Intermediate American History, Volume 1

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1 Intermediate American History, Volume 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE GLOBAL HERITAGE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (Prior to 1500) TOPIC A: History and the Social Sciences: The Study of People... 1 TOPIC B: Geography and Settlement PART 1: Geographic Terminology... 3 PART 2: United States Geography... 7 PART 3: World Geography and America s Neighbors PART 4: Geographic Factors and Their Influence on Early Settlement and Culture TOPIC C: Native American Indian Civilizations PART 1: Central and South American [Incan, Mayan, Aztec] PART 2: Eastern Woodland Tribes PART 3: Peoples of the Plains PART 4: Pacific Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Great Basin/Plateau Tribes PART 5: Southwestern Native Civilizations PART 6: Southeastern Native Civilizations PART 7: Map-based Geographic Regions of Native Civilizations PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER TWO EUROPEAN EXPLORATION & COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS TOPIC A: European Exploration and Settlement PART 1: Factors Facilitating Exploration and Settlement PART 2: The Spanish Empire and Its Decline TOPIC B: Geographic, Political, and Economic Factors of Colonial Settlement PART 1: 13 English Colonies 6 New England Middle Colonies Southern Colonies General Questions PART 2: French Colonies PART 3: Spanish and Portuguese Colonies PART 4: Dutch and Swedish Colonies PART 5: Map-based Geographical Exploration and Settlement TOPIC C: Life in New England, Middle, and Southern English Colonies PART 1: Centers of Social, Economic, and Political Life and European Patterns of Development 6 Comparison of Life in Colonies Social Structure and Inequity Role of Religions Survival Political Progress PART 2: Impact of Geographic and Social Conditions on Life PART 3: Economics and Triangular Trade PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Timeline Questions PART 4: Constructed Response Questions... 90

2 PART 5: Document-Based Questions PART 6: Essay Questions PART 7: True/False Questions PART 8: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER THREE CREATION OF A NATION TOPIC A: Background Causes of the American Revolution PART 1: French and Indian War and Pontiac s Rebellion PART 2: Economic Factors PART 3: Political Factors, American Experiences, and European Background TOPIC B: Shift From Protest to Separation PART 1: Repressive British Policies and Acts PART 2: Protest and Expression of Public Opinion PART 3: Viewpoints Concerning Relationship to Great Britain TOPIC C: Early Attempts to Govern the Newly-Independent States TOPIC D: Military and Political Aspects of the American Revolution PART 1: Strategies and Influential Factors in the Outcome of the War PART 2: Principal Military Engagements PART 3: Military Leaders PART 4: Treaty of Paris TOPIC E: Economic, Political, and Social Changes Caused by the American Revolution TOPIC F: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Timeline Questions PART 4: Constructed Response Questions PART 5: Document-Based Questions PART 6: Essay Questions PART 7: True/False Questions PART 8: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER FOUR EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT (1776-PRESENT) TOPIC A: Articles of Confederation and the Critical Period PART 1: Need for and Development of a Formal Plan of Government PART 2: Confederation Government and Its Weaknesses PART 3: Achievements and Contributions of the Articles of Confederation TOPIC B: Writing, Structure, and Adoption of the United States Constitution PART 1: Annapolis Convention (1786) and Constitutional Convention (1787) PART 2: Constitutional Compromises PART 3: Constitution and Structure of New Government Preamble Executive Branch Legislative Branch Judicial Branch PART 4: Ratification Process PART 5: Basic Legal and Political Principles of the Constitution 6 Limited Government and Federalism Checks and Balances Democracy and the Power of the People PART 6: Bill of Rights Amendment 1 (Freedom of Expression/Press/Religion/Assembly) Amendment 2 (Right to Bear Arms) Amendment 4 (Right to Privacy, Unreasonable Search and Seizure) Amendment 5 (Rights of Accused) Amendment 6 (Due Process of Law) Amendment 8 (Cruel and Unusual Punishment) Amendment 9 (Constitutional Flexibility) Amendment 10 (State s Rights)

3 PART 7: Provisions for Change in the Constitution PART 8: Evolution of an Unwritten Constitution TOPIC C: Modern Civics and Citizenship PART 1: General Questions PART 2: Responsibilities of the Citizen PART 3: Relationship of the Citizen to Society PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER FIVE LIFE IN THE NEW NATION TOPIC A: Early Years of a New Government PART 1: Precedents and Presidency of George Washington PART 2: Establishing Stability PART 3: Expanding the Nation s Boundaries ( ) PART 4: Presidency of Thomas Jefferson PART 5: Challenges to Stability ( ) 6 Political Parties French Revolution and United States Reaction Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions War of Hartford Convention PART 6: Era of Good Feelings PART 7: Domestic Affairs After PART 8: Foreign Policy After TOPIC B: Jacksonian Era PART 1: Age of the Common Man PART 2: Jackson s Native American Indian Policy PART 3: Sectional Differences PART 4: Jackson s War on the Bank and Its Impact PART 5: Whig and Democratic Parties TOPIC C: Agriculture, Development, and Early Industrialization PART 1: Portrait of the United States in the Early 1800 s PART 2: Life in Agrarian America PART 3: Early Industrialization, Technological Changes, and Their Impact TOPIC D: Social Change, Reform, and Religious Revival in an Industrializing Society (Prior to 1860) PART 1: Education PART 2: Religion, Charity, and Reform PART 3: Women s Rights and Suffrage PART 4: Emergence of American Culture TOPIC E: Manifest Destiny and Expansion to the Pacific PART 1: Concepts of Manifest Destiny PART 2: Mountain Men and the Early Frontier PART 3: Florida (1819) PART 4: Texas ( ) PART 5: Oregon Country (1846) PART 6: Mormon Utah ( ) PART 7: California Gold Rush (1848) PART 8: Mexican Cession (1850) PART 9: Gadsden Purchase (1853) TOPIC F: Sectionalism: Portrait of the United States in

4 TOPIC G: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Timeline Questions PART 4: Constructed Response Questions PART 5: Document-Based Questions PART 6: Essay Questions PART 7: True/False Questions PART 8: "Who Am I?" Questions PART 9: Geography and Map Questions CHAPTER SIX AMERICAN CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION TOPIC A: Underlying Causes of the Civil War PART 1: Territorial Expansion and Slavery ( ) PART 2: Arguments For and Against Slavery PART 3: Failure of Political Compromise ( ) PART 4: Anti-Slavery Movements TOPIC B: Onset and Events of the Civil War PART 1: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln PART 2: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Southern Position PART 3: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Northern Position PART 4: Military and Political Dimensions of the War TOPIC C: Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction PART 1: Emancipation Proclamation and Abolition of Slavery (13 th Amendment) PART 2: Political Power and Decision Making PART 3: Impact of the American Civil War PART 4: Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, and Black Codes PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Timeline Questions PART 4: Constructed Response Questions PART 5: Document-Based Questions PART 6: Essay Questions PART 7: True/False Questions PART 8: "Who Am I?" Questions APPENDIX DETAILED CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 1 CHAPTER 1: Global Heritage of the American People (Prior to 1500) CHAPTER 2: European Exploration & Colonization of the Americas CHAPTER 3: Creation of a Nation CHAPTER 4: Experiments in Government (1776-Present) CHAPTER 5: Life in the New Nation CHAPTER 6: American Civil War & Reconstruction INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 7: Movement Towards an Industrial Society CHAPTER 8: United States Foreign Policy ( ) CHAPTER 9: Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, & World War II ( ) CHAPTER 10: United States Role as a Superpower in the Cold War ( ) CHAPTER 11: Modern History (1975-Present) HINT: Many concepts in history cross over multiple time spans and may be located in different chapters of the database. To aid in finding appropriate questions, refer to the detailed curriculum outline found in the APPENDIX of this manual. Also, use the EXAMgen program's "Find" function to locate other related material in all chapters by searching for a keyword.

5 Intermediate American History, Volume 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER SEVEN MOVEMENT TOWARDS AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY TOPIC A:Maturing of an Industrial Society PART 1: Government Policies Relating to Industry... 1 PART 2: Growth of United States Industry... 1 PART 3: Growth of the Corporation as a Form of Business... 4 PART 4: Effects of Industrialization on Society... 5 PART 5: Response of Labor to Industrialization... 7 PART 6: Response of the Farmer to Industrialization TOPIC B: Development of the Frontier (American West) PART 1: General Questions PART 2: Native American Plains Indians PART 3: Homestead Act PART 4: Influence of the Railroad System PART 5: Cattle Ranching Industry TOPIC C: Periods of Immigration PART 1: Immigration Experience ( Old and New ) PART 2: Immigrant Discrimination and Prejudice PART 3: Pluralism, Acculturation, and Assimilation TOPIC D: Changes in the Social Structure Alter the American Scene PART 1: America Becomes an Increasingly Mobile Society PART 2: America Becomes a Consumer Society PART 3: New Leisure Activity and American Culture TOPIC E: Progressive Movement ( ) PART 1: Social, Political, and Economic Ills Exposed PART 2: Political Reform PART 3: Economic Reform 6 Government Response to Industrial Development and Abuses Theodore Roosevelt s Conservationism PART 4: Education Reform PART 5: African-American Civil Rights TOPIC F: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER EIGHT UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY ( ) TOPIC A: Overseas Expansion, Imperialism, and Spanish American War PART 1: Overseas Expansion PART 2: Causes of Imperialist Sentiment PART 3: Immediate Causes of the Spanish-American War PART 4: Spanish-American War (1898) and Its Impact on Foreign Policy PART 5: United States Foreign Policies in Latin America TOPIC B: World War I PART 1: United States Involvement in World Affairs ( ) PART 2: Causes of World War I PART 3: Movement from Neutrality to Involvement in World War I PART 4: Effects of World War I PART 5: Bolshevik Revolution (1917) PART 6: Treaty of Versailles, Fourteen Points, and League of Nations... 95

6 TOPIC C: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER NINE ROARING TWENTIES, GREAT DEPRESSION, & WORLD WAR II ( ) TOPIC A: Roaring Twenties PART 1: Post-World War I Political Developments PART 2: United States Isolationism in World Political Affairs PART 3: Growth of a Consumer Economy and the Rise of the Middle Class PART 4: Changes in the American Workforce PART 5: Unprecedented Prosperity Hides Serious Weaknesses PART 6: Immigration and African-American Migration PART 7: Leisure Activities and Popular Culture PART 8: Prohibition and Its Repeal (18th and 21st Amendments) PART 9: Crash of the Stock Market TOPIC B: Great Depression PART 1: Start of the Great Depression PART 2: Responses to Deepening Economic Woes ( ) PART 3: FDR s New Deal PART 4: Cultural Environment During the Great Depression PART 5: Foreign Affairs During the Great Depression TOPIC C: World War II PART 1: Events Leading to World War II PART 2: Prewar Alliances PART 3: Axis Aggression PART 4: Policy Shift from Neutrality to Active Aid PART 5: New Military Aspects of the War PART 6: War on the Home Front PART 7: End of the War PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER TEN UNITED STATES ROLE AS A SUPERPOWER IN THE COLD WAR ( ) TOPIC A: Economic Patterns and Trends PART 1: General Questions PART 2: Consumerism PART 3: Government Spending PART 4: Changes in the American Workforce TOPIC B: Domestic Social Movements PART 1: African-American Civil Rights PART 2: Hispanic, Mexican, and Latin-Americans PART 3: Native Americans PART 4: Feminist Movement TOPIC C: Demographic Patterns and Trends PART 1: Urban and Suburban Development PART 2: Shifts in the American Population PART 3: Population Pressures and Environmental Issues

7 TOPIC D: Domestic Affairs of Post-World War II Presidents PART 1: Harry S. Truman ( ) PART 2: Dwight D. Eisenhower ( ) PART 3: John F. Kennedy ( ) PART 4: Lyndon B. Johnson ( ) PART 5: Richard Nixon ( ) TOPIC E: United Nations and Post-World War II Foreign Policy PART 1: United States and the United Nations PART 2: Postwar Foreign Goals TOPIC F: The Cold War PART 1: General Questions PART 2: Iron Curtain PART 3: Truman Doctrine (1947) and Containment PART 4: Marshall Plan (1947) PART 5: Berlin Airlift and Blockade (1948) PART 6: NATO (1949) PART 7: Atomic Arms Race and Missile Sales PART 8: Cold War in Asia ( ) PART 9: Warsaw Pact (1955) PART 10: Suez Crisis (1956) PART 11: Polish Riots and Hungarian Revolution (1956) PART 12: Bay of Pigs (1961) PART 13: Alliance for Progress (1961) PART 14: JFK s Peace Corp (1961) PART 15: Berlin Wall (1961) PART 16: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) and Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) PART 17: Détente TOPIC G: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions CHAPTER ELEVEN MODERN HISTORY (1975-PRESENT) TOPIC A: Economic Patterns and Trends PART 1: General Questions PART 2: United States Economy 6 Economic Systems Gross National Product and Gross Domestic Product Balance of Trade and Trade Deficit Trade Tariffs and International Competition Supply and Demand Interest Rates and the Federal Reserve System Government Spending, Budget Deficit, and National Debt Taxation Government Regulation of Business PART 3: Changes in the American Workforce TOPIC B: Social Patterns and Trends PART 1: Marketing and Media PART 2: Changing Family Patterns PART 3: Impact of a Youth-Centered Culture PART 4: Minority Civil Rights Movements PART 5: Continuing Feminist Movement TOPIC C: Demographic Patterns and Trends PART 1: Rise of a Middle Class

8 PART 2: Shifts in the American Population PART 3: Modern Immigration TOPIC D: Domestic Affairs of Modern Presidents (1975-Present) PART 1: Gerald Ford ( ) PART 2: Jimmy Carter ( ) PART 3: Ronald Reagan ( ) PART 4: George Bush ( ) PART 5: Bill Clinton ( ) PART 6: George W. Bush (2001-Present) TOPIC E: United States in World Affairs (After the Collapse of Communism) PART 1: Areas of Conflict and Concern 6 Palestine and Israel (Arab-Israeli Wars, ) Iranian Hostage Crisis Africa and Apartheid (1980 s) Central America and South America China Soviet Union Persian Gulf War Bosnia Somalia Crises Related to the Middle East Weapons, Threats of War, and Terrorism PART 2: Spread of Democracy PART 3: World Interdependence and Trade TOPIC F: America Moves Into the 21st Century PART 1: Education PART 2: Disease PART 3: Technological Developments PART 4: Crime and Law Enforcement PART 5: Emergence of an Environmental Movement TOPIC G: Question Styles PART 1: Matching Questions PART 2: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions PART 3: Constructed Response Questions PART 4: Document-Based Questions PART 5: Essay Questions PART 6: True/False Questions PART 7: "Who Am I?" Questions APPENDIX DETAILED CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 1 CHAPTER 1: Global Heritage of the American People (Prior to 1500) CHAPTER 2: European Exploration & Colonization of the Americas CHAPTER 3: Creation of a Nation CHAPTER 4: Experiments in Government (1776-Present) CHAPTER 5: Life in the New Nation CHAPTER 6: American Civil War & Reconstruction INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 7: Movement Towards an Industrial Society CHAPTER 8: United States Foreign Policy ( ) CHAPTER 9: Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, & World War II ( ) CHAPTER 10: United States Role as a Superpower in the Cold War ( ) CHAPTER 11: Modern History (1975-Present) HINT: Many concepts in history cross over multiple time spans and may be located in different chapters of the database. To aid in finding appropriate questions, refer to the detailed curriculum outline found in the APPENDIX of this manual. Also, use the EXAMgen program's "Find" function to locate other related material in all chapters by searching for a keyword.