420 Study Guide
At least one of the long essay questions will appear on the exam. Below them are key terms. You should be able to identify basic journalistic facts about each term (who, what, when, where) and explain their historical significance: how does this item help to explain a larger historical trend, idea, event? Or what part does it play in an important historical narrative? Most of the terms should be useful in writing about the longer essay prompts.
Study questions for the longer essay
Did the Wilson administration wage a progressive war in 1917-18? If so, what does your answer tell us about the nature of progressivism?
To what extent did the progressive presidents live up to the ideals of progressivism?
What motivated American involvement in foreign affairs up to the start of WWI?
Did the farmers’ and workers’ movements of the Gilded Age (labor unions, Populism) fail more because of shortcomings of the movements (factors internal to the movements themselves) or because of the ability of the existing order to resist change (factors external to the movements).
Explain the pro-business, conservative ideology of the defenders of the Gilded Age economic order. On balance which cousin was right about the benefits of the system supported by that ideology? (If you forget about the cousins, see units 8 & 11)
8-10: Rise of Industry
Taylorism
Efficiency
Productivity
Mechanization
Division of labor
Economies of scale
Mergers
Trusts
Managers
Limited liability
Stock
Stock exchange
Dividends
Capital
Profits
Capitalists
Robber Barons
Tariff
Invention factories
Wage labor
Contract freedom
Eight-hour day
Strikes
Competition
Consolidation
Real wages
Permanent working class (proletariat)
11: Industrial Labor
Great RR strike of 77
General Strike
8-hour day
Child labor
Mechanization
Knights of Labor
Industrial Unions
Pinkertons
Homestead
AF of L
Craft Union
Pullman strike
Eugene Debs
Injunction
Meatpacking Industry
Immigration
Urbanization
Melting Pot
Tammany Hall
Lochner v. NY
Police powers
Due process
Liberty of Contract
Judicial Review
12: The West: press the arrow to see the key terms for this unit.
Gold and Silver rushes, 29
Bison herds, 29
Homestead Act, 31
Little Bighorn, 37
Transcontinental RR, 40
Dawes General Allotment Act, 44
Ghost Dance, 45
Wounded Knee, 47
Buffalo Bill, 49
Frontier thesis, 51
Frederick Jackson Turner, 51
100th Meridian
Rain Follows the plow
John Wesley Powell
Aquifers
13. Politics of the Gilded Age
Farmer's Alliance
Populist Party
Subtreasury system
Monetary policy
Hard money
Free sliver
Bimetallism
Inflation
Deflation
Tom Watson
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Fusion
William Jennings Bryan
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Bourbons
Jim Crow
Lynching
Disfranchisement
Poll tax
Literacy tests
Ida B. Wells
Lost Cause
14. America in the world
Asian trade; Spheres of influence
Open door
Boxer Rebellion
Missionaries
Guano Island Act
Big five sugar
Mexican Revolution
Cuba
The Maine
Yellow journals
Splendid little war
Albert Beveridge
Battle of Manilla Bay
Phillipine Commissions
Emilio Aguinaldo
American Anti-Imperialist League
Theodore Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Pearl Harbor
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Great White Fleet
Big stick diplomacy
Panama
Roosevelt Corollary
Guantanamo Bay
Dollar diplomacy
[Portsmouth Peace Treaty]
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
15-19. The Progressive Era
Professionalism
Social Engineering
Muckrakers
City Manager
Robert La Follette
Referendum
Scientific Management
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Square Deal
Anthracite Coal Strike
Bull Moose Party
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Federal Reserve Act
Gabriel Kolko
Hyphenated Americans
Espionage Act
Neutrality
Lusitania
U-Boats
Zimmerman telegram
CPI
Liberty Loan
Armistice
14 Points
Peace Without Victory
League of Nations
Article 10