Final Exam Guide

Honors American History

Final Exam Review 2015

-        Format: multiple choice, Primary Source Short Answer, Essay

-        Bring a #2 pencil with a good eraser, pen for essays

-        Units 6-11

 

Unit 6: Becoming a World Power/ The Progressive Era/ WWI

Key Concepts:

-        Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism is the late 19^th century, leading to new territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

-        Progressive reformers responded to economic instability, social inequality, and political corruption by calling for government intervention in the economy, expanded democracy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources.

-        World War I and its aftermath intensified debates about the nation’s role in the world and how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.

1.     Causes of the Spanish-American War

2.     Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick Policy”

3.     Roosevelt Corollary

4.     How did the U.S. gain access to the Panama Canal zone?

5.     Wilson’s foreign policy vs. Taft’s and T. Roosevelt’s

6.     Results of the Spanish-American War

7.     Reason why the U.S. joined WWI

8.     Espionage and Sedition Acts

9.     WWI black migration to North- effects

10.   Why did Pres Wilson want the Treaty of Versailles to pass in Congress?

11.   The purpose of liberty bonds

12.   League of Nations debate

Unit 7/8: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Key concepts:

13.   New technologies led to social transformations that improved the standard of living for many, while contributing to increased political and cultural conflicts

14.   Reformers responded to economic upheavals, laissez-faire capitalism, and the Great Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state.

15.   Although the New Deal did not completely overcome the Depression, it left a legacy of reforms and agencies that sought to make society and individuals more secure.

16.   The consumer economy of the 1920s

17.   Issue at the Scopes Trial

18.   Causes of the stock market crash

19.   The Harlem Renaissance

20.   Impact of mass media

21.   Reasons for immigration restriction

22.   Foreign policies of Harding and Coolidge

23.   1932 election- significance

24.   impact of auto

25.   Prohibition effects

26.   The Jazz Singer

27.   AAA, CCC

28.   FDR’s First Hundred Days

29.   Social Security Act

30.   Huey Long

Unit 9: World War II

Key Concepts:

-        The involvement of the U.S. in WWII, while opposed by most Americans prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, vaulted the U.S. into global political and military prominence, and transformed both American society and the relationship between the U.S. and the rest of the world.

-        Rapid economic and social changes in American society fostered a sense of optimism in the postwar years, as well as underlying concerns about how these changes were affecting American values.

-        New demographic and social issues led to significant political and moral debates that sharply divided the nation.

-        As many liberal principles came to dominate postwar politics and court decisions, liberalism came under attack from the left as well as from resurgent conservative movements.

31.   The Neutrality Acts

32.   Lend-Lease Act

33.   “cash and carry”

34.   WWII home front

35.   General Dwight Eisenhower- D-Day

36.   Truman Doctrine

37.   Marshall Plan

38.   Containment Policy

39.   Levittown

40.   Brown vs Board of Education

41.   Eisenhower’s domestic policies

42.   Conformity of 1950s vs beatniks

43.   Women’s opportunities after WWII

44.   Little Rock 9

45.   Impact of baby boomers, rock and roll

Unit 10: The 1960s and 1970s

Key Concepts:

-        New demographic and social issues led to significant political and moral debates that sharply divided the nation.

-        As many liberal principles came to dominate postwar politics and court decisions, liberalism came under attack from the left as well as from resurgent conservative movements.

46.   Bay of Pigs Invasion

47.   Cuban Missile Crisis

48.   Impact of TV

49.   Warren Commission

50.   Warren Court

51.   LBJ’s Great Society

52.   Betty Friedan

53.   Black Power- Malcolm X

54.   1968 events

55.   Watergate scandal

56.   Goals of the counterculture movement

57.   Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

58.   Kent State

59.   SALT

Unit 11- The 1980s and 1990s

Key Concepts:

-        A new conservatism grew to prominence in U.S. culture and politics, defending traditional social values and rejecting liberal views about government.

-        The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S. leadership in the world forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and global role.

60.   “New Right”

61.   Supporters of the conservative movement/ goals

62.   Reagan as president- Reaganomics

63.   Star Wars

64.   Reaganomics

65.   Highlight of George H. Bush’s presidency

66.   Cause of Persian Gulf War

67.   Clinton as president

68.   NAFTA

69.   George W. Bush as president

Essay topics:

1.     Explain the changes in U.S. foreign policy from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Cold War. Why did changes take place? Be specific.

2.     Explain the social changes that took place as a result of World War Two. Focus on African Americans and women. Be specific.

3.     Compare the 1920s and the 1950s. Be sure to focus on society, the economy, changes in culture, and foreign policy.

Unit 11- The 1980s and 1990s

Ch. 33 Section 4- Foreign Policy After the Cold War

1.     Identify Mikhail Gorbachev.

2.     What led to the collapse of Communist regimes in Europe?

3.     Explain the events in Tiananmen Square.

4.     Explain what happened during the Iran-Contra Scandal.

5.     Why did the Persian Gulf War begin?

6.     Identify the purpose of Operation Desert Storm.

7.     Summarize President George H. Bush’s presidency.

Ch. 34, Section 1- The 1990s and the New Millennium

8.     Summarize the 1992 election. Candidates? Clinton’s platform?

9.     Explain the role of Hillary R. Clinton.

10. Explain the economy and welfare under Clinton.

11. Identify crime and terrorist events that took place in the 1990s.

12. Summarize foreign policy under Clinton, including the role of NAFTA.

13. Who was Newt Gingrich?

14. Summarize the 1996 election.

15. Explain the impeachment process against Clinton.

16. Summarize the 2000 election and why it was controversial.

17. Explain George W. Bush’s antiterrorist measures, was against Iraq, and domestic agenda.

Unit 10 Test Guide

Unit 10 Test Guide- The Cold War Era 1950s-1970s

-       Why was there a post WWII economic boom?

