American History Semester 2 Study Guide

American History---Semester 2 Study Guide 14th Amendment Reconstruction Act of 1867 Chapter 11 15th Amendment Impeach Fort Sumter Tenure of Office Act Union Advantages Election of 1868 Confederate Advantages Physical, Economic, Social Conditions in the South Union Plan for Victory Scalawags Confederate Plan for Victory Carpetbaggers Bull Run New Freedoms for African Americans Stonewall Jackson Sharecropping George McClellan Tenant Farming Ulysses S Grant Banking Problems Shiloh KKK Robert E Lee Hate Groups Antietam Problems for Grant Great Britain Whiskey Ring Emancipation Proclamation Election of 1876 (What happened, how did that Copperheads end Reconstruction) Conscription Good and Bad things about Reconstruction Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight Draft Riots African American’s serving for the Union Chapter 13-14 Daily life of soldiers Clara Burton Great Plains Andersonville—prisons Conflict on the Great Plains Gettysburg Sitting Bull Vicksburg George Custer Gettysburg Address Assimilation William Sherman Dawes Act Total War Battle at Wounded Knee Results of total war Ghost Dance Election of 1864 Longhorns Appomattox Courthouse Cattle Industry…why popular Lincoln’s Assassination Long Drives John Wilkes Booth Daily Life for Cowboys Vaqueros Union Pacific RR (Omaha) Central Pacific RR (Sacramento) Chapter 12 Conditions for workers Homestead Act Reconstruction Soddy Lincoln’s Plan, Morrill Act Radical Republicans Why were farmers going into debt? Thaddeus Stevens Currency—gold and silver debate Wade Davis Bill Grange Pocket Veto Farmers Alliance Andrew Johnson Populism/Populist Party Johnson’s Plan (what it was, results, etc) Why did industry grow so fast in America? Congressional Plan Edwin L Drake Freedman’s Bureau Bessemer Process Civil Rights Act Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Graft RR Time Boss Tweed Scandal C F Dowd Patronage Interstate Commerce Act Andrew Carnegie Chapters 19-23 Vertical Integration Horizontal Integration Nationalism Social Darwinism Imperialism Merger Militarism John D Rockefeller Allies Standard Oil Company Central Powers Sherman Anti-trust Act Franz Ferdinand NLU/Knights of Labor Trench Warefare Craft Unions Zimmerman Note AFL Lusitania Socialism Shell Shock Marry Harris Jones John J Pershing

Chapter 15/History of Iowa Armistice— Great Migration Native Americans in Iowa Flu Epidemic Black Hawk War Treaty of Versailles (why was it important) Two types of transportation within Iowa? How did WWI effect Germany (lead to WWII) German Immigrants to Iowa Isolationism Scandinavian Immigrants to Iowa Communizm Italians Urban Sprawl How farming changed within Iowa? Quota System Prohibition Warren G Harding Dates (Iowa’s independence, capital moving, etc..) New ways of life Why Europeans moved to America? Prohibition Two different waves of immigrants Speakeasies Places were immigrants came from Bootlegging Ellis Island/Angel Island Al Capone Ethnic Communities Flapper Nativism Charles Lindbergh Melting Pot F Scott Fitzgerald Chinese Exclusion Act Harlem Renaissance Gentleman’s Agreement Louis Armstrong Urbanization Roaring Twenties Why did immigrants want to live in cities? Media Improvements (impact on daily life) Americanization Movement Credit Why did a lot of people move to the cities? Black Tuesday Housing Problems Great Depression Tenements Shantytowns Transportation Problems Dust Bowl Mass Transit Herbert Hoover Problems (water, sanitation, crime) Stock Market Crash Fire (Chicago and San Francisco) How did the Great Depression effect families, men? Settlement Houses Franklin Roosevelt Jane Adams AAA Political Machine CCC Political Bosses Eleanor Roosevelt Grant Wood New Deal Fireside Chats Modern US History/Iowa Was the New Deal successful? Harry Truman Chapter 24 and 25 Dwight Eisenhower John F Kennedy Adolph Hitler Richard Nixon Nazism Jackie Robinson Benito Mussolini Martin Luther King Jr Fascism Rosa Parks What was Japan’s plan during the 1930s? Elvis What was Hitler’s plan in Europe? (How did he Fidel Castro invade all of Europe) Lyndon Johnson Winston Churchill Malcolm X Appeasement Beatles Blitzkrieg Gerald Ford Who were the Allied Powers? Korean War Who were the Axis Powers? Vietnam War The Holocaust Ho Chi Minh Genocide Moon Landing Concentration Camps Woodstock/Jimmy Hendricks Ghettos Jimmy Carter How/why did the United States get involved with Ronald Reagan WWII (Europe) George H Bush Hedeki Tojo George W Bush Pearl Harbor Bill Clinton Battle of the Atlantic Barack Obama Battle of Stalingrad Ayatollah/Iran Hostages Dwight Eisenhower Saddam Hussein/Persian Gulf War D-Day Osama Bin Laden What happened during the Invasion of France? Magic Johnson/AIDS Battle of the Bulge Rodney King/LA RIOTS VE Day Challenger Franklin Roosevelt Gorbachev/End of Cold War Harry S Truman Berlin Wall How did the Allies win the war in Europe? Katrina Douglas MacArthur 9/11 Battle of Midway Columbine Kamikaze Steve Jobs/Bill Gates Battle of Iwo Jima Terry Brandstad Battle for Okinawa Nile Kinnick Hiroshima/Nagasaki Iowa State Date Yalta Conference Iowa Capitals Should we have used nuclear weapons to the fighting against Japan? What happens to our nations economy? GI Bill of Rights Internment How were Japanese Americans treated during WWII?