Midterm+Reveiw


 * __Unit I - The 2nd Industrial Revolution__**
 * 1) What is an industrial revolution?
 * 2) Railroads, oil, steel
 * 3) social Darwinism
 * 4) Capitalism
 * 5) Urbanization
 * 6) Entrepreneur
 * 7) Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
 * 8) Rockefeller, __Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt__
 * 9) monopoly and trusts
 * 10) Union
 * 11) Chinese Exclusion Act
 * 12) Tenements
 * 13) __Political Machines__
 * 14) Ellis Island

__Unit II - The Progressive Era__

 * 1) Progressivism / Progressives / Progressive Era
 * 2) muckrakers
 * 3) Jacob Riis / How the Other Half Lives
 * 4) Ida Tarbell
 * 5) Lincoln Steffens
 * 6) __Upton Sinclair / The Jungle__
 * 7) Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act
 * 8) __15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments__
 * 9) __initiative, referendum, recall - election reforms__
 * 10) __prohibition__
 * 11) __Susan B Anthony__
 * 12) __suffrage / suffragists__
 * 13) Theodore Roosevelt
 * 14) __Square Deal__
 * 15) __trust-busting / Sherman Antitrust Act / Clayton Antitrust Act__
 * 16) __Federal Reserve Act__

__Unit III - American Imperialism__

 * 1) What is imperialism?
 * 2) Imperialist
 * 3) Motivations for imperialism
 * 4) social Darwinism
 * 5) The Spanish-American War
 * 6) Causes of the war - Cuba, USS Maine
 * 7) Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
 * 8) William Randolph Hearst / yellow journalism
 * 9) de Lome Letter
 * 10) Theodore Roosevelt / Rough Riders
 * 11) Outcomes of the S-A War
 * 12) Debate over annexing the Philippines

__Unit IV - American in World War I__

 * 1) Background causes of WWI
 * 2) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
 * 3) trench warfare
 * 4) __neutrality & isolationism__
 * 5) Allied vs. Central Powers
 * 6) Reasons the U.S. joined the war
 * 7) German unrestricted sub warfare / the Lusitania
 * 8) the Zimmerman note/telegram
 * 9) __the Home Front__
 * 10) Selective Service Act
 * 11) __Liberty Bonds__
 * 12) __National War Labor Board__
 * 13) __Propaganda / Committee on Public Information__
 * 14) rationing
 * 15) Woodrow Wilson
 * 16) 14 points
 * 17) Treaty of Versailles
 * 18) League of Nations