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American Century Exam Review Guide

The final exam for American Century will be on Tuesday May 31st at 8 AM in the Science Forum. It will be cumulative from second semester only. Students have been provided with three essay questions to choose from to prepare for in advance, but cannot bring materials into the exam. Ms. Whitaker will hold US history specific office hours on Monday May 30th from 7:30-8:00 PM in her classroom for students to ask questions. The review guide provides an overview of topics covered this semester and directs students to review their notes, quizzes, tests, and vocabulary sheets to prepare.

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American Century Exam Review Guide

The final exam for American Century will be on Tuesday May 31st at 8 AM in the Science Forum. It will be cumulative from second semester only. Students have been provided with three essay questions to choose from to prepare for in advance, but cannot bring materials into the exam. Ms. Whitaker will hold US history specific office hours on Monday May 30th from 7:30-8:00 PM in her classroom for students to ask questions. The review guide provides an overview of topics covered this semester and directs students to review their notes, quizzes, tests, and vocabulary sheets to prepare.

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Name: _________________________ American Century

Date: __________________________ Ms. Whitaker

American Century Spring Exam Review Guide

The final exam will follow a similar format to that of your other assessments and will be cumulative from
second semester only. You have already been provided with a choice of three essay questions. You may
prepare one but cannot bring anything into the exam. Your exam will be given the morning of Tuesday
May 31st at 8 AM in the Science Forum. I will provide US history specific office hours 7:30-8:00 PM
Monday May 30th in my classroom—you must come prepared with questions. If you have any other
concerns please feel free to email, call or set up a meeting. Good luck studying!

Civil War & Reconstruction

Review your cloze notes (Civil War=Days I-VIII, Reconstruction Days I & II), vocabulary sheets, quizzes
and test. Everything you need to know can be found among these items!

Indian Wars Gilded Age

Indian Removal Act Vertical Integration


Bureau of Indian Affairs (& Corruption) Horizontal Combination
Quality of Life on a Reservation Swift, United Fruit Co.
Fate of Bison Population Rockefeller, Carnegie
Homestead Act of 1862 Gospel of Wealth
Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 Social Darwinism
The Great Sioux War of 1865-67 Knights of Labor 1869
Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 AFL 1886
Custer’s Last Stand 1876 Tenements
Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 Gilded Age
Conspicuous Consumption

Spanish-American War Progressive Era

Definition of Depression, stats Progressivism


“American Lake” Muckraking
Imperialism, Annex, Sovereignty, Protectorate Riis, McClure, Wells
Attempted Annexation of Canada Sinclair & The Jungle
Good Neighbor Policy (Bilateral) Jane Addams & Hull House
U.S. Desire for Cuba Settlement Houses
Spanish-American War in Cuba WCTU & Temperance
Jose Marti Prohibition, 18th Amendment
General Valeriano Weyler Reform of Prostitution
Policy of Reconcentrado National Board of Censorship
Cuba Libre Movement Standardization of Education
USS Maine Controversy Immigration Trends
Theodore Roosevelt & The Rough Riders Sanger & Birth Control
Platt Amendment (Guantanamo) Washington & DuBois
White Man’s Burden NAACP
Spanish-American War in Philippines Roosevelt & Trustbusting
Emilio Aguinaldo Sherman Antitrust & Hepburn Acts
Pure Food and Drug Act
Birth of Environmentalism, Muir
Election of 1912
Wilson’s Presidency
World War I

Review your cloze notes packet and open notes quiz. Be able to create a chart of the alliances.

Roaring Twenties The Great Depression

Prohibition Wall Street Crash of 1929


Speakeasy Black Tuesday Oct. 29th
Flappers Unemployment statistics
The Charleston Election of 1932: FDR
18th & 21st Amendments Dustbowl
Suffrage, 19th Amendment The Hundred Days
National Woman Suffrage Association The New Deal
League of Women Voters

World War II

Review your cloze notes packet (including the Holocaust), timelines and notes on the following:

Totalitarian Role of Women Potsdam Conference


Authoritarian Attitude Re: Italian/German-Americans Manhattan Project
Fascism Japanese Issei/Nisei Truman & Atomic Bombs
Pearl Harbor & FDR Yalta Conference Outcomes of WWII

The Cold War

Review your cloze notes packet and notes on the following:

StalinKhrushchev Berlin Crisis 1961


Korean War 1950-1953 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Bay of Pigs 1961 Space Race 1960s

Civil Rights Movement

Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954


Emmett Till, 1955
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56
Desegregating Little Rock, 1957
March on Washington, 1963
Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination, 1968

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