Title: HIST 1302: U.S. History 1865 to the Present Review for Exam
1HIST 1302 U.S. History 1865 to the
PresentReview for Exam 1Sections 003 and 005
2Review 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.
3Review 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.
4Review 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?
5Review 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
6Review 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.
7Review 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.
8Review 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.
9KEYWORDS
10The Aftermath of the Civil War
11KEYWORDSReview 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
12KEYWORDSReview 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
13KEYWORDSReview 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.)
14The West of the Imagination and the West of
Reality
15KEYWORDSReview 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
16KEYWORDSReview 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
17The Gilded Age
18KEYWORDSReview 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
19KEYWORDSReview 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)
20KEYWORDSReview 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
21KEYWORDSReview 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
22Immigration and City Culture
23KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1
- explosion of urban population
- industrialization
- urbanization
- old immigration vs. new immigration
- melting pot
- urban conditions
- ghettos/ethnic neighborhoods
- tenements
- immigration quotas