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U.S. History Midterm

Review Sheet Part 2

Chapter 5

51. Describe factory-working conditions in the late 1800s.

52. Describe how unions tried to change these conditions.

Chapter 6

53. What was the impact of the large wave of immigration of

Southern and Eastern Europeans on the United States?

54. Describe the problems in cities in the late 1800s.

Chapter 6

55. Give examples of the limitations placed on African

Americans under the Jim Crow laws.

56. According to Booker T. Washington, equal rights would

result from . . .

57. According to DuBois, in what ways did Washington’s

philosophy accommodate the wishes of whites in society?

58. Define segregation.

Chapter 10

There will be a short reading and questions on the suffragist

movement.

Chapter 7

59. Why did industrial growth in the late 1800s help increase

American imperialism?

There will be a reading and questions on the annexation of

Hawaii.

Chapter 9

60. What actions were taken in the anti-German movement of

World War I?

61. What factors helped to push the US into World War I? 62. What was the impact of the Espionage and Sedition

Acts?

63. How did World War I influence the suffragist movement?

64. Explain the main provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.

Describe which provisions (parts) most angered Germany.

Chapter 9 section 4; Chapter 10

65. Following World War I, there was an increase in violence

and discrimination against immigrants. After the war,

whites also began to fear the Great Migration. What was

the primary cause of this racial tension?

66. Describe a nativist’s opinion of the immigration quota

system enacted in the US in 1921. - p. 412, 415, & 417

67. What did the Sacco and Vanzetti trials demonstrate about

America in the 1920s?

68. What was the impact of the affordable automobile on the

American society in the 1920s?

69. What was prohibition? Why was it difficult to enforce?

70. What was the Great Migration?

Chapter 10

71. What was the significance of the Scopes trial in the

1920s?

72. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

73. Despite the popularity of black culture in the Harlem

Renaissance, how did whites treat blacks in the 1920’s?

74. What new forms of entertainment helped to shape a mass culture

in the United States?

75. Explain how Americans developed a new culture in the 1920s.

Cite examples of the new American culture.

76. Define speculation.

77. Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What did he fear happening to

America in the 1920s?

Chapter 11

78. What were the causes of the Great Depression?

79. What was Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great

Depression? How effective was he?

80. How did the Great Depression affect the role of

government in the economy?

81. What is buying stock on margin?

82. What are the three goals of the New Deal?

Chapter 12

83. Which New Deal programs have had a long-lasting

impact on American economy? Look up what these

programs are, tell what problem each was designed to

solve, how each would attempt to solve the problem, and

why they’re important today in order to answer this

question: A. The Social Security Act

B. The Glass-Steagal Act and the FDIC

C. Federal Securities Act and the SEC

D. The FDC

E. The FHA

F. The NLRB

G. The CCC

H. The TVA

I. The WPA

84. What was the overall unemployment rate during the Depression?

85. Describe were the causes (p. 474) and the impact of the Dust

Bowl? There will be a reading over FDR’s role in recovering from the Great

Depression.

Explain the main provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.

Describe which provisions most angered Germany.

Explain how Americans developed a new culture in the

1920s. Be able to cite examples of the new American

culture.

Describe were the causes and the impact of the Dust Bowl