AMERICAN HISTORY
WEEK OF JUNE 4TH - 7TH
FINAL EXAM WEEK
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US History Final Exam Review Sheet
Terms and Names
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Westward Expansion, Cowboys, Compromise of 1850, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Fort Sumter, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Habeas Corpus, Bull run, assembly line, Andrew Carnegie, Freedman Bureau, yellow journalism, Rough Riders, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, 19th Amendment, Platt Amendment, USS Maine, Spanish-American War, Muckrakers, Square Deal, “The Jungle”, Clayton Antitrust Act, Trench Warfare, Great Migration, Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points, Treaty of Versailles, Nativism, Scopes trial, Flappers, Harlem Renaissance, Stocks, Margin, Great Depression, Soviet Union (USSR), Lend-Lease program, Manhattan Project, Nazis, Iron Curtain, McCarthyism, NATO, Marshal Plan, GI Bill, Suburbs, American Dream, Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile Crisis, The Great Society, Economic Opportunity Act, Miranda vs. Arizona, Geneva Accord, domino Theory, Tet Offensive, Agent Orange, the Watergate scandal.
Possible essay topics
*Impact of 14 & 15 Amendments
*Factors behind rapid American Industrialization
*Effects of W.W.II on American women and minorities
*Importance of the Battle of Atlantic, Battle of Midway, and the Invasion of Normandy
*Opportunities, adjustments, and tensions on American society during W.W.II
*Great Society Laws and purposes
*Always refer to Gradebook (Pinnacle) for additional info, such as essential question topics, essay prompts, page numbers, assignment descriptions, and due dates for all assignments
Click on a specific assignment to see the due date
Click on "Narrative" to see page numbers and/or additional info
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