Format – All question are three points, except the 10-point essay.
Short Answer / Listing – 5
Matching – 11
Short Answer (complete sentences) – 14
Essay – 1 of 2
Key Themes and Concepts – These come from your notes, but you may use your book to look them up. No information from notes conflict with your book. Most are from chapters 8 through 12.
Branches of the Government
Powers of Each Branch
Bill of Rights (First Ten Amendments)
dry farming
Election of 1876
transcontinental railroad
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
“Gospel of Wealth”
horizontal integration
vertical integration
Gustavus Swift
Thaddeus Lowe
entrepreneur
Thomas Edison
Ghost Dance
George Custer
time zones
Boom and Bust
monopoly
goal of unions
open range
impact of barbed wire
political machines
steerage
Laissez-Faire
“The Gilded Age”
Ellis Island
Angel Island
nativism
ethnic neighborhoods
individualism
patronage
Social Darwinism
Assassination of James Garfield
Populism / Populist Party
Disfranchisement of African American voters
segregation
Jim Crow
Jose Marti
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DeBois
Ida B. Wells
definition of lynching
imperialism
yellow journalism
Theodore Roosevelt
“Remember the Maine”
Essay – Two of the following essays will appear as the choices on your exam. You will choose ONE.
a. How did America emerge as an international power during the last half of the 19th Century? Be sure to include economic, military, and any other relevant means.
b. Millions of different Americans lived in the United State at the turn of the twentieth century. What struggles did the nation face internally with so many different backgrounds, cultures, and views? Be sure to include economic, racial, ethnic, and military struggles.
c. How do some people argue the Spanish-American War led to sectional reconciliation at the expense of civil rights for African Americans?
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