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This document provides a review for a U.S. History II mid-term exam covering topics from Westward Expansion to World War II. It lists the chapters and sections that will be covered, including key topics like the Indian Massacres, Industrialization, Progressivism, Imperialism, and World Wars I and II. The exam will consist of short answer questions, extended response questions, and document-based questions. Students are instructed to study their notes, textbooks, and previous tests and quizzes in preparation for the exam and a review on Friday and Monday.

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Mid-Term Exam Review Sheet

This document provides a review for a U.S. History II mid-term exam covering topics from Westward Expansion to World War II. It lists the chapters and sections that will be covered, including key topics like the Indian Massacres, Industrialization, Progressivism, Imperialism, and World Wars I and II. The exam will consist of short answer questions, extended response questions, and document-based questions. Students are instructed to study their notes, textbooks, and previous tests and quizzes in preparation for the exam and a review on Friday and Monday.

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U.S. History II – Mr.

Hyer
Mid-Term Exam Review
This comprehensive mid-term exam will touch upon all subjects we have studied since the beginning of
September to this week. All the questions will be short answer and extended response. Several questions will
involve primary documents. (You’ll either know it or not) The majority of questions will be based upon your
general knowledge of U.S. history from Westward Expansion to the World war II. This is a two-hour test.
The following is a general overview of the topics we have covered. Make sure you understand the general
concepts and key points of these topics. Make sure you study from all of your previous quizzes, tests, and
handouts. Several of the short answer questions come directly from these documents.
NOTE: Just because a topic isn’t listed doesn’t mean it won’t be on the test.
There will be a review days on Friday and Monday. Your assignment during the rest of this week is to
study the topics on this list, review your notes and handouts, skim through the textbook chapters, and write
down any questions to ask me on these days. Also, I am planning to stay late after school on Thursday.

Chapter 13: Changes on the Western Frontier


Section 1: Indian Massacres, Buffalo Destruction, Custer’s Last Stand, Dawes Act, Chisholm Trail, Cowboys
Section 2: Homestead Act, Challenges facing Homesteaders, Debts and Farmers
Section 3: Railroads overcharging farmers, Populist movement, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech

Chapter 14: A New Industrial Age


Section 1: New Inventions spur industrialization / innovations, Electricity, Thomas Edison
Section 2: Transcontinental Railroad, Railroad time, Interstate Commerce Act, Railroad monopolies
Section 3: Social Darwinism, Vertical & Horizontal integration, Rockefeller, Robber Barons, Sherman Antitrust
Act, Labor Unions, Labor Strikes

Chapter 15: Immigrants and Urbanization


Section 1: European and Asian Immigration patterns, Ellis Island, Nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act

Chapter 17: The Progressive Era


Section 1: Goals of Progressivism, Prohibition, Muckrakers, Child Labor, Seventeenth Amendment
Section 2: Suffrage Movement, Rise of Women’s Social Status
Section 3: Teddy Roosevelt, Square Deal, Trustbusting, 1902 Coal Strike, Railroad Regulation, Meat Inspection
Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Conservation Act, NAACP
Section 4: William Taft, Taft’s departure from Progressive Movement, Bull Moose Party, 1912 Election
Section 5: Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom, Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve
System, Nineteenth Amendment, WWI ends Progressive Movement

Chapter 18: America Claims an Empire


Section 1: Imperialism, Alaska, Hawaii
Section 2: The Spanish-American War
Section 3: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines, China
Section 4: Teddy Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Mexico, Latin America

Chapter 19: The First World War


Section 1: Causes of WWI, Opening Battles/results, American neutrality, U-boats
Section 2: U.S. entry into WWI, weapons, war’s hazards, results
Section 3: War economy, propaganda, financing the war, civil liberties, espionage & sedition acts,
Section 4: Fourteen Points, Big Four, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, WWI’s legacy
-- OVER –
Chapter 24: World War Looms
Section 1: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Fascism, Nazism, American Isolationism, Neutrality Acts, Failure of the
Treaty of Versailles
Section 2: Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Blitzkrieg, appeasement, France and Britain in war
Section 4: Axis Powers, Lend-Lease Plan, Atlantic Charter, Tojo and Japan, Pearl Harbor attacked

Chapter 25: The U.S. in World War II


Section 2: Battle of Atlantic, Stalingrad, Eisenhower, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Truman Takes Over
Section 3: MacArthur and Island Hopping, Battle of Midway, atomic bomb, V-J day, Yalta Conference,
Nuremberg War Trials

Short Answer (30%) Make sure you understand the following terms and people
• Who was the Bull Moose Candidate?
• Which three presidents served during the Progressive Era?
• What brought the Progressive Era to an end?
• Which president served during WWI? WWII?
• What was the European turning point battle during WWII?
• How did the novel, The Jungle, increase the size and power of the government?
• Understand why Treaty of Versailles failed?
• What does Island Hopping refer to? What was its purpose?
• Who were the major Axis powers in World War II?

Extended Response and Document-based Questions (70%) Make sure you can
explain the following topics using specific details in a couple of paragraphs.
ϑ Several reasons why the U.S. government’s policy of Native American assimilation failed.
ϑ How the industrialists’ actions helped and hurt the United States during the Industrial Age.
ϑ Know several of “Teddy” Roosevelt’s progressive actions and events.
ϑ Understand how the U.S. increased its world-wide power during the Age of Imperialism.
ϑ Be able to summarize the major accomplishments of Progressivism.
ϑ Know what the poem “The New Colossus” represents.
ϑ Understand the course and significance of President Wilson’s wartime diplomacy, including his
Fourteen Points, the League of Nations, and the failure of the Treaty of Versailles.
ϑ Know how World War II is directly connected with World War I?
ϑ Understand the role the United States played in World War II. Why did Truman consider it necessary to
drop two atomic bombs on Japan?

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