US History Semester II Final Review Sheet Name: 1.Describe Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction and compare it to the Congressional plan. 2.How were Charles Sumner, Ben Wade and Thad Stevens involved in Reconstruction? 3. What was the importance of L. P. Milligan's case? 4.Compare Dunning's interpretation to that of WEB DuBois', Trelease's and/or Foner's. 4b. What was the significance of the essay, View from the Bottom Rail and/or oral tradition? 5. Why was there comparatively larger corruption post-Civil War throughout the country? 6. How did Thomas Nast change journalism? 7. What did the Democratic Party promote during the post-Civil War period? 8. Why did Andrew Johnson antagonize the Radical Republicans? 9.ID the significance of these: Secy of State Seward; freedmen; crop lien system; laissez faire; Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest 10. How did railroads finance their construction boom-and what was their impact? 11. Compare the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific. 12. How did Rockefeller, Swift and Carnegie dominate their respective markets? 13. Compare the relationship of laborers with management both PRE- and POST CW. 14. What did the Molly Maguires, Cosey's Army and the Mugwumps protest? 15. What were the two major domestic political issues between 1876 and 1892? 16. How did Stalwarts use the spoils system and pension grabs-and, ironically, get reformed by Chester Arthur? 17. How did Jacob Riis change journalism-and what did we learn about the accuracy of pictures? 18. How did Henry George, Henry Demarest Lloyd and other writers suggest the US remedy its problems? 19. Describe the characteristics of most Presidents between 1876 and 1892. 20. ID these: George Pullman; Commodore Vanderbilt; Andrew Carnegie; Jane Addams; Eugene Debs 20b. RR Strike of 1877; Haymarket Square; Pullman Strike; Lucy Parsons 21. Describe the significance of barbed wire and the "cowtown." 22. What is Billington's "wave theory" with Frederick Jackson Turner's. 23. Describe the evolution of official US government policy for Native Americans. Include Ely Parker; Wovoka 24. Why did frontier settlers develop the Populist Party? 25. What was included in the Omaha Platform? 26. Describe the significance of the Spanish-American War. 27. Provide examples of TR's Square Deal as the government used its power to referee. 28. What were the Civil War Amendments? Progressive Amendments? 29. Why did the US enter WW I . . . and how did the US react to the Treaty of Versailles and post-war world? 30. What was the last great reform by the Progressives? 31. How did tariff policy in the post-WW I period help spin the world's economy into a depression? 32. What was the attitude of the literary greats of the Twenties towards the middle class? 33. Describe the impact of the automobile. 34. Briefly characterize the Twenties-and the two I's. 35. How did farmers get "caught" in the Depression already in the early Twenties? 36. What was the significance of the 1928 election? Scopes-Monkey Trial? Sacco and Vanzetti Trial? 37. Describe how the US confronted industrial labor during the Twenties. 38. Why did the Great Crash begin-and when did most lose their money if they did? 39. ID: Brain Trust; New Deal as a personal enterprise; pragmatism; political broker 40. Describe FDR's contributions to the New Deal-and the sources of ideas which went into it. 41. Compare Hoover's and FDR's attitudes towards relief for the unemployed. 42. ID the purposes of the TVA; CWA; PWA; WPA; CCC; NRA; Three R's 43. What were the fundamental changes in American society brought about by the New Deal? 43b. Munich, Hitler/Mussolini, Tojo, Pearl Harbor, Yalta, Potsdam, Iron Curtain Speech 44. Compare the strategies of WEB DuBois, George Washington Carver and Charles Houston to end segregation and discrimination. 45. ID: Gaines v. Univ. of Missouri (Canada); Thurgood Marshall's attitudes towards the use of law 46. ID: Dr. Kenneth Clark; Brown v Bd of Ed; Plessy v Ferguson; Schecter v. US; Citizens United 47. Compare the approaches of the SCLC and SNCC regarding the best means to confront segregation 48. Describe the evolution of the civil rights movements using these terms: Montgomery bus boycott; sit-ins; freedom riders; voter registration drives; March on Washington ("Dream"); Selma