US History II

Study Guide

Spring, 2006

This study guide is designed to help you with the upcoming midterm on 14 February. While this study guide is short answer, the midterm will be multiple choice.

If you complete this guide accurately and study it well, you will find the midterm an enjoyable exercise. (Really!)

  1. Who was the president during the first years of Reconstruction?
  2. Which Civil War general later became president in 1868?
  3. Which U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania was known as the leader of the Radical Republicans?
  4. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave citizenship to all blacks in the U.S.?
  5. What term did Southerners use for Northerners who came south seeking land and power during Reconstruction?
  6. Who was the first president to face impeachment?
  7. Name the Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase of Alaska.
  8. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave all American males the right to vote?
  9. Who was head of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City during Reconstruction?
  10. Which U.S. President "won" the 1876 election by promising to end Reconstruction?
  11. Name the first federal regulatory commission.
  12. Name the man who built Standard Oil into the nation's first real monopoly.
  13. Who invented the telephone?
  14. Who invented the phonograph?
  15. Who led the Noble and Bold Order of the Knights of Labor?
  16. What man organized the American Federation of Labor in 1886?
  17. What act of Congress split the Indian reservations into 160-acre farms?
  18. Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
  19. Who was the only person to serve as U.S. President for non-consecutive terms?
  20. Which city opened the first subway in 1897?
  21. Who developed the skyscraper?
  22. What was the predominant form of city government during the 1880's?
  23. Who was the "machine" ward leader who later became mayor of Boston? (Hint: He was John F. Kennedy's grandfather.)
  24. What was the name of the institution Jane Addams opened in Chicago in 1889 to help immigrants?
  25. What was the name of the misuse of Darwin's theories when applied to society?
  26. Who was the most famous member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union? (She was famous for her hatchet.)
  27. What was Alfred Mahan's influential book that persuaded some Americans of the necessity of becoming a colonial power?
  28. Which harbor did the U.S. Navy gain as a naval base in 1887?
  29. Which tariff act ended the Hawaiian concessions in 1890?
  30. What alliance was the outgrowth of the Grange movement of the 1870's?
  31. What was the political party that emerged from the Farmers Alliance?
  32. Who proposed the "subtreasury" plan?
  33. Which railroad company suffered a strike in 1894 that spread into a nationwide disaster? (p. 571)
  34. What was the name of the philosophy, espoused by William James of Harvard, that stated truth must demonstrate its value in the real world? (p. 579)
  35. What Supreme Court decision in 1896 confirmed the doctrine of "separate but equal" that enshrined segregation? (p. 581)
  36. What was the term given to sensationalistic newspapers that inflamed public opinion in the 1890's? (p. 583)
  37. Who was the Republican nominee (and eventual president) in the 1896 election? (p. 584)
  38. Which Democratic nominee said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"? (p. 585)
  39. What was the name of the U.S. battleship that exploded in Havana harbor in 1898? (p. 588)
  40. Who led the U.S. fleet into Manila Bay in 1898 and defeated the Spanish fleet based there? (p. 589)
  41. What was the first island chain annexed during the Spanish-American War? (p. 590)
  42. Who led the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill? (p. 591)
  43. Which U.S. Secretary of State issued the Open Door policy regarding China? (p. 594)
  44. Who was President McKinley's running mate in the 1900 election? (p. 595)
  45. Who was the youngest man to become President? (p. 599. Note: JFK was the youngest man elected President of the U.S.)
  46. Who created the Model T? (p. 603)
  47. Which company began with mail-order watches and built its sales with catalogues? (p. 604)
  48. Who led the Niagra Falls Conference in 1905 to protest segregation? (pp. 606-607)
  49. Who bought Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel in the process? (pp. 607-608)
  50. What was Roosevelt's approach to labor unrest that called for treating capital and labor on an equal basis? (p. 609)
  51. What adage summarized Roosevelt's foreign policy? (p. 609)
  52. What treaty led to the construction of a canal across Panama? (p. 610)
  53. Which treaty brokered by President Roosevelt ended the Russo-Japanese War? (p. 620)
  54. Which President served as president of Princeton University prior to serving as President of the United States? (p. 641)
  55. What Act of Congress created the Federal Reserve Board and a central banking system for the country? (p. 645)
  56. Whose assassination triggered World War I? (p. 654)
  57. Which British oceanliner was sunk in 1915, killing 128 Americans? (p. 659)
  58. What telegram between Germany and Mexico sought to bring Mexico into World War I against the United States? (p. 670)
  59. Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)? (p. 673)
  60. Which amendment banned the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.? (p. 674)
  61. On what day did World War I end? (p. 681)
  62. What was Wilson's program to end World War I? (p. 681)
  63. What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I between the Allies and Germany? (p. 684)
  64. What amendment gave women the right to vote? (p. 687; A-17 in the Appendix in back of book)
  65. Who was president during the Teapot Dome scandal? (p. 703)
  66. Who represented John Scopes in his trial in 1925? (p. 709)
  67. What was George Ruth's more popular nickname? (p. 712)
  68. What treaty, signed under Calvin Coolidge's presidency, "outlawed" war? (p. 715)
  69. Who won the presidency in 1928? (p. 723)
  70. What day is seen as the beginning of the Great Depression? (p. 725)
  71. What was the name of shantytowns outside cities built during the Depression? (p. 735)
  72. Name the person who said the following: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
  73. Name the person who said the following: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
  74. Name the person who said the following: "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
  75. Name the person who gave the following definition of chronological snobbery: "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to your own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited."