Unit 1 - Colonial America
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Discussion Questions
1. Describe the Americas before colonization.
2. What was “three-sister” farming? Why was it important?
3. Describe the Native-American population in North America. What were the roles of men and women?
4. Who were the indirect discoverers of North America? Why?
5. Describe the developments in Portugal and Spain that made exploration possible for those two nations.
6. What made exploration possible?
7. What exchanges occurred between the New World and the Old World?
8. What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? What were the effects of the treaty?
9. Describe the conquest of Mexico.
10. What successes did the Spanish have in North America?
11. Describe Pope’s Rebellion.
12. What is the Black Legend?
Chapter 2: The Planting of English American Discussion Questions
1. What is the significance of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh?
2. What made it possible for England to colonize North America?
3. What was England like on the eve of colonization?
4. Describe Jamestown.
5. What role did Lord De La Warr play in Virginia?
6. Describe the First and Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars? Why were the Powhatan people defeated?
7. How did Native-American life change with colonization?
8. Describe Virginia.
9. What was the House of Burgesses?
10. Describe Maryland.
11. What was the Act of Toleration?
12. What impact did the West Indies have on the North American colonies?
13. What was the Barbados Slave Code?
14. Describe the Carolinas.
15. Describe North Carolina.
16. Describe Georgia.
17. What characterized the southern colonies?
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies Discussion Questions
1. Who were the Puritans?
2. Describe the Plymouth Colony.
3. Describe the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
4. Who were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
5. Describe Rhode Island.
6. Describe Connecticut.
7. What was King Phillips War?
8. What was the New England Confederation?
9. What was the Dominion of New England?
10. What role did the Dutch play in North America?
11. Describe New York colony.
12. Describe Pennsylvania colony.
13. What are the characteristics of the Northern Colonies? (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rode Island)
14. What are the characteristics of the Middle Colonies? (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware)
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century Discussion Questions
1.Why was life in the Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland) unhealthy?
2.What was the tobacco economy like?
3.What were the causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion?
4.What was colonial slavery like?
5.Describe the lives of slaves. How did they keep their culture alive?
6.Describe the structure of Southern society?
7.What was the New England family like?
8.What was life like in New England towns?
9.What is the Half-Way Covenant?
10.What were the causes and effects of the Salem Witch Trials?
11.What was the New England way of life?
12.What generalizations can be made about the colonists in the 17th Century?
Unit 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution Discussion Questions
1.Describe the population in the colonies on the eve of revolution.
2.What various ethnic groups were present in the colonies on the eve of revolution?
3.What was the social structure of colonial America?
4.What were the most common professions in the colonies?
5.Describe the typical work in the colonies.
6.How good was horsepower and sail power in the colonies?
7.What were the two dominant churches in the colonies?
8.What was the Great Awakening?
9.Describe schools and colleges in the colonies.
10.Describe the press in the colonies.
11.What were politics like in the colonies?
12.Describe the colonies on the eve of revolution.
Unit 2 - The American Revolution
Chapter 6: The Dual for North America - Discussion Questions
1.Describe New France.
2.What did the French do in New France?
3.Why was the Ohio Valley important to the French?
4.What role did Washington play in the Ohio Valley?
5.What was the Albany Congress?
6.Who was General Braddock?
7.What was the British strategy in the French and Indian War?
8.What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
9.What affects did the French and Indian War have on the colonists?
10. How were the colonists not united during the French and Indian War?
11.What is the significance of Chief Pontiac?
12.What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Chapter 7: Road to Revolution - Discussion Questions
1.What is Republicanism and who were the Radical Whigs?
2.Define Mercantilism.
3.What were the Navigation Laws of 1650?
4.What were the benefits and drawbacks of Mercantilism for the colonists?
5.What was the Stamp Act?
6.Why were the British forced to repeal the Stamp Act?
7.What was the Townshend Act?
8.Define the Committees of Correspondence.
9.What was the Boston Tea Party?
10.What were the Intolerable Acts?
11.What were the accomplishments of the First Continental Congress?
12.What were the strengths and weaknesses of the British?
13.What were the strengths and weaknesses of the colonists?
14.Who actually fought in the American Revolution?
Chapter 8: American Succedes from the Empire - Discussion Questions
1.What did the Second Continental Congress accomplish?
2. Describe Washington’s strengths and weaknesses.
3.Describe the Battle of Bunker Hill.
4.Describe the invasion of Canada.
5.What was the significance of Common Sense?
6.What grievances are included it the Declaration of Independence?
7.Who were the patriots and loyalists?
8. What was the loyalists exodus?
9.Describe the Battle of Trenton and Princeton.
10.What happened at Valley Forge?
11.Describe the Battle of Saratoga.
12. How did France help in the American Revolution?
13.Describe the fighting in the South.
14.What role did Native-Americans play in the American Revolution?
15.What was the role of the Navy during the American Revolution?
16.Describe the Battle of Yorktown.
17.What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Chapter 9 - The Confederation and Constitution Discussion Questions
1.How was equality pursued and ignored at the end of the American Revolution?
2.Describe the state constitutions.
3.What was the state of the economy at the end of the American Revolution?
4.What were the problems with the Articles of Confederation?
5.What were the success of the A of C?
6.What is the Land Ordinance?
7.What is the Northwest Ordinance?
8.Describe Americas relationship with the British at the end of the American Revolution.
9.Describe Americas relationship with the Spanish and French at the end of the American Revolution.
10.What were the causes and effects of Shays’ Rebellion?
11.Describe the people who meet in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution. What were their goals?
12.What powers was the President given?
13.What was the Great Compromise?
14.What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
15.Describe the Federalists.
16.Describe the Antifederalists.
17.Why was the Constitution a conservative triumph?
Chapter 10: Launching a New Ship of State - Discussion Questions
1.Describe the Washington administration.
2.Describe the Bill of Rights.
3.What was Hamilton’s Financial Plan?
4.Describe the external and internal taxes under Hamilton.
