EOC STUDY GUIDE 2020

CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION

1. What did the following events Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision and the Freeport Doctrine have in common?

2. What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867? Who was supporting it? Why?

3. What positive effect did Reconstruction have on African Americans?

4. How did Jim Crow laws and black codes affect African-American?

5. What was the impact of Plessy vs Ferguson?

6. What was the purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

7. To extend the civil rights to former slaves, these amendments were passed. Match the amendment

13th Amendment ______ A. the right to vote14th Amendment ______ B. abolished slavery15th Amendment _______ C. citizens of the U.S.

8. Why was Andrew Johnson’s decision on Civil Rights Act a fight with Congress significant?

9. (A)What do the pictures demonstrate? (B)What was the impact? (C)Why would the northern or Republicans support this passage?

10. What was the effect of sharecropping?

11. What was the impact of Panic of 1873?

12. What was President Lincoln’s goal during the Civil War?

13. How did the Nebraska Act contribute to the Civil War?

14. Why was the Battle of Vicksburg very important?

15. What was the characteristic of President Grant’s government on the South?

16. Why was Sherman’s plan for 40 acres and a mule a failure?

17.What does this image symbolize? Why would this image be significant to Americans in the fall of 1869?

18. What advantages did the North have over the South during the Civil War? What advantage did the South have on the North?

WESTWARD EXPANSION AND FARMERS

19. The Populists believed that most of the United States economic problems would be solved by establishinga. currency reformb. postal savings banksc. a national property taxd. a renewed policy of open immigration

20. A main goal of the Granger movement of the 1870’s and 1880’s was to

a. force the railroads to lower freight ratesb. reduce the rate of inflationc. strengthen labor unionsd. improve living conditions in urban slums

21. Below is the excerpt of what has become known as the “Cross of Gold” speech

“Having behind use the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”

Did the speech support or oppose the gold standard? What did he favor? Which group of people supported Jennings’ “Cross of Gold”?

22. The photograph is an example of which Act:

A. Native American Exclusion ActB. Dawes ActC. Reconstruction Act D. Assimilation Act

23. What was the impact of the transcontinental railroad?

24. What was the impact of the Homestead Act?

25. What was the impact of the battle of Little Big Horn?

26. How did the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances pave the way for the Populist Party?

27. What was the impact of the Oklahoma Land Rush?

28. What was the purpose of the Morrill Land- Grant Act?

29. How did Westward Expansion affect the lives of American Indians?

SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND LABOR UNION

29. Who was Samuel Gompers?

30. How were minorities affected during the gilded age?

31. What was the main purpose of the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

32. What is Social Darwinism? Who supported this belief?

33. What was the Interstate Commerce Act? Why was there very little enforcement of the Interstate Commerce Act?

34. How did Captain of Industry or Robber Barons use monopoly to make their fortune?

35. Why is the Gospel of Wealth important?

36. What were some tactics used by management to resist the demands of labor?

37. What is the difference between Horizontal and Vertical Integration? Which business leader belonged to what?

38. What was the difference between the First and Second Industrial Revolution?

39. How did Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell invention either impact American Society or contribute to the second industrial revolution?

40. What impact did the Bessemer Process have during the Second Industrial Revolution?

41. Business men like Carnegie and Rockefeller believed in what type of ideologies during the industrial age

a. capitalismb. socialismc. communismd. anarchism

IMMIGRATION AND URBANIZATION

42. List the differences between “New vs Old Immigrants”

43. How were Chinese immigrants treated compared to European Immigrants?

44. What was the settlement housing? Who did they help?

45. List some of the problems faced by cites.

46. What is the Chinese Exclusion Act? Does the political cartoon demonstrate FOR or ANTI Chinese Exclusion Act? Why were Chinese not liked in the West Coast?

47. What are some characteristic of a political machine?

48. The Political Cartoon “The brains that achieved the Tammany victory at the Rochester Democratic Convention”. What social issue do you think the cartoonist is associating it with?

