew Johnson
• black codes
• Congressional Reconstruction
• Civil Rights Act (1866)
• Fourteenth Amendment (1866) citizenship and due
  process

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
• Republican state legislatures
• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• 15th Amendment (1870) voting rights
• white supremacy
• "carpetbaggers"
• "black and tan" legislatures
• Ku Klux Klan
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Election of 1876 / Compromise of 1877
• Rutherford B. Hayes (Rep.) vs. Samuel J. Tilden
  (Dem.)

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The West of the Imagination and the West of
Reality
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Frederick Jackson Turners Frontier Thesis
  (1893)
• Great Plains
• Great American Desert
• buffalo / bison
• Wild West
• frontiersmen (Daniel Boone)
• dime novels
• Erastus Beadle
• stock characters
• Edward L. Wheeler, Deadwood Dick
• William F. Buffalo Bill Cody
• Wild West Show
• popular culture

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Homestead Act of 1862
• proving up
• 98º longitude semiarid region
• The rain follows the plow.
• dry farming
• speculators
• corporate farming
• breadbasket
• railroads
• land grants to railroads
• promotional campaigns
• railroad towns
• Great Barbecue

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The Gilded Age
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Gilded Age
• Big Business / corporations
• robber barons
• Jay Gould railroads
• Andrew Carnegie U.S. Steel
• John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil
• vertical integration or vertical combination
• horizontal integration or trust
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• monopolies

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• mail order Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward
• department stores Marshall Fields and Macys
• mass retailing
• justifications for wealth
• social theory
• Social Darwinism
• Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species, 1859)
• natural selection
• survival of the fittest
• William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes
  Owe One Another (1883)

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Gospel of Wealth
• Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds (1888)
• Horatio Alger
• pluck and luck
• Carnegie Libraries
• Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class
  (1899)
• warrior chieftains
• status symbols
• conspicuous consumption
• leisure class

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• labor unions
• new ways of working
• wage system
• company towns
• Knights of Labor
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• Samuel Gompers
• socialists and anarchists
• Haymarket Riot, 1886
• Homestead Strike, 1892
• Henry Clay Frick
• lockout
• Pinkerton Detectives
• workers rights vs. right of private property

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Immigration and City Culture
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• explosion of urban population
• industrialization
• urbanization
• old immigration vs. new immigration
• melting pot
• urban conditions
• ghettos/ethnic neighborhoods
• tenements
• immigration quotas