5.Why did Hamilton and Jefferson battle over the Bank of the United States (BUS)?
6.What were the causes and effects of the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)?
7.What two political parties emerged? Why?
8.What reaction did Americans have to the French Revolution?
9.What was Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation?
10.What was the Treaty of Greenville?
11.What was Jay’s Treaty?
12.Describe the Adams’ Presidency.
13.What was the XYZ Affair? What was the Convention of 1800?
14.What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
15.What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
16.Compare the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Discussion Questions
1. Describe the Americas before colonization.
2. What was “three-sister” farming? Why was it important?
3. Describe the Native-American population in North America. What were the roles of men and women?
4. Who were the indirect discoverers of North America? Why?
5. Describe the developments in Portugal and Spain that made exploration possible for those two nations.
6. What made exploration possible?
7. What exchanges occurred between the New World and the Old World?
8. What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? What were the effects of the treaty?
9. Describe the conquest of Mexico.
10. What successes did the Spanish have in North America?
11. Describe Pope’s Rebellion.
12. What is the Black Legend?
Chapter 2: The Planting of English American Discussion Questions
1. What is the significance of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh?
2. What made it possible for England to colonize North America?
3. What was England like on the eve of colonization?
4. Describe Jamestown.
5. What role did Lord De La Warr play in Virginia?
6. Describe the First and Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars? Why were the Powhatan people defeated?
7. How did Native-American life change with colonization?
8. Describe Virginia.
9. What was the House of Burgesses?
10. Describe Maryland.
11. What was the Act of Toleration?
12. What impact did the West Indies have on the North American colonies?
13. What was the Barbados Slave Code?
14. Describe the Carolinas.
15. Describe North Carolina.
16. Describe Georgia.
17. What characterized the southern colonies?
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies Discussion Questions
1. Who were the Puritans?
2. Describe the Plymouth Colony.
3. Describe the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
4. Who were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
5. Describe Rhode Island.
6. Describe Connecticut.
7. What was King Phillips War?
8. What was the New England Confederation?
9. What was the Dominion of New England?
10. What role did the Dutch play in North America?
11. Describe New York colony.
12. Describe Pennsylvania colony.
13. What are the characteristics of the Northern Colonies? (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rode Island)
14. What are the characteristics of the Middle Colonies? (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware)
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century Discussion Questions
1.Why was life in the Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland) unhealthy?
2.What was the tobacco economy like?
3.What were the causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion?
4.What was colonial slavery like?
5.Describe the lives of slaves. How did they keep their culture alive?
6.Describe the structure of Southern society?
7.What was the New England family like?
8.What was life like in New England towns?
9.What is the Half-Way Covenant?
10.What were the causes and effects of the Salem Witch Trials?
11.What was the New England way of life?
12.What generalizations can be made about the colonists in the 17th Century?
Unit 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution Discussion Questions
1.Describe the population in the colonies on the eve of revolution.
2.What various ethnic groups were present in the colonies on the eve of revolution?
3.What was the social structure of colonial America?
4.What were the most common professions in the colonies?
5.Describe the typical work in the colonies.
6.How good was horsepower and sail power in the colonies?
7.What were the two dominant churches in the colonies?
8.What was the Great Awakening?
9.Describe schools and colleges in the colonies.
10.Describe the press in the colonies.
11.What were politics like in the colonies?
12.Describe the colonies on the eve of revolution.
Unit 2 - The American Revolution
Chapter 6: The Dual for North America - Discussion Questions
1.Describe New France.
2.What did the French do in New France?
3.Why was the Ohio Valley important to the French?
4.What role did Washington play in the Ohio Valley?
5.What was the Albany Congress?
6.Who was General Braddock?
7.What was the British strategy in the French and Indian War?
8.What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
9.What affects did the French and Indian War have on the colonists?
10. How were the colonists not united during the French and Indian War?
11.What is the significance of Chief Pontiac?
12.What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Chapter 7: Road to Revolution - Discussion Questions
1.What is Republicanism and who were the Radical Whigs?
2.Define Mercantilism.
3.What were the Navigation Laws of 1650?
4.What were the benefits and drawbacks of Mercantilism for the colonists?
5.What was the Stamp Act?
6.Why were the British forced to repeal the Stamp Act?
7.What was the Townshend Act?
8.Define the Committees of Correspondence.
9.What was the Boston Tea Party?
10.What were the Intolerable Acts?
11.What were the accomplishments of the First Continental Congress?
12.What were the strengths and weaknesses of the British?
13.What were the strengths and weaknesses of the colonists?
14.Who actually fought in the American Revolution?
Chapter 8: American Succedes from the Empire - Discussion Questions
1.What did the Second Continental Congress accomplish?
2. Describe Washington’s strengths and weaknesses.
3.Describe the Battle of Bunker Hill.
4.Describe the invasion of Canada.
5.What was the significance of Common Sense?
6.What grievances are included it the Declaration of Independence?
7.Who were the patriots and loyalists?
8. What was the loyalists exodus?
9.Describe the Battle of Trenton and Princeton.
10.What happened at Valley Forge?
11.Describe the Battle of Saratoga.
12. How did France help in the American Revolution?
13.Describe the fighting in the South.
14.What role did Native-Americans play in the American Revolution?
15.What was the role of the Navy during the American Revolution?
16.Describe the Battle of Yorktown.
17.What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Chapter 9 - The Confederation and Constitution Discussion Questions
1.How was equality pursued and ignored at the end of the American Revolution?
2.Describe the state constitutions.
3.What was the state of the economy at the end of the American Revolution?
4.What were the problems with the Articles of Confederation?
5.What were the success of the A of C?
6.What is the Land Ordinance?
7.What is the Northwest Ordinance?
8.Describe Americas relationship with the British at the end of the American Revolution.
9.Describe Americas relationship with the Spanish and French at the end of the American Revolution.
10.What were the causes and effects of Shays’ Rebellion?
11.Describe the people who meet in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution. What were their goals?
12.What powers was the President given?
13.What was the Great Compromise?
14.What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
15.Describe the Federalists.
16.Describe the Antifederalists.
17.Why was the Constitution a conservative triumph?
Chapter 10: Launching a New Ship of State - Discussion Questions
1.Describe the Washington administration.
2.Describe the Bill of Rights.
3.What was Hamilton’s Financial Plan?
4.Describe the external and internal taxes under Hamilton.
5.Why did Hamilton and Jefferson battle over the Bank of the United States (BUS)?
6.What were the causes and effects of the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)?
7.What two political parties emerged? Why?
8.What reaction did Americans have to the French Revolution?
9.What was Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation?
10.What was the Treaty of Greenville?
11.What was Jay’s Treaty?
12.Describe the Adams’ Presidency.
13.What was the XYZ Affair? What was the Convention of 1800?
14.What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
15.What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
16.Compare the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
Unit 3 - The Growth of the Nation
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the election of 1800.
2. What was the Revolution of 1800? What were Jefferson’s goals as President?
3. Describe Jefferson as President.
4. What did Jefferson get rid of and what did he keep as President?
5. What is the Judiciary Act of 1801?
6. Describe Chief Justice John Marshall.
7. What was the Marbury v. Madison case? Why is it significant?
8. How was Jefferson a reluctant warrior?
9. Describe the Louisiana Purchase?
10. What did the Louis and Clark expedition produce?
11. Describe the Aaron Burr conspiracy.
12. Describe the fighting between the British and French.
13. What was the Embargo Act (1807)? What was the Non-Intercourse Act? Why did the Embargo fail?
14. Was is Macon’s Bill No. 2?
15. Who were the War Hawks?
16. Describe the Battle of Tippecanoe?
17. Why did President Madison believe that war was inevitable in 1812?
18. Who supported and opposed the War of 1812?
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the fighting in Canada.
2. Describe the fighting in Washington D.C. and New Orleans.
3. What were the terms of the Treaty of Ghent?
4. What were the Federalists grievances at the Hartford Convention?
5. What were the effects of the War of 1812?
6. Describe the rise of nationalism after the War of 1812?
7. What was the American System?
8. Why is the “Era of Good Feelings” a misnomer?
9. What were the causes and effects of the Panic of 1819?
10. Why were Americans moving West?
11. What was the Tallmadge Amendment?
12. What was the Missouri Compromise?
13. Describe McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Cohens v. Virginia and their significance.
14. Describe Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) and Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and their significance
15. Describe Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) and its significance.
16. What was the Treaty of 1818?
17. What was the Florida Purchase Treaty (1819)?
18. What was the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
Chapter 13: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy - Discussion Questions
1. What was the Corrupt Bargain (1824)?
2. Describe President Adams.
3. What the Jackson campaign like?
4. Describe President Jackson.
5. What was the Spoils System?
6. What was the Tariff of Abominations (1828)? Why did the South dislike the tariff.
7. What were the effects of the Tariff of 1832?
8. What was the Trail of Tears? What events led to the Trail of Tears?
9. What was Jackson’s opinion of the Bank of the United States?
10. Describe the election of 1832?
11. Describe the Bank War.
12. Describe the Whig Party.
13. Describe the election of 1836.
14. Describe President Van Buren.
15. What were the causes and effects of the Panic of 1837?
16. What happened in Texas in 1836?
17. Describe President William Henry Harrison.
18. How did politics change after the “Era of Good Feelings?
19. Describe the Democrats and the Whigs.
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe life in the West.
2. What is Ecological Imperialism?
3. Describe the growth of cities. Why did immigrants come to the US?
4. Describe Irish immigrants in the US.
5. Describe German immigrants in the US.
6. What is Nativism. What were the effects of Nativism?
7. Why was the US slow to mechanize?
8. Who is Eli Whitney? Why were textile factories located in the North?
9. What impact did the sewing machine, telegraph, and interchangeable parts have on manufacturing?
10. Describe wage workers. Why is Commonwealth v. Hunt significant?
11. Describe the role of women both in the home and outside of the home.
12. What was the revolution in the fields?
13. Describe what traveling by land and water was like.
14. What impact did the Erie Canal have?
15. Describe the railroads.
16. What impact did cables, clippers, and ponies have?
17. Describe the specialization of each region in the US – the West, South, and North
18. What was the Market Revolution?
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture - Discussion Questions
1. What is Deism?
2. Describe the Unitarian churches.
3. What were the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening?
4. Describe the Mormon Church.
5. Describe education in the 1800s. What were the goals of Horace Mann for education in the
United States?
6. Describe colleges in the 1800s.
7. Significance of Dorothea Dix.
8. Describe the Temperance Movement.
9. Describe the Suffrage Movement.
10. Describe the Oneida Community and the Shakers Community.
11. What were some artistic achievements in the early 1800s?
12. Describe literature in the 1800s.
13. What is Transcendentalism? Who were some famous Transcendentalists?
14. Who was Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson?
15. Why are Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville important
16. Who were some famous historians?
Unit 4 - Sectionalism and the Civil War
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe King Cotton.
2. What was the planter aristocracy in the South?
3. Why did few immigrants settle in the South?
4. Why did most whites support the institution of slavery when only about ¼ of them owned slaves?
5. Describe the lives of free blacks.
6. What was plantation society like?
7. Describe the daily lives of slaves.
8. How did slaves resist slavery?
9. Who were the early abolitionists?
10. Who were the radical abolitionists?
11. How did the South lash back at abolitionists?
12. Why didn’t the North deal with the issue of slavery?
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe President Tyler.
2. On what issues did President Tyler disagree with the Whig Party?
3. What was the War of Words with Great Britain?
4. What did Canada and Maine fight over? What was the result?
5. Why was Great Britain interested in Texas? Why was this a problem for the United States?
6. Who had claims to the Oregon Territory?
7. Describe the election of 1844.
8. What is Manifest Destiny?
9. Describe President Polk.
10. Describe US relations with Mexico.
11. What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
12. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
13. What were the losses and gains from the Mexican-American War?
14. What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle - Discussion Questions
1. What is popular sovereignty?
2. Describe the Whig Party and Zachary Taylor.
3. Describe the Free Soil Party.
4. Describe California.
5. Describe the sectionalism struggle.
6. What was the Seventh of March Speech?
7. What was the Compromise of 1850?
8. Describe the election of 1852.
9. What was the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)?
10. Why was the US interested in Cuba?
11. What was the Treaty of Wanghia (1844)?
12. What was the Treaty of Kanagawaan (1854)?
13. What was the Gadsden Purchase (1853)?
14. What was the Kansas- Nebraska Act (1854)?
Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion - Discussion Question
1. Significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
2. Significance of Hinton R. Helper.
3. Who went to Kansas?
4. What happened in Kansas?
5. What happened to Senator Charles Sumner?
6. Describe the election of 1856.
7. What was the Dred Scott decision?
8. What were the causes and effects of the crash of 1857?
9. What was the Freeport Doctrine?
10. What happens at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
11. Describe the Democratic Party during the election of 1860.
12. What was the Republican platform?
13. What happened when Lincoln won the election of 1860?
14. What was the Crittended Compromise?
15. Why did the Southern states secede?
Chapter 20: Girding for War – The North and the South - Discussion Questions
1. Why did Lincoln think secession was impractical?
2. What happened at Fort Sumter?
3. Who were the border states? Why were they important?
4. Who did Native-Americans support during the Civil War?
5. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the South?
6. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the North?
7. Why did King Cotton fail to get support?
8. What was the Trent Affair?
9. What was the role of the Alabama ship?
10. Describe foreign flare ups during the Civil War.
11. What were the weaknesses of Davis’Confederacy?
12. What were the strengths of Lincoln?
13. What actions did Lincoln take without the consent of Congress?
14. How did the North and South get their soldiers?
15. How did the North and South pay for the war?
16. Describe the economic boom in the North during the war.
17. Describe the economic situation of the South during the war.
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the Battle of Bull Run. What is the significance of the battle?
2. Who was George B. McClellan?
3. How did the Union plan for total war?
4. Describe the fighting at sea.
5. Describe the Battle of Antietam.
6. Why is the Battle of Antietam significant?
7. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
8. What was the reaction to the EP?
9. How did African-Americans directly help the Union?
10. How did African-Americans indirectly help the Union?
11. Describe the Battle of Gettysburg.
12. Describe the Battle of Vicksburg.
13. Describe Sherman’s March to Sea.
14. Describe the election of 1864.
15. How did the Civil War end?
16. How did Lincoln die?
17. What were the costs of the Civil War?
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction - Discussion Questions
1. What was the state of the South after the Civil War?
2. Describe the lives of African-Americans after the Civil War?
3. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
4. Describe President Johnson.
5. What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
6. What was Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?
7. What were the Black Codes?
8. What was Congressional Reconstruction?
9. What was the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and the 14th Amendment?
10. Describe the Radical Republicans and Moderate Republicans.
11. What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and the 15thAmendment?
12. Describe the achievements of Radical Reconstruction .
13. Describe the KKK.
14. Why was President Johnson put on trial?
15. Why was President Johnson not impeached?
16. Describe the purchase of Alaska.
17. What is the legacy of Reconstruction?
Unit 5 - The Gilded Age
Chapter 23 - Politics of the Gilded Age Discussion Questions
1.Describe the election of 1868.
2.Describe the “era of good stealing's.”
3.What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal and the Whiskey Ring?
4.Describe the election of 1872.
5.What were the causes of the Depression in 1873?
6.What were the effects of the Depression of 1873?
7.Describe the Republican Party and Democratic Party during the Gilded Age.
8.Describe the Hayes-Tilded standoff of 1876.
9.What was the Compromise of 1877?
10.What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
11.Describe the Jim Crow South.
12.What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
13.Describe
the election of 1880.
14.What was the Pendleton Act?
15.Describe President Grover Cleveland.
16.Why did Cleveland want to lower tariffs?
17.Describe Congress during Harrison’s presidency.
18.What was the Populist Party Platform?
19.What were the causes of the Depression of 1892?
20.What was the Wilson-Gorman Tariff?
Chapter 24 – Industry Comes of Age Discussion Questions
1.Why did the government give money to build the railroads?
2.Describe the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad.
3.What railroads were completed by the turn of the twentieth century?
4.How were railroads made stronger?
5.What affects did the railroads have on the United States?
6.Describe some of the wrongdoings by railroad companies.
7.What is the significance of the Wabash Case and the Interstate Commerce Act (1887.)
8.Why did the United States become first in manufacturing?
9.What is vertical and horizontal integration?
10.What is the significance of the Bessemer steel process?
11.Describe Andrew Carnegie.
12.Describe John D. Rockefeller.
13.What is the Gospel of Wealth?
14.What is the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
15.Describe the economy of the South by the turn of the twentieth century.
16.What was the impact of industrialization?
17.Why were labor unions unsuccessful during the Gilded Age?
18.Describe the National Labor Union.
19.Describe the Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Square Riot?
20.Describe the American Federation of Labor.
Chapter 25 - America Moves to the City Discussion Questions
1.Describe life in urban centers during the Gilded Age?
2.Who were the old immigrants and new immigrants?
3.Why did the new immigrants leave Europe?
4.What were the positive reactions to the new immigrants?
5.Why did the old immigrants dislike the new immigrants?
6.How did churches confront the urban challenge?
7.How did Darwin disrupt religion?
8.Describe education during the Gilded Age.
9.Who was Booker T. Washington?
10.Describe colleges during the Gilded Age.
11.How did education change during the Gilded Age?
12.Describe he press during the Gilded Age.
13.Describe authors during the Gilded Age.
14.What was the new morality?
15.Describe the suffrage movement during the Gilded Age.
16.Describe prohibition during the Gilded Age.
Chapter 26 – The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution Discussion Questions
1.What challenges did Native-Americans face in the West?
2.Describe the Treaties of Fort Laramie (1851 and 1853.)
3.Describe the Battle of Little Bighorn.
4.Describe the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain.
5.Why were Native-Americans finally defeated?
6.Describe the fate of the buffalo.
7.Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
8.Describe the Battle of Wounded Knee?
9.What was the Dawes Severalty Act (1887)?
10.Describe the West – the discovery of gold, western towns, and people?
11.What is the significance of cattle and the long drive?
12.What was the Homestead Act? What effects did the act have?
13.What is the Turner Thesis and the Safety-Valve Theory?
14.How did farms become factories?
15.What problems did farmers face because of deflation?
16.What was the Grange organization?
17.Describe the Populist Party Platform?
18.Describe Coxey’s Army (1893) and the Pullman Strike (1894)?
19.Describe William McKinley.
20.Describe William Jennings Bryan.
21.What were the results of the election of 1896?
22.What was the Dingley Tariff Bill (1897) and the Gold Standard Act (1900)?
Unit 6 - Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and WWI
Chapter 27 – Empire and Expansion Discussion Questions
1. Why did the US begin to look overseas for an empire?
2. What international conflicts were Americans involved in? (ex. In Latin America, Germany, Italy, Chile, Canada, and Venezuela)
3. Why and how was Hawaii annexed?
4. Why did Cubans rise in revolt against the Spanish?
5. Why did McKinley declare war?
6. Describe the fighting in the Philippines.
7. Describe the fighting in Cuba.
8. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
9. Describe the arguments of the Anti-Imperialistic League against imperialism.
10. Describe what happens to Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War.
11. Describe what happens to Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
12. What were the lasting effects of the Spanish-American War on the US?
13. Describe what happens in Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
14. What was the Open Door Policy and the Boxer Rebellion?
15. Describe President Theodore Roosevelt.
16. Describe the building of the Panama Canal.
17. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
18. What was the Portsmouth Treaty (1905)?
19. What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907 – 1908)?
Chapter 28 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt Discussion Questions
1. Describe the roots of progressivism.
2. Who were the muckrakers?
3. Describe political progressivism.
4. Describe progressivism in the cities and states.
5. Who were the women involved in the Progressive Movement?
6. Describe Presidents’ Roosevelt Square Deal.
7. How did Roosevelt control corporations?
8. How did Roosevelt care for the consumer?
9. How did Roosevelt care for the environment?
10. What was the Roosevelt panic?
11. What was Roosevelt’s legacy?
12. Describe Taft.
13. What is Dollar Diplomacy?
14. Describe Taft’s relationship with corporations.
15. How did Taft split the Republican Party?
16. Why was there a rupture with Taft and Roosevelt?
Chapter 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad Discussion Questions
