The Unit Exam
consists primarily of multiple choice questions in sets with different possible
questions. The total value is 100 points. There are 25 questions in sets each at 4 points:
·
8 of the 25 questions come from the Learning
Quizzes (and those concepts in the Learning Quizzes help you understand the
content in the Unit)
·
17 of them come from below.
The 5 Ws
rule is a good guide to understanding the items below: you should know Who, What,
When, Where, and Why—and
sometimes How.
The Instructor’s Lessons provide visuals, frequently in
tables, to help you compare facts to see similarities and differences. Use the Learning Quizzes listed before you use the Lesson.
Key
background on the Gilded Age—and the future 1.
13th amendment 2.
Defeat of the South, but Andrew Johnson 3.
Southern black codes and race riots 4.
Reconstruction 5.
14th amendment ·
“due process” and states ·
citizenship - and why necessary 6.
15th amendment 7.
Election of 1876, Compromise of 1877, and troops ------------------------------------------------- Lesson 1 –Use its 3 Learning Quizzes
1st Gilded
Age (meaning of the term) 8.
Republican Party, policy pre-Civil War/post-secession 9.
Technology 1877-1887 (mainly for new industries) tenements, about new industries 10.
Child labor, urban growth, electricity and consequences on industry
and cities, , and immigration 11.
Prohibition (WCTU) – President Frances Willard (gender?) 12.
Republican party, early years of Gilded Age – pro-business,
pro-protective tariff, lobbying of, bribing of, “sound money” 13.
Rise of Industrial Capitalism and: ·
Rockefeller and his industry ·
Carnegie and his industry ·
Horizontal integration / vertical integration ·
Monopoly, trust 14.
Rise of financial capitalism and J.P. Morgan 15.
North, workers in big business ·
Average work week/pay/living costs for laborers ·
Child labor – why? ·
Types of Unions 16.
South and West, farmers ·
Anti-protective tariff since sell in free market and buy in protected
one (what’s the consequence?) ·
Traits, including differences in debt and crops 17.
South, farmers ·
Crop-lien system, results of ·
Traits of segregation in
the South after 1880 18.
West, Native Americans including changes in west with the
transcontinental railroad and--in 1887 – Dawes Severalty Act and subdividing
their lands into small farms (of poor land) and selling the rest to whites. 19.
West, policies about Chinese, ban on immigration 20.
Segregation – shift in African American leaders ·
W. E. B. Du Bois – views, NAACP founder ·
B. T. Washington, views, statements at the Atlantic Compromise. 21.
Segregation – Supreme Court in the 1890s ·
Plessy v. Ferguson ·
Justice Harlan on that case |
22.
Technology 1887-1893 23.
Movements: ·
Social Gospel ·
Charles Darwin and evolution ·
Herbert Spenser, Social Darwinism, “survival of the fittest” 24.
1890s “new immigration” – their
religions and , where they came from, and locations in Europe and the revival
of nativism 25.
Gilded Age government (corporate-dominated, bribery, bossism in city
government) 26.
Actions forced on Congress ·
Interstate Commerce Act ·
Pendleton Civil Service Act – and Garfield and spoils system ·
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 27.
Rise of the Populists, beginnings as Grangers and Granger laws and
Farmers Alliance (in South and West), state
laws about railroads 28.
Panic of 1893, Cleveland, and “sound money” versus silver 29.
The Elections of the 1890s ·
Republican Party, “sound money” as opposition to Populists ·
Election of 1892, regions and races supporting Populists ·
Election of 1892, success of Populists as a 3rd party ·
Election of 1896, Republicans’ methods (Mark Hanna), Democrats’ “dark
horse” W.J. Bryan, and the Cross of Gold Speech 30.
Shifts to Colonies External to the Continental United States ·
Alfred Thayer Mahon, Influence
of Sea Power ·
Alaska, Seward’s Folly, and later value ·
19th century imperialism and supports from prior movements
like manifest destiny ·
Yellow journalism, Pulitzer and Hearst 31.
Hawaii. coup by Sanford Dole and proposed annexation 32.
Cuba ·
Rough Riders ·
Cuba and Teller Amendment ·
Cuba and the Platt Amendment (and the future, Guantanamo) 33.
Territories gained from Spanish American War—and not gained 34.
Philippines ·
resistance to US ·
Philippines and Anti-Imperialist League 35.
China ·
Nationalism and Boxers ·
Open Door Policy and Secretary of State John Hayes |