Honors American History
Final Exam Review 2015
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Format: multiple choice, Primary Source Short Answer, Essay
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Bring a #2 pencil with a good eraser, pen for essays
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Units 6-11
Unit 6: Becoming a World Power/ The Progressive Era/ WWI
Key Concepts:
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Many Americans
began to advocate overseas expansionism is the late 19th century,
leading to new territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere
and the Pacific.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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New demographic and social issues led to significant political and
moral debates that sharply divided the nation.
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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.
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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
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Eisenhower’s domestic policies
42.
Conformity of 1950s vs beatniks
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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:
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New demographic and social issues led to significant political and
moral debates that sharply divided the nation.
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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.
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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
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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:
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A new conservatism
grew to prominence in U.S. culture and politics, defending traditional social
values and rejecting liberal views about government.
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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.
