2011+Midterm+Exam+Prep

The midterm exam will consist of multiple choice questions, a skill section, and an open response essay.
The **skill section** will test a skill we have worked on this year - something like I See / It Means, Marking up the text, reading a primary source and completing an APPARTS chart, or 2-column note-taking.

For the **open response** essay you will __choose one of two__ questions and be expected to write __at least 3 paragraphs__ answering the question in a clear, well-argued essay. You will be expected to have a clear, strong thesis statement, and to use solid topic sentences, relevant key terms and examples, and to add analysis of your evidence.

=Midterm Exam Review=

__Unit I - The 2nd Industrial Revolution__

 * 1) What is an industrial revolution?
 * 2) Railroads, oil, steel
 * 3) social Darwinism
 * 4) Capitalism
 * 5) Urbanization
 * 6) Entrepreneur
 * 7) Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
 * 8) Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt
 * 9) monopoly and trusts
 * 10) Union
 * 11) Chinese Exclusion Act
 * 12) Tenements
 * 13) Political Machines
 * 14) Ellis Island

__Unit II - The Progressive Era__

 * 1) Progressivism / Progressives / Progressive Era
 * 2) muckrakers
 * 3) Jacob Riis / How the Other Half Lives
 * 4) Ida Tarbell
 * 5) Lincoln Steffens
 * 6) Upton Sinclair / The Jungle
 * 7) Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act
 * 8) 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
 * 9) initiative, referendum, recall - election reforms
 * 10) prohibition
 * 11) Susan B Anthony
 * 12) suffrage / suffragists
 * 13) Theodore Roosevelt
 * 14) Square Deal
 * 15) trust-busting / Sherman Antitrust Act / Clayton Antitrust Act
 * 16) Federal Reserve Act

__Unit III - American Imperialism__

 * 1) What is imperialism?
 * 2) Imperialist
 * 3) Motivations for imperialism
 * 4) social Darwinism
 * 5) The Spanish-American War
 * 6) Causes of the war - Cuba, USS Maine
 * 7) Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
 * 8) William Randolph Hearst / yellow journalism
 * 9) de Lome Letter
 * 10) Theodore Roosevelt / Rough Riders
 * 11) Outcomes of the S-A War
 * 12) Debate over annexing the Philippines

__Unit IV - American in World War I__

 * 1) Background causes of WWI
 * 2) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
 * 3) trench warfare
 * 4) neutrality & isolationism
 * 5) Allied vs. Central Powers
 * 6) Reasons the U.S. joined the war
 * 7) German unrestricted sub warfare / the Lusitania
 * 8) the Zimmerman note/telegram
 * 9) the Home Front
 * 10) Selective Service Act
 * 11) Liberty Bonds
 * 12) National War Labor Board
 * 13) Propaganda / Committee on Public Information
 * 14) rationing
 * 15) Woodrow Wilson
 * 16) 14 points
 * 17) Treaty of Versailles
 * 18) League of Nations