1. Describe the election of 1912.
2. Why was Wilson the minority president?
3. Describe President Wilson.
4. How did Wilson tackle the tariff?
5. How did Wilson battle the banks?
6. How did Wilson tame the trusts?
7. What was Wilson progressivism?
8. Describe Wilson’s foreign policy.
9. Describe US relations with Mexico.
10. Describe what was happening in Europe during Wilson’s first term in office.
11. Why/How long was the US neutral?
12. How did America earn bloody money?
13. Why did Wilson win reelection?
Chapter 30 - The War to End Wars Discussion Questions
1. Why did the US decide to enter WWI?
2. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
3. Describe the Committee on Public Information.
4. How was loyalty enforced?
5. What was the War Industries Board?
6. What was the 1919 steel strike and the Great Migration?
7. Describe the suffrage movement during WWI.
8. What was the Food Administration and the Fuel Administration?
9. Who was drafted for the war?
10. What was the fighting in France like?
11. How did the US defeat Germany?
12. How did the US help bring WWI to an end?
13. What happened in Paris?
14. Describe the peace treaty.
15. Describe Wilson’s tour.
16. What happened to the Treaty of Versailles?
17. Describe the presidential election of 1920?
18. How did WWI led to WWII?
Unit 7 - The Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and WWII
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” Discussion Questions
1. What were the causes of the Red Scare and what did General A. Mitchell Palmer do?
2. Describe some anti-Red policies.
3. What role did the KKK play in the 1920s?
4. What was the Emergency Immigration Quota of 1921, the Immigration Act of 1924, and the Immigration Act of 1929?
5. Why did the 18th Amendment fail? What were some positive effects of the 18th Amendment?
6. Describe the gangsters of the 1920s.
7. What was the Scopes Trial?
8. Describe the mass consumption economy.
9. How did cars positively and negatively change American society?
10. Describe the development of airplanes.
11. Describe the development of radio.
12. Describe Hollywood in the 1920s.
13. What were some social changes of the 1920s?
14. Who were some of the most famous authors of the 1920s and what did they write about?
15. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
16. Who was Frank Lloyd Wright
17. What is happening on Wall Street in the 1920s?
18. Describe the policies of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.
Chapter 32 – The Politics of Boom and Bust Discussion Questions
1. Describe President Harding.
2. Describe Harding’s economic policies.
3. What happened to the wartime government controls after WWI?
4. Describe labor unions during the 1920s.
5. What was the Veterans Bureau and the Adjustment Compensation Act?
6. What was the Five Power Naval Treaty (1922) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)?
7. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
8. Describe President Coolidge.
9. What problems did farmers face in the 1920s?
10. What was the Capper VoldsteadAct and the McNary-Haugen Bill?
11. Describe the election of 1924.
12. Describe US relations with Latin America in the 1920s.
13. What was the Dawes Plan?
14. Describe the election of 1928.
15. What was the Agricultural Marketing Act, Farm Board, and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930?
16. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
17. How did Hoover Battle the Great Depression?
18. What was the Bonus Army?
19. What were the first moves of WWII and what was the Stimson Doctrine?
20. What was the Good Neighbor Policy?
Chapter 33 – The Great Depression and the New Deal Discussion Questions
1. Describe FDR.
2. What were the results of the election of 1932?
3. Describe FDR’s relief, recovery, and reform programs.
4. How did FDR reform the financial industry?
5. How did FDR create jobs?
6. Who were some of the demagogues during the Great Depression?
7. How did women become more visible during the Great Depression?
8. How did FDR help industry and labor?
9. What was the Dust Bowl?
10. How did the New Deal battle the banks?
11. What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
12. Describe housing and social security reform.
13. What was the New Deal for labor?
14. Describe the election of 1936
15. How did FDR try to change the Supreme Court?
16. Describe the New Deal during FDR’s second term in office.
17. How was the New Deal a raw deal?
Chapter 34 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War Discussion Questions
1. What was the London Economic Conference? What were the effects of FDR sending no delegates?
2. Why did the US get rid of the Philippines?
3. How did the US become a good neighbor to Latin America?
4. What was the Reciprocal Trade Agreement?
5. Describe what’s happening in the USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan ? What alliances did these countries create?
6. Describe the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937?
7. Describe the Spanish-Civil War.
8. How were Japan and Germany appeased?
9. What was the Non-Aggression Treaty and Cash-and-Carry?
10. Describe the fighting in France?
11. How did the US help Great Britain?
12. Describe the election of 1940.
13. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
14. What was the Atlantic Charter?
15. Describe the clashes between US destroyers and U-boats.
16. What happened at Pearl Harbor?
17. Why did the US enter WWII?
Chapter 35 – America in WWII Discussion Questions
1. What were some challenges for the US during WWII?
2. What were the causes and effects of Japanese internment?
3. How was the war machine built?
4. Describe manpower and womenpower during WWII?
5. What was wartime migration?
6. Describe the home front during WWII.
7. Describe the war in the pacific.
8. Describe the Battle of Midway.
9. What was island hopping?
10. How was Hitler halted?
11. Describe the second front during WWII.
12. Describe D-Day.
13. Describe the presidential election of 1944.
14. Describe the lasts days of Hitler.
15. Why did Japan die hard?
16. Why were the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
17. Describe the allied triumph.
Unit 9 - Modern America
Chapter 36 Discussion Questions
1.Describe the US economy after WWII.
2.What was the GI Bill of Rights?
3.Describe the overall economic boom after WWII.
4.Why was the US so prosperous after WWII?
5.Describe the region know as the Sunbelt.
6.Why did Americans move to the suburbs?
7.What was the baby boom?
8.Describe the Yalta Conference.
9.Why did the US and USSR dislike each other?
10.Describe the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the United Nations.
11.What were the Nuremburg Trials and the Berlin Airlift?
12.What is containment, Truman Doctrine, and Marshall Plan?
13.What was the National Security Act (1947)?
14.Why did the US join NATO?
15.Describe what happens to Japan and China after WWII.
16.What was the Smith Act and the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
17.Describe the split in the Democratic Party in 1948.
18.What was Truman’s Fair Deal? What were the success of the Fair Deal?
19.What were the causes and effects of the Korean War?
Chapter 37 Questions
Chapter 39 Discussion Questions
Chapter 40 Discussion Questions
Chapter 41 Discussion Questions
Chapter 36 Discussion Questions
Chapter 37 Questions
Chapter 38 Discussion Questions
Chapter 39 Discussion Questions
Chapter 40 Discussion Questions
Chapter 41 Discussion Questions
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the election of 1800.
2. What was the Revolution of 1800? What were Jefferson’s goals as President?
3. Describe Jefferson as President.
4. What did Jefferson get rid of and what did he keep as President?
5. What is the Judiciary Act of 1801?
6. Describe Chief Justice John Marshall.
7. What was the Marbury v. Madison case? Why is it significant?
8. How was Jefferson a reluctant warrior?
9. Describe the Louisiana Purchase?
10. What did the Louis and Clark expedition produce?
11. Describe the Aaron Burr conspiracy.
12. Describe the fighting between the British and French.
13. What was the Embargo Act (1807)? What was the Non-Intercourse Act? Why did the Embargo fail?
14. Was is Macon’s Bill No. 2?
15. Who were the War Hawks?
16. Describe the Battle of Tippecanoe?
17. Why did President Madison believe that war was inevitable in 1812?
18. Who supported and opposed the War of 1812?
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the fighting in Canada.
2. Describe the fighting in Washington D.C. and New Orleans.
3. What were the terms of the Treaty of Ghent?
4. What were the Federalists grievances at the Hartford Convention?
5. What were the effects of the War of 1812?
6. Describe the rise of nationalism after the War of 1812?
7. What was the American System?
8. Why is the “Era of Good Feelings” a misnomer?
9. What were the causes and effects of the Panic of 1819?
10. Why were Americans moving West?
11. What was the Tallmadge Amendment?
12. What was the Missouri Compromise?
13. Describe McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Cohens v. Virginia and their significance.
14. Describe Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) and Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and their significance
15. Describe Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) and its significance.
16. What was the Treaty of 1818?
17. What was the Florida Purchase Treaty (1819)?
18. What was the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
Chapter 13: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy - Discussion Questions
1. What was the Corrupt Bargain (1824)?
2. Describe President Adams.
3. What the Jackson campaign like?
4. Describe President Jackson.
5. What was the Spoils System?
6. What was the Tariff of Abominations (1828)? Why did the South dislike the tariff.
7. What were the effects of the Tariff of 1832?
8. What was the Trail of Tears? What events led to the Trail of Tears?
9. What was Jackson’s opinion of the Bank of the United States?
10. Describe the election of 1832?
11. Describe the Bank War.
12. Describe the Whig Party.
13. Describe the election of 1836.
14. Describe President Van Buren.
15. What were the causes and effects of the Panic of 1837?
16. What happened in Texas in 1836?
17. Describe President William Henry Harrison.
18. How did politics change after the “Era of Good Feelings?
19. Describe the Democrats and the Whigs.
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe life in the West.
