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Final Exam Review

Listed below are a review of major topics of study for each of the four units this trimester

Unit One

• Declaration of Independence 

• FRED J values

• Other voices  challenging the meaning of FRED J(Abigail Adams, David Walker)

• Causes of the American Revolution

• Shays’ Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention and Compromise (Great, ⅗)

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson’s views and philosophies

• Alexander Hamilton views and philosophies

• Election of 1800

• Andrew Jackson’s domestic affairs - King or Common Man

• Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears

• Westward expansion and Manifest destiny 

• Reform movements for women, African American and Native American rights

• Know-Nothing Party

• Waves of Immigration

• Nativism

Unit Two

• Active vs passive resistance 

• Frederick Douglas - What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

• Abolitionist Movement

• Founding Documents on Slavery

• Missouri Compromise (1820)

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Popular sovereignty, Bleeding Kansas

• Dred Scott Case

• John Brown - Fanatic or Freedom Fighter

• Northern vs Southern advantages in the war

• Battle of Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address

• Field Order 15/Forty Acres and a Mule

• Reconstruction

• 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

• Black Codes

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Presidential vs Congressional Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson and his Reconstruction plan

• Thaddeus Stevens and Radical Republicans

• Interracial Democracy during Reconstruction

• The South under Congressional Reconstruction

• Why does Reconstruction End?

• Supreme Court and the End of Reconstruction

• Compromise of 1877

• Sharecropping

Unit Three

• Protestant Work Ethic

• Horatio Alger and Rags to Riches

• Captains/Titans of Industry vs Robber Baron? 

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers

• Background on Labor Unions

• Homestead - Pullman Strikes

• Farming/Parallels to the workers 

  • Inflation vs Deflation

• Populists

• Upton Sinclair-The Jungle

• Muckraking

• Laissez Faire 

• Progressivism (Who were the progressives and problem/solutions)

  • Mobilizing for Reform (GrassRoots Progressivism  and Social Gospel Movement)

  • Environmentalism (John Muir, National Parks and health/sanitation improvements

  • Trusts (Sherman and Clayton Act)

  • Women’s Movement  (Temperance, Suffrage, Settlement Houses)

• Entry to World War 1 (M.A.I.N causes and U.S. reasons for entry)

• Homefront

• Propaganda, George Creel and CPI

• Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points, League of Nations and a Flawed Peace

• Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

• Sacco and Vanzetti

Unit Four

• Harding - Coolidge - Hoover approach to government

• The Business of America - in practice and in popular culture

• Development of a consumer society and culture 

• Buying on Credit

• Taylorism and Scientific Management

• Welfare Capitalism and Ford Five Dollar Day

• Effect of the Automobile on American economy and society

• Charlie Chaplin and Modern Times

• Advertising in the 1920s - Creating Incentives

• Clash of Cultures - Old vs New - Modern vs Traditional - Rural vs Urban

• Prohibition - Immigration Restriction/Klan - New Women - Scopes Trial as a clash of cultures

• Push and Pull Factors of Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance and the African American experience in 1920s America

• Modern Women - Rise of the Flapper and reactions for and against