Reconstruction,+The+West+and+Industrialism+Review+Sheet


 * Reconstruction, The West and Industrialism Exam Review Sheet **

The multiple choice questions will only cover Reconstruction and Industrialism (which is why there are only review topics for these units below).


 * Reconstruction **
 * 1) Differences between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction
 * 2) Reasons for the switch from Presidential to Congressional Reconstruction
 * 3) Black Codes
 * 4) Jim Crow law
 * 5) Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois
 * 6) Ida B. Wells
 * 7) Reconstruction Amendments – 13th, 14th, 15th – what they were and what they did
 * 8) Sharecropping
 * 9) //Birth of a Nation// – what was shown by the video clip we watched in class
 * 10) Questions from Ulysses S. Grant video
 * 11) Grant’s Presidential slogan – what it was and what it meant
 * 12) Grant’s plan for the Dominican Republic

There will be NO Multiple Choice questions covering The West on this test. Is it fair to refer to the American West (1870-1900) as a “Geography of Hope”?
 * The West: ESSAY QUESTION **


 * Industrialism **
 * 1) Bessemer Process, and time zones – how they aided the rise of industrialism
 * 2) How industrialists could be considered Captains of Industry
 * 3) Organizational techniques
 * 4) Economies of scale
 * 5) Gospel of Wealth
 * 1) How industrialists could be considered as Robber Barons
 * 2) “American Beauty Rose”
 * 1) Social Darwinism
 * 2) Laissez faire
 * 3) Results of industrialism for workers – rise of tenements
 * 4) Child labor (Lewis Hine)
 * 5) Reasons for the rise of labor unions
 * 6) Pullman Strike of 1894 – reasons it failed
 * 7) Scofield Mine Accident – how workers responded
 * 8) Coal Strike of 1900 – reasons it succeeded