U.S. History 1302 Online

Study Guide for the 
Midterm Exam

The Midterm Exam is a challenging test.

Students who wish to be successful on this challenging exam should plan for adequate preparation.  That may vary somewhat, based upon each student's individual strengths, but at the very minimum, each student should read all of the assigned chapters thoughtfully and completely.  Some may need to read them more than once.  All should supplement their memory with note-taking.  The following topics are presented to aid in that endeavor.  Looking up the terms on this study guide cannot substitute for a careful reading of the text, however. 

A firm understanding of the topics below will be essential to success on the Midterm Exam.  The chapter headings refer to your assigned readings in Divine, et al, The American Story Vol. II, 3rd Ed..

Chapter 16

• Reconstruction’s legacy for African Americans
• Freedmen’s majority occupation, 1865
• Southern African American office-holders' political efforts
• Disputed presidential election, 1876
• Reconstruction Amendments (13^th, 14^th, and 15^th)

Chapter 17

• Money issue of the 1870s-1880s
• the economic and cultural foundation of Plains tribes
• First major industry in the American West
• Farming in the American West
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• Major U.S. policy changes towards the Native tribes
• National Grange
• Sioux
• Comanche
• Hopi
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Chief Black Kettle

Chapter 18

• Government’s affect on industrial growth
• Major factors in American industrial development
• Significance of a national railway system
• Role of government in railroad building
• Late 19^th century nationwide retailers
• Haymarket Square riot
• Knights of Labor
• Terence Powderly
• Samuel Gompers
• Eugene Debs
• The Great Strike of 1877

Chapter 19

• Late 19^th century religious affiliations
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Booker T. Washington
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• The “new immigrants"
• "Social Gospel"

Chapter 20

• “Free silver”
• Depression of 1890s
• Unemployment rate in 1894
• Pullman Strike
• Farmers’ Alliance movement
• Populist Party platform demands
• The presidential election of 1896

Chapter 21

• American expansion of the 1890s
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Cuban rebellion against Spain
• U.S. negotiations with Spain, 1897-1898
• Spanish-American War
• African Americans in the Spanish-American War
• annexation of the Philippines
• Philippine-American War
• Open Door policy
• Emilio Aguinaldo

Chapter 22

• Henry Ford
• Frederick W. Taylor
• workers' experience with the new industrialism
• Immigration, 1900-1914
• early twentieth century Mexican immigration
• American Federation of Labor
• Henry Ford and worker relations
• Muckrakers
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Industrial Workers of the World

Chapter 23

• General characteristics of  "progressivism”
• Sixteenth Amendment
• "New Nationalism"
• “New Freedom”
• Presidential election of 1912
• Wilson’s record on domestic policy
• Theodore Roosevelt’s record on race relations
• Theodore Roosevelt and the coal strike of 1902
• Eighteenth Amendment
• Nineteenth Amendment