PROGRESSIVE ERA

49. What was the outcome of Muller vs Oregon?

50. What was the impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

51. What was “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair about? What impact did it have?

IMPERIALISM

52. What did Alfred T Mahan urged the United States must build?

53. What were some characteristic that made expansion and the practice of imperialism justifiable?

54. What was the Platt Amendment?

55. Which new technique for selling newspaper contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War?

A. MuckrakingB. Yellow journalismC. Jingoism D. Social Darwinism

56. What territories were acquired by the U.S. under the Treaty of Paris 1898? Why was it important for the U.S. to acquire territories?

57. What was the purpose of the Great White Fleet?

58. What was the impact of the sinking of the USS Maine?

59. (A) How did the United States end up with full control of the Panama Canal?

(B) How did the building of the Panama Canal support United States efforts to become a world power and what impact did it have on the USA?

60. What problems did the Americans builders encountered that almost derailed the canal project?

61. President Theodore Roosevelt’s policies toward Latin America were evidence of his belief in

a. noninvolvement in world affairsb. intervention when American business interests were threatenedc. the sovereign rights of all nationsd. the need for European interference in the Western Hemisphere

WORLD WAR I

62. What promise did Germany make to Mexico (Zimmerman Note)?

63. How were African-Americans affected during the War? What was the purpose of the Great Migration? How were Women and Latinos also affected by the war?

64. What war tactic is being represented in the picture? How did this tactic serve during the war?

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65. The Treaty of Versailles was designed to punished and cripple Germany. What was the goal of forcing Germany to pay reparation?

66. Which term under the Treaty of Versailles was Germany mostly against?

67. What role did Pensacola Naval Air Station play during the war?

68. Did Conscientious objectors participate during the war? Is so, how?

“THELUSITANIAHASBEENBOMBEDWITH128AMERICANSDEAD!!”

69. What was the Lusitania? What impact did it have on the United States?

70. How did Americans demonstrate their Anti-German feelings during and after the war?

71. Provide some examples on how the United States supported the war?

72. Where did Woodrow Wilson propose his 14pts? What was the purpose of it?

73. What is this political cartoon illustrating?

74. What attitude is America representing in this political cartoon?

75. Why did the U.S.Senate fail to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?

76. The League of Nations can best be described as a world organization where countries could gather and resolve their quarrels peacefully.

ROARING 20S

76. What was the Red Summer and how did the public react to it?

77. What was the Ford-McCumber Tariff? Why was Henry Ford against it?

78. The KKK grew in membership in the 1920s because of its extreme dislike for foreigners and a desire to limit immigration who was mostly Catholics and Jews. What is the name of this type of attitude?

An excerpt from Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“In all my life I never stole, never killed, never spilled blood…We were tried during a time…when there was hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigner…I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian…If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.”

79. According to Vanzetti, what were the reasons for his imprisonment?

80. What did the flappers want? What changes were they doing?

81. How did demobilization affect the veterans?

82. What was the impact of the Red Scare?

83. How is the 18th Amendment related to the Volstead Act? 18th Amendment was the ban of manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol and Volstead provided the enforcement for the 18th amendment.

84. How did Henry Ford’s assembly line have an impact on society?

85. The parade and demonstration, which took place down Pennsylvania Avenue, was the first protest of its kind in front of the White House.  The march greatly increased public awareness of _______________________ and helped lead to the passing of the _______ Amendment in 1920.

86. How was the economy in Europe affected after the war?

87. What was the Four Power Treaty?

88. Why was the Rosewood Massacre in Florida important?

89. What caused Florida prosperity? Why were people moving to Florida?

90. What was a characteristic of the economic boom during the Jazz Age?

91. Who were the fundamentalist? What were they supporting?

92. What was the Dawes Plan and its goal?

93. What was the impact of the Palmer’s Raid?

94. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were artist during the Harlem Renaissance. What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?

95. What was the Washington Navel Conference? What was its purpose?

96. Why were strong economies in Europe important to the United States?