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Race and Social Justice in U.S. History
 * Semester I Final Review Sheet Updated 12/15/15 **

__ Unit One – Self Government in Colonial America and The Constitution  __ 1. Founding fathers and their beliefs concerning slavery 2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 3. Supremacy Clause of the Constitution 4. The Great Compromise 5. Significance of Paul Revere’s woodcut of the Boston Massacre

__Unit Two – Expansion and The American Civil War__
1. Significance of the cotton gin 2. abolitionists 3. Manifest Destiny 4. John Brown 5. Underground Railraod 6. Dred Scott Decision – what it said 7. Fugitive Slave law 8. 54th Massachusetts regiment in the American Civil War 9. Sea Island Experiments

__ Unit Three – Reconstruction, The West and Industrialism  __

1. “Let Us Have Peace” – Grant’s slogan – what it meant 2. Jim Crow laws and Black Codes 3. //The Birth of A Nation// 4. 14th Amendment – what it said 5. Similarities and differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois 6. Sharecropping 7. Ida B. Wells 8. Frank Cushing and the “Friends of the Indian” 9. Rockefeller’s “American Beauty Rose” 10. Gospel of Wealth 11. Theory of Social Darwinism 12. John Mitchell and the Coal Strike of 1900 13. Why the Pullman Strike failed 14. Tenement housing 15. Lewis Hine and Child Labor

__ Unit Four – Immigration, Culture and American Imperialism and Immigration  __ 1. Ellis Island experience vs. Angel Island experience 2. Tenement houses 3. Settlement Houses 4. Ethnic communities 5. Legal harassment of Chinese and the Chinese Exclusion Act 6. Social Gospel 7. Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal 8. Trolley and subways – why they were significant 9. How immigrants got the United States – steamships and steerage 10. Political machines – how it benefited immigrants 11. Public Education – how it benefited immigrants

__ Culture in the late 19th Century  __ 1 “Gibson Girls” 2. Legislating morality – Carrie Nation and //Sapho// 3. Cult of Domesticity 4. Ragtime music 5. Entertainment in Victorian America – the theater, Coney Island, etc. 6. Francis Benjamin Johnston 7. The fight for women’s suffrage – arguments for and against 8. Voting for women - Susan B. Anthony. How some women incorporated cult of domesticity into their demands. 9. Minstrel Shows 10. The Centennial Mirror

__ Imperialism  __
 * 1)  Reasons for U.S. interest in gaining new territories
 * 2)  Yellow Journalism – what it was and how it helped lead to the Spanish-American War
 * 3)  Causes of the Spanish-American War / What land was gained from this war?
 * 4)  Filipino War – lessons learned (or not learned) by the U.S.
 * 5)  How the U.S. acquired the Panama Canal
 * 6)  The role of Philippe Bunau-Varilla and the U.S. government in the Panamanian Revolution
 * 7)  The Panama Canal – how long is it, how does it work, etc.
 * 8)  Importance of the voyage of the U.S.S. Oregon
 * 9)  Anti-Imperialism movement / Carl Shurz’s argument
 * 10)  White Man’s Burden – Pear Soap advertisement
 * 11)  Acquisition of Midway and Alaska – why did the U.S. get these areas?
 * 12)  Roosevelt Corollary and Dollar Diplomacy
 * 13)  Open Door Policy

__ Short Answer Prompts __
// For all questions consider the time period 1870-1910. //

You will be given three documents (pictures or text). Each document will have one question.