2. What is Ecological Imperialism?
3. Describe the growth of cities. Why did immigrants come to the US?
4. Describe Irish immigrants in the US.
5. Describe German immigrants in the US.
6. What is Nativism. What were the effects of Nativism?
7. Why was the US slow to mechanize?
8. Who is Eli Whitney? Why were textile factories located in the North?
9. What impact did the sewing machine, telegraph, and interchangeable parts have on manufacturing?
10. Describe wage workers. Why is Commonwealth v. Hunt significant?
11. Describe the role of women both in the home and outside of the home.
12. What was the revolution in the fields?
13. Describe what traveling by land and water was like.
14. What impact did the Erie Canal have?
15. Describe the railroads.
16. What impact did cables, clippers, and ponies have?
17. Describe the specialization of each region in the US – the West, South, and North
18. What was the Market Revolution?
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture - Discussion Questions
1. What is Deism?
2. Describe the Unitarian churches.
3. What were the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening?
4. Describe the Mormon Church.
5. Describe education in the 1800s. What were the goals of Horace Mann for education in the
United States?
6. Describe colleges in the 1800s.
7. Significance of Dorothea Dix.
8. Describe the Temperance Movement.
9. Describe the Suffrage Movement.
10. Describe the Oneida Community and the Shakers Community.
11. What were some artistic achievements in the early 1800s?
12. Describe literature in the 1800s.
13. What is Transcendentalism? Who were some famous Transcendentalists?
14. Who was Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson?
15. Why are Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville important
16. Who were some famous historians?
Unit 4 - Sectionalism and the Civil War
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe King Cotton.
2. What was the planter aristocracy in the South?
3. Why did few immigrants settle in the South?
4. Why did most whites support the institution of slavery when only about ¼ of them owned slaves?
5. Describe the lives of free blacks.
6. What was plantation society like?
7. Describe the daily lives of slaves.
8. How did slaves resist slavery?
9. Who were the early abolitionists?
10. Who were the radical abolitionists?
11. How did the South lash back at abolitionists?
12. Why didn’t the North deal with the issue of slavery?
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy - Discussion Questions
1. Describe President Tyler.
2. On what issues did President Tyler disagree with the Whig Party?
3. What was the War of Words with Great Britain?
4. What did Canada and Maine fight over? What was the result?
5. Why was Great Britain interested in Texas? Why was this a problem for the United States?
6. Who had claims to the Oregon Territory?
7. Describe the election of 1844.
8. What is Manifest Destiny?
9. Describe President Polk.
10. Describe US relations with Mexico.
11. What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
12. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
13. What were the losses and gains from the Mexican-American War?
14. What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle - Discussion Questions
1. What is popular sovereignty?
2. Describe the Whig Party and Zachary Taylor.
3. Describe the Free Soil Party.
4. Describe California.
5. Describe the sectionalism struggle.
6. What was the Seventh of March Speech?
7. What was the Compromise of 1850?
8. Describe the election of 1852.
9. What was the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)?
10. Why was the US interested in Cuba?
11. What was the Treaty of Wanghia (1844)?
12. What was the Treaty of Kanagawaan (1854)?
13. What was the Gadsden Purchase (1853)?
14. What was the Kansas- Nebraska Act (1854)?
Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion - Discussion Question
1. Significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
2. Significance of Hinton R. Helper.
3. Who went to Kansas?
4. What happened in Kansas?
5. What happened to Senator Charles Sumner?
6. Describe the election of 1856.
7. What was the Dred Scott decision?
8. What were the causes and effects of the crash of 1857?
9. What was the Freeport Doctrine?
10. What happens at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
11. Describe the Democratic Party during the election of 1860.
12. What was the Republican platform?
13. What happened when Lincoln won the election of 1860?
14. What was the Crittended Compromise?
15. Why did the Southern states secede?
Chapter 20: Girding for War – The North and the South - Discussion Questions
1. Why did Lincoln think secession was impractical?
2. What happened at Fort Sumter?
3. Who were the border states? Why were they important?
4. Who did Native-Americans support during the Civil War?
5. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the South?
6. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the North?
7. Why did King Cotton fail to get support?
8. What was the Trent Affair?
9. What was the role of the Alabama ship?
10. Describe foreign flare ups during the Civil War.
11. What were the weaknesses of Davis’Confederacy?
12. What were the strengths of Lincoln?
13. What actions did Lincoln take without the consent of Congress?
14. How did the North and South get their soldiers?
15. How did the North and South pay for the war?
16. Describe the economic boom in the North during the war.
17. Describe the economic situation of the South during the war.
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War - Discussion Questions
1. Describe the Battle of Bull Run. What is the significance of the battle?
2. Who was George B. McClellan?
3. How did the Union plan for total war?
4. Describe the fighting at sea.
5. Describe the Battle of Antietam.
6. Why is the Battle of Antietam significant?
7. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
8. What was the reaction to the EP?
9. How did African-Americans directly help the Union?
10. How did African-Americans indirectly help the Union?
11. Describe the Battle of Gettysburg.
12. Describe the Battle of Vicksburg.
13. Describe Sherman’s March to Sea.
14. Describe the election of 1864.
15. How did the Civil War end?
16. How did Lincoln die?
17. What were the costs of the Civil War?
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction - Discussion Questions
1. What was the state of the South after the Civil War?
2. Describe the lives of African-Americans after the Civil War?
3. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
4. Describe President Johnson.
5. What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
6. What was Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?
7. What were the Black Codes?
8. What was Congressional Reconstruction?
9. What was the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and the 14th Amendment?
10. Describe the Radical Republicans and Moderate Republicans.
11. What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and the 15thAmendment?
12. Describe the achievements of Radical Reconstruction .
13. Describe the KKK.
14. Why was President Johnson put on trial?
15. Why was President Johnson not impeached?
16. Describe the purchase of Alaska.
17. What is the legacy of Reconstruction?
Unit 5 - The Gilded Age
Chapter 23 - Politics of the Gilded Age Discussion Questions
1.Describe the election of 1868.
2.Describe the “era of good stealing's.”
3.What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal and the Whiskey Ring?
4.Describe the election of 1872.
5.What were the causes of the Depression in 1873?
6.What were the effects of the Depression of 1873?
7.Describe the Republican Party and Democratic Party during the Gilded Age.
8.Describe the Hayes-Tilded standoff of 1876.
9.What was the Compromise of 1877?
10.What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
11.Describe the Jim Crow South.
12.What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
13.Describe
the election of 1880.
14.What was the Pendleton Act?
15.Describe President Grover Cleveland.
16.Why did Cleveland want to lower tariffs?
17.Describe Congress during Harrison’s presidency.
18.What was the Populist Party Platform?
19.What were the causes of the Depression of 1892?
20.What was the Wilson-Gorman Tariff?
Chapter 24 – Industry Comes of Age Discussion Questions
1.Why did the government give money to build the railroads?
2.Describe the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad.
3.What railroads were completed by the turn of the twentieth century?
4.How were railroads made stronger?
5.What affects did the railroads have on the United States?
6.Describe some of the wrongdoings by railroad companies.
7.What is the significance of the Wabash Case and the Interstate Commerce Act (1887.)
8.Why did the United States become first in manufacturing?
9.What is vertical and horizontal integration?
10.What is the significance of the Bessemer steel process?
11.Describe Andrew Carnegie.
12.Describe John D. Rockefeller.
13.What is the Gospel of Wealth?
14.What is the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
15.Describe the economy of the South by the turn of the twentieth century.
16.What was the impact of industrialization?
17.Why were labor unions unsuccessful during the Gilded Age?
18.Describe the National Labor Union.
19.Describe the Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Square Riot?
20.Describe the American Federation of Labor.
Chapter 25 - America Moves to the City Discussion Questions
1.Describe life in urban centers during the Gilded Age?
2.Who were the old immigrants and new immigrants?
3.Why did the new immigrants leave Europe?
4.What were the positive reactions to the new immigrants?
5.Why did the old immigrants dislike the new immigrants?
6.How did churches confront the urban challenge?
7.How did Darwin disrupt religion?
8.Describe education during the Gilded Age.
9.Who was Booker T. Washington?
10.Describe colleges during the Gilded Age.
11.How did education change during the Gilded Age?
12.Describe he press during the Gilded Age.
13.Describe authors during the Gilded Age.
14.What was the new morality?
15.Describe the suffrage movement during the Gilded Age.
16.Describe prohibition during the Gilded Age.
Chapter 26 – The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution Discussion Questions
1.What challenges did Native-Americans face in the West?
2.Describe the Treaties of Fort Laramie (1851 and 1853.)
3.Describe the Battle of Little Bighorn.
4.Describe the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain.
5.Why were Native-Americans finally defeated?
6.Describe the fate of the buffalo.
7.Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
8.Describe the Battle of Wounded Knee?
9.What was the Dawes Severalty Act (1887)?
10.Describe the West – the discovery of gold, western towns, and people?
11.What is the significance of cattle and the long drive?
12.What was the Homestead Act? What effects did the act have?
13.What is the Turner Thesis and the Safety-Valve Theory?
14.How did farms become factories?
15.What problems did farmers face because of deflation?
16.What was the Grange organization?
17.Describe the Populist Party Platform?
18.Describe Coxey’s Army (1893) and the Pullman Strike (1894)?
19.Describe William McKinley.
20.Describe William Jennings Bryan.
21.What were the results of the election of 1896?
22.What was the Dingley Tariff Bill (1897) and the Gold Standard Act (1900)?
Unit 6 - Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and WWI
Chapter 27 – Empire and Expansion Discussion Questions
1. Why did the US begin to look overseas for an empire?
2. What international conflicts were Americans involved in? (ex. In Latin America, Germany, Italy, Chile, Canada, and Venezuela)
3. Why and how was Hawaii annexed?
4. Why did Cubans rise in revolt against the Spanish?
5. Why did McKinley declare war?
6. Describe the fighting in the Philippines.
7. Describe the fighting in Cuba.
8. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
9. Describe the arguments of the Anti-Imperialistic League against imperialism.
10. Describe what happens to Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War.
11. Describe what happens to Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
12. What were the lasting effects of the Spanish-American War on the US?
13. Describe what happens in Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
14. What was the Open Door Policy and the Boxer Rebellion?
15. Describe President Theodore Roosevelt.
16. Describe the building of the Panama Canal.
17. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
18. What was the Portsmouth Treaty (1905)?
19. What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907 – 1908)?
Chapter 28 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt Discussion Questions
1. Describe the roots of progressivism.
2. Who were the muckrakers?
3. Describe political progressivism.
4. Describe progressivism in the cities and states.
5. Who were the women involved in the Progressive Movement?
6. Describe Presidents’ Roosevelt Square Deal.
7. How did Roosevelt control corporations?
8. How did Roosevelt care for the consumer?
9. How did Roosevelt care for the environment?
10. What was the Roosevelt panic?
11. What was Roosevelt’s legacy?
12. Describe Taft.
13. What is Dollar Diplomacy?
14. Describe Taft’s relationship with corporations.
15. How did Taft split the Republican Party?
16. Why was there a rupture with Taft and Roosevelt?
Chapter 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad Discussion Questions
1. Describe the election of 1912.
2. Why was Wilson the minority president?
3. Describe President Wilson.
4. How did Wilson tackle the tariff?
5. How did Wilson battle the banks?
6. How did Wilson tame the trusts?
7. What was Wilson progressivism?
8. Describe Wilson’s foreign policy.
9. Describe US relations with Mexico.
10. Describe what was happening in Europe during Wilson’s first term in office.
11. Why/How long was the US neutral?
12. How