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History 122
Midterm Study Guide
Module 1 -Reconstruction

1. Identify the artist’s message in the cartoon above. Include symbolism and
contextualization.

2. Describe how various elements of the Federal Government responded to

actions and events like those depicted in the cartoon above.

3. Identify the short-term and long-term successes and failures of

Reconstruction.
(include 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Jim Crow, sharecropping, convict
leasing, vagrancy laws, Black Codes)

successes failures

Short Term

Long Term
 4. Place each of the Reconstruction Plans on the spectrum below. Provide brief
support/details to justify your response: President Lincoln, President Johnson,
Moderate Republicans, Radical Republicans (include Freedmen’s Bureau in
your justification)

Harsh & Long Lenient &

5. Explain the outcome of the Election of 1876. (include short term and long
term effects)
Short term: Long term:

6. How did each of the following groups respond to the passage of the 15th
amendment:
a. Freemen

b. Southern Democrats

c. Women Suffragists

Module 1 - Gilded Age

1. Identify PUSH/PULL factors that motivated migrants to the American West

during the second half of the nineteenth century. (Provide evidence and
examples)
 2. Which
reformer
and
activities
attempted
to reveal
the truths

surrounding issues depicted in the graph above? Describe the factors and
conditions that affected the crimes shown in the graph. (Include: Lost
Cause in your response.

3. Identify EACH of the following philosophies AND describe how these idea
correlate to the events of the Gilded Age:
a. Social Darwinism

b. Gospel of Wealth

c. Social Gospel

4. Identify FIVE specific elements of the Populist Omaha Platform.

a. d.
b. e.
c.
 a. b.
5. Identify and explain how each image above depicts the idea of Captains of
Industry or Robber Barons. (be certain to include the negative & positive
effects of trusts/monopolies)
a.

b.

6. Identify ALL factors resulting in the unprecedented economic growth of the

Gilded Age:
a. Land -

b. Labor - (include “old” & “new”)

c. Entrepreneurship - (include Carnegie. Edison)

d. Capital -

7. Describe the cause and results of THREE labor strikes of the Gilded Age.
a.

b.

c.

8. Describe major changes for each of the following western industries during
the Gilded Age:
a. Farming

b. Ranching (include barbed wire)

c. Mining
 9. Describe the positive and negative effects of the railroad industry during the
Gilded Age.
a. Positive

b. Negative

10.Relate Frederic Jackson Turner’s Thesis to each image above:

11.Identify the speaker and meaning behind the following quote:

“Kill the Indian and save the man”

12.Describe the causes and impact of each of the following:

a. Carlisle School

b. Wounded Knee (include Ghost Dance)

c. Sand Creek Massacre

13.Which immigrants were targeted by the first anti-immigrant legislation in

US History? Why?

Module 2 - Imperialism, Progressive Era, WWI

1. Place the following event in the correct order AND briefly explain how the events are
related/correlate.
 ___ Philippines American War
Explanation & Connection
___Open Door Policy (included yellow journalism, Aguinaldo,
spheres of influence, Teller & Platt)
___Spanish American War

2. Describe each foreign policy below AND include specific examples:

a. Big Stick Diplomacy: (include Panama, Mahan, Roosevelt Corollary)

b. Dollar Diplomacy:

c. Moral or Missionary Diplomacy: (include Pancho Villa)

3. To what degree were Wilson’s goals at the Versailles Treaty realized?

Explain! (include 14 Points, Big Four, and League of Nations)

4. What factors contributed US entry into World War I:

a. National security

b. Trade

c. Diplomacy
5. Identify the goals, strategies, and accomplishments of the National Women's
Party.

6. Identify and provide examples of the Muckrakers of the Progressive Era.

(provide at least 4 examples)

7. Identify and describe the purpose and impact of each of the Progressive
Amendments:
 a. 16th Amendment

b. 17th Amendment

c. 18th Amendment

d. 19th Amendment

8. Describe the purpose and impact of Jim Crow Laws in the American South.
(Include Plessy v. Ferguson)

9. Describe the impact of World War I on each of the following groups or

policies in the United States. (Include Espionage & Sedition Acts, Schenck v.
US, CPI, WPB, NWLB)
a. Women

b. African Americans

c. Mexicans Americans
d. Eastern/Southern Europeans immigrants

e. Socialists & anti-war protesters

f. Big business

g. Labor unions

10. Complete the Venn Diagram below:

Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

Module 3 - 1920s
1. What were the characteristics of the flappers?

2. The Scopes Trial was a clash of views – what were these conflicting views?

3. What was Prohibition?

a. What did people do despite Prohibition?

b. What negative aspect of Prohibition arose in terms of crime?

i. Who were these new criminals?

ii. Who was the most famous criminal?

4. Identify FOUR major figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the significance
of the movement.

5. Describe the cultural and economic impact of the automobile in 1920s

America:
a. Cultural

b. Economic

6. Did the Republican Party of 1920s America represent change or continuity

in the role of the US government? Be specific!!
a. Political

b. Economic
7. Describe how each of the following relates to the images above:
a. Ku Klux Klan

b. Palmer Raids & Red Scare

c. National Origins Act & Immigration Act 1924

8. To what degree was the radio and important invention to 1920s America?
a. Communication

b. Economics
c. Culture

d. Politics (include Huey

Long)
Module 3 -Great Depression

1. Identify how each factor below contributed to the start of the Great Depression:

a. 1920s Republican Presidential Policies

b. Stock Market

c. Farm Sector

d. International economic factors

2. Describe the different responses to the Bonus Army:

a. President Hoover

b. President Roosevelt

3. Complete the Venn Diagram below:

First New Deal Second New Deal

4. Identify the meaning of each New Deal promise/plan: (provide examples of each)
a. Relief

b. Reform
 c. Recovery

5. Describe the purpose and importance of the “Fireside Chats.”

6. Describe the effects of the Great Depression:

a. Unemployment -

b. Farmers -

c. Families -

d. Banks -

e. Confidence -

7. Complete the Venn Diagram below by comparing the presidential approaches to the Great
Depression:

President
President Hoover
Roosevelt

8. To what extent was the New Deal effective in

ending the Great Depression? Be specific!
9. Identify the meaning and symbolism of the cartoon.