-       Identify the post war migrations that took place, and the reasons for them.

-       Identify the effects of the 1950s baby boom

-       What were the post war goals of the U.S and the Soviet Union

-       Years of the Cold War

-       Role of Yalta Conference; United Nations

-       The Iron Curtain

-       Containment policy and Truman Doctrine

-       Why did the Berlin Airlift occur?

-       Purpose of NATO, Warsaw Pact

-       Why was 1949 a year of shocks?

-       Why did the Korean War take place? Outcome?

-       JFK’s New Frontier program

-       Why did Soviets build Berlin Wall in 1961?

-       JFK’s policy of flexible response

-       Reason for and outcome of the Bay of Pigs Invasion

-       Reason for and outcome of Cuban Missile Crisis

-       LBJ’s Great Society

-       Why did America become involved in Vietnam? Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; TET Offensive;

-       The Earl Warren Court liberal decisions (know the cases)

-       Link the rise of liberalism in the 1960s to the rise of conservatism in the 1970s

-       Know the difference between the beliefs of liberals and conservatives

-       What caused the economic decline of the 1970s? (besides the oil crisis)

-       Were the decisions of the Warren Burger court liberal or conservative, why?

-       Identify the significance of Title IX

-       Explain Richard Nixon’s domestic policy of New Federalism. Was it conservative or liberal?

-       Why did the energy crisis occur in 1973? Role of OPEC. Effect on America?

-       What happened during the Watergate scandal?

-       Questions raised from the 1970s.

-       Explain Nixon’s foreign policy of detente

A Class Divided

A Class Divided

In 1968 Jane Elliot of Ricetown, Iowa was supposed to teach a Sioux Indian lesson to her third grade class with the prayer "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes." However, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, she decided her students needed a life-long lesson. As a result, her brown eyes, blue eyes experiment taught her third graders an influential lesson on discrimination.

Choose one of the following questions and write a one page typed response, citing specific examples from the program. (font size 12, double-spaced)


Click below for the video program if you need to watch it again. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

1. What did you learn from the program? What scenes do you remember the most? Did any part of the film surprise you? Also explain how easily children (and even adults) are molded in their thinking and behavior. How did the negative and positive labels placed on the group become self-fulfilling prophecies? Be sure to discuss the children's/adults’ body language.

 2. How did Jane Elliot's discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group? How did she selectively interpret behavior to conform the stereotypes she assigned? Explain the results.

1960s Research

1960s Research. 30 points.

Answer the following questions on a word document.  Must be TYPED and DOUBLE-SPACED and include a correct MLA heading. You may work with one other student, however, all students will turn in a copy of the answers. Include the questions before each answer.  All questions must be answered correctly and thoroughly IN YOUR OWN WORDS with the help of your textbook and credible sources on the internet.  Pictures must be formatted to a reasonable size. Organization and neatness of your paper will be considered.

JFK as President (1961-1963, Democrat)

1.     The 1960s are labeled a “tumultuous” decade. Define tumultuous.

2.     Who were the candidates in the 1960s election? How did television impact the election?  Provide a picture of both candidates side by side on tv.

3.     Identify 2 precedents JFK set as president.

4.     Make a list of John F. Kennedy’s visions within his “New Frontier” program for America. (5 examples)

5.     Explain JFK’s foreign policy of “flexible response.”

6.     Why did Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev build the Berlin Wall in 1961? Provide a picture of the construction of the wall.

7.     Explain what happened during the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. Why did the U.S. support it? What was the outcome?

8.     In response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, what did the Soviets do next in 1962?

9.     How did JFK handle the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? Find a picture of the map of the targeted areas of the U.S from Cuba.

10. Why was JFK assassinated in 1963? Who was the assassin? Identify the role of Jack Ruby. Provide a picture of the motorcade prior to the assassination.

LBJ as President (1963-1969, Democrat)

1.     Lyndon B. Johnson’s program was the “Great Society.” Identify aspects of this program. (5 examples) Provide a picture of LBJ.

2.     Identify the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

3.     Identify the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

4.     LBJ’s Great Society program is most like which former program?

5.     Explain the purpose of freedom riders.

6.     What was the Black Power movement? Leader? Goals?

7.     Explain the main ideas Betty Friedan’s novel The Feminine Mystique. Provide a picture of the novel cover.

8.     Explain what is meant by the Domino Theory.

9.     Explain the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and how it led to further U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Provide a map picture with the location of Vietnam.

10. What was the goal of America upon entering the Vietnam conflict.

11. How many U.S. troops were sent to Vietnam in 1964? 1965? 1966? 1967?

12. Summarize the anti-war protests in America. What were the main arguments of the protesters? Provide 3 pictures of anti-war protests.

13. Explain the over all beliefs of the counter-culture movement during the 1960s.

14. How did the 1968 TET Offensive affect the popularity of the Vietnam War for Americans.

15. Identify the two assassinations that took place in 1968 in America.

16. Who won the 1968 election? What did he promise Americans?

The 1960s over all…

1.     Explain why the 1960s was a liberal decade. Cite specific examples to support the latter statement. You may need to look up the term. Analyze the over all impact of the 1960s on the 1970s. (think changes, trends, or continuity).