US EOC Review Study Guide – Discussion Questions War and Reconstruction What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What was the significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Who was John Brown? Describe the Southern Strategy to win the Civil War. Describe the Northern Strategy to win the War. What happened at Appomattox court house? What were the different Reconstruction plans? How did the South react to Reconstruction? What were the Reconstruction Amendments and what did they do? Western Settlement/Industrialization did people move West? was the purpose of the Homestead Act? of the Battle of Wounded Knee? of the Dawes Act? D. Rockefeller? Carnegie? Morgan? Vanderbilt? Mobilier scandal? did laissez-faire beliefs protect the industrialists? were the goals of the early labor unions? did businesses not like labor unions? How did they try to prevent their growth? was the AFL? Immigration did most immigrants come from in the 1890? was the difference between Ellis and Angel Island? did the Chinese Exclusion Act do? Gilded Age and Early Reform did settlement houses do? was the Social Gospel movement? was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-trust act? problems did farmers face? did farmers and others join the populists? Silverites? of Gold? of Plessey v. Ferguson? B. Wells? T. Washington vs W.E.B. Dubois? Imperialism is meant by the “white man’s burden”? influenced Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy? How did he use it? did yellow journalism cause the Spanish-American war? is jingoism? were the rough riders? did the Platt Amendment do? are the arguments for Imperialism in America? the Open door policy and the Gentleman’s’ agreement? was the purpose of the Roosevelt corollary? Diplomacy? Progressivism was progressivism? were the muckrakers? was the Jungle the other half lives? was Ida Tarbell? were some reforms of the Progressive Era? 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments? was Eugene Debs? happened at the Niagara Falls Conference? Trial
World War 1 were the causes? Pledge? telegram used? and Sedition Act? v US? of Versailles? fourteen points? at home? Scare occurred because __________________ was A. Mitchell Palmer? did Coolidge promise and why? The 1920s/Jazz Age nativism. was the significance of the Sacco & Vanzetti case? was the Scopes about? did the Volstead Act do? did the Emergency Quota Act do? did the Great Migration occur? was the Harlem Renaissance? was Marcus Garvey? the effects of mass media in the 1920s. were some signs of a faltering economy in the 1920s? Ford: Lindbergh: were some issues with Warren G. Harding’s presidency? were some treaties like the Kellogg-Briand Pact hard to enforce? did America become more isolationist? The Depression & The New Deal were some causes of the Great depression? was a Hooverville? caused the Dust Bowl? was The Grapes of Wrath about? did Hoover respond to the Great depression? did veterans March on Washington? were four components of the First New Deal? were three major components of the 2nd New Deal? did FDR face criticism during his second term? World War II did so many dictators rise in power in Europe? did the Nye Committee report do? the American neutrality acts. was the purpose of the Munich Conference? did Americans at home help with the war effort? was the Bracero Program? were Japanese Americans civil liberties affected during the war? was the purpose of island hopping? What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project? What was the purpose of Operation Overlord? Why did Truman choose to drop the atomic bomb? What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trial?