HIST 10613
Section 035
Study Guide for Exam 1
What was name for the system of second-class citizenship for African-Americans adopted in the South after the end of Reconstruction?
What was the Dawes Act? What policy did it adopt?
What was the final tragic event of the Indian Wars?
What were some of the striking features of life on the 19th-century farming frontier?
What did Joseph Glidden invent?
What were some industries that experienced major growth in the late 19th century?
Who was Andrew Carnegie? With what industry was he involved?
Who was James J. Hill? With what industry was he involved?
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt? With what industry was he chiefly involved?
Who was John D. Rockefeller? With what industry was he chiefly involved?
Who won the election of 1880? To what party did he belong?
Who were the Stalwarts? What did they want? Who was their most notorious (or infamous) adherent? What did he do?
Who was Chester A. Arthur? What significant legislation did he sign? What act created the civil service system?
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes? What was his position on civil service reform? What was his position with regard to the bimetallic system? What action took place during his administration with regard to both of these issues?
Who was Grover Cleveland? To what political party did he belong? What was his position regarding the size and role of government? What was his position with regard to the bimetallic system?
In the election of 1884, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who won?
In the election of 1888, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who won?
In the election of 1892, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who was the Populist candidate? Who won?
In the election of 1896, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who was the Populist candidate? Who won?
Who was William Jennings Bryan? What famous speech catapulted him to national fame and a major-party presidential nomination? What was his position with regard to the bimetallic system?
What was the one idea that came to entrance many intellectuals and became the defining concept of the decades around the beginning of the twentieth century?
Who was the philosopher of nature whose thought lay behind much of the thinking of Progressivism?
Who devised the philosophy known as Pragmatism?
With what philosophical problems did Pragmatism attempt to cope?
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.? With what movement was he associated? What was his idea toward the nature of truth?
Who was Louis Brandeis? For what did he gain his initial fame?
What is sociological jurisprudence? What is its attitude toward the nature of truth and fixed moral principles?
What is progressive education? Who was its founder? On what philosophical assumptions was it based? What does it value? What does it hold to be less valuable? What is its attitude toward the nature of truth and fixed moral principles?
What was the “Social Gospel Movement”? In what way did it differ from previous expressions of Christianity? Who was its chief founder?
Who was Lincoln Steffens? What type of journalism did he epitomize? What was the title of his book? What was it about?
What was the main goal of the muckrakers?
Who was Ida Tarbell? What was the subject of her book?
Who was Upton Sinclair? How did his writing differ from that of other muckrakers? What was the title of his most famous book? What was it about? What was Sinclair’s avowed purpose in writing his books?
What was the Populist Party? What organizations did it grow out of? What sort of people were in it? What did they want?
In the presidential election of 1896, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who was the Populist candidate? Who won?
What island was the focus of the difficulties that led to the Spanish-American War? What role did the battleship Maine play in the events that led to the Spanish-American War? What role did the major newspapers play in these events?
Who was William Randolph Hearst? What was his role in the coming of the Spanish-American War?
What territories did the United States gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?
In the presidential election of 1900, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who won?
What happened to President McKinley at the 1901 Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY? Who did it?
Who was Theodore Roosevelt? What sort of president was he?
What was the Great White Fleet? Who sent it around the world? Why?
What events increased U.S. eagerness to build a trans-isthmian canal? What U.S. president took the lead in acquiring such a canal?
What was the U.S. role in helping Panama win its independence from Colombia? Why did this come about?
Who won the presidential election of 1908? To what party did he belong?
In the presidential election of 1912, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate? Who was the Progressive candidate? What was the nickname of the Progressive Party? Who won the election and became president?
How did World War I begin? How did the U.S. gradually come to be involved in it?
What major British passenger liner was sunk by a German submarine with significant loss of American lives?
What pledges did the German government make on the subject of submarine attacks on civilians vessels?
Who was Woodrow Wilson? What was his chief ideal (virtual mantra)? How did he feel about the U.S. Constitution? How did he feel about himself? What was his attitude toward the countries of Latin America? What was his slogan in the 1916 election campaign?
What was the Zimmermann Telegram? What was its significance?
What change in German policy in early 1917 helped bring the U.S. into World War I?
What were Wilson’s two slogans for World War I? What was his program for re-making the post-war world?
In what ways did the U.S. government’s management of the war effort during the First World War fit the concepts of Progressivism?
What was the War Industries Board? Who headed it?
What was the Committee on Public Information? Who headed it?
What did the Supreme Court decide regarding the Sedition Act of 1918?
What were the major battles in which U.S. forces were engaged during World War I?
What treaty ended World War I? What part of it was most important to Wilson? Why were some Senators reluctant to ratify the treaty? What approach did Wilson take to win them over? What was the result?
Who was the leader of the Senate faction completely opposed to the Treaty of Versailles? What was the name of this faction?
Who was the leader of the Senate faction that would accept the Treaty of Versailles only with modifications? What was the name of this faction?
What was the “Red Scare”? Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What did he do?
Who was the Democratic candidate in the election of 1920? Who was the Republican? What was the main issue between them? Who won?
What word best expressed Harding’s position in the election of 1920?