AMSTA Exam Review

A New Industrial Age: Chapter 6

  1. What are horizontal and vertical Integration, and how do they impact competition?

  2. What industry did Andrew Carnegie work in? Did he use vertical integration, horizontal integration, or the assembly line?

  3. What Industry did John D. Rockefeller work in? Did he use vertical integration, horizontal integration, or the assembly line?

  4. What is Laissez-Faire economics? What impact did they have on the industrial revolution?

  5. What is Social Darwinism? What type of individuals supported the philosophy of Social Darwinism and why?

  6. Identify and explain the conflicts between big businesses and labor tactics both sides used.

  7. Describe collective bargaining and striking and how they were used by Labor Unions.

  8. How did industrialization impact division in the social classes?
    Immigrant and Urbanization: Chapter 7

  1. Describe the Progressive Voting Reforms. Why would political machines have disliked some of these ideas?

  2. Understand the Political Corruption taking place during the Industrial Revolution, highlighting the individual terms: William “Boss” Tweed, Thomas Nast (and how he went after Tweed), Tammany Hall and the Tammany Ring.

  3. Immigration Difficulties:

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Americanization

  • Jacob Riss and Tenement housing

  • The Statue of Liberty welcomed people when they arrived at what famous immigrant checkpoint? The statue has engraved on it “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send those, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” What is the attitude towards immigration expressed in this quote? Did it match the actions of our country at this time?

  • Define Americanization and give an example of it occurring within one of the units we learned about this trimester.

  • In what ways did immigrants assimilate and struggle to assimilate into American culture? Include in your answer elements of their old culture they held onto after moving to America.

  • In what ways did political machines and immigrants help one another?
    Life at the Turn of the 20th Century: Chapter 8

  1. Segregation and Discrimination

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

  • Jim Crow Laws (know when they ended)

  • Literacy Tests

  • Poll Tax

  • Grandfather Clause

Progressives: Chapter 9

  1. Explain the Square Deal. Including: which president created it. What it was (summary). As well as the strategies it used to protect consumers and to preserve natural resources. Know the influence Upton Sinclair and John Muir had on the Square Deal.

  2. How did muckraking journalists, like Upton Sinclair, impact social change?

  3. Explain the outcome of the election of 1912. Include in your answer an explanation of the different political parties running and the impact a new political party had on the election.

  4. What was the Federal Reserve Act?

  5. What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?

  6. Identify why the following Amendments are considered Progressive:

  • 16th

  • 17th

  • 18th

  • 19th 

America Expands: Chapter 10

  1. Define Imperialism.

  2. What do the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary say regarding the U.S. and imperialism?

  3. Explain the Open Door Notes/ Policy and where it was used.

  4. What was Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy strategy? What quote is often used to summarize his ideas?

  5. Identify and explain the causes of the United States entry into the Spanish American war and the influence that yellow journalism played.

  6. Identify and explain specific details surrounding the construction of the Panama Canal (President in charge, foreign policy used, countries involved, what it did). 

World War l: Chapter 11

  1. Identify and explain the significant (M.A.I.N) causes of WWI

  2. Identify the style of warfare in WWI and how it impacted the war  

  3. What is the Zimmerman Note? How did it impact American neutrality?

  4. Explain the U.S. mobilization using terms such as:

  • Selective Service Act

  • Liberty Bonds/Victory Bonds

  • Victory Gardens

  • Rationing/conserving food

  1. Identify and explain significant details of Schenk v. U.S. and the impact it had on WWI. Know which amendment was brought into question with this case.

  2. How did exported goods play a role in the United States entry into WWI?

  3. America joined WWI late. Were we impactful to the war effort? Explain.

  4. Identify specific locations and events that played a role in WWI, such as:

  • Allied and Central Powers- know the location of the countries that were involved in the war.

  • Western and Eastern Fronts

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Germany U-Boat activity

  1. Which country switched sides during the war?

  2. Explain the Treaty of Versailles. Including: who made the treaty, who signed it, who was made to sign it, the major impacts it had, its faults, and the creation of the League of Nations post WWI?

  3. Explain why some leaders opposed the League of Nations and therefore the Treaty of Versailles?

The 1920’s: Chapters 12 and 13

  1. Explain the time period known as the Red Scare and the tactics used by Mitchell Palmer to solve the problems of so-called communism and radicalism in America. What would Palmer have called for in terms of immigration policies of the country?

  2. What did Marcus Garvey want for African Americans in the 1920’s? 

  3. What was the Harlem Renaissance? How did it impact Black Culture?

  4. Identify and explain the impact of the automobile on families during the 1920s and how Henry Ford and the assembly line helped revolutionize this era. Be able to make connections between the growth of people having individual cars and how this impacts life for different groups of people.

  5. How did social roles for women change during the 1920s?

  6. Identify some of the pro-business decisions and tactics of President Coolidge. 

  7. Identify the differences between traditionalist/fundamentalists and modernist and what their opinions would have been when debating the Scopes Monkey Trial.

  8. What were the goals of immigration laws at this time?

Depression and New Deal: Chapters 14 and 15

  1. What major natural event added to the pressure of the Great Depression for the rural/farming sector of our society?

  2. Explain Hoover’s philosophies on getting America out of the Great Depression. Be sure to include his beliefs on direct federal relief, voluntary cooperation, and rugged individualism in your answer.

  3. What were Hoovervilles?

  4. What strategy did FDR take towards ending the Great Depression? Know the name of his plan and how he went about accomplishing his goals. Be able to summarize some policies he created to achieve these goals. 

  5. What event led to the creation of the Social Security Act? In what ways did the SSA supposed to provide a direct protection against another economic fallout like the one that created it?

  6. Was FDR successful in ending the Great Depression?

World War II: Chapters 16 and 17

  1. What post WWI decisions led to WWII and why? (mention the Treaty of Versailles in your answer).

  2. What impact did the lend lease act have on the entrance of the United States into WWII?

  3. List the events of Pearl Harbor and its importance to WWII.

  4. What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII? What was this unjust?

  5. How was rationing used in WWII? What were the purposes of rationing food?

  6. Explain the term “holocaust” and identify the people impacted by these events (people groups who were attacked and where they were from).

  7. Identify where the atomic bomb was dropped

  • What were the consequences of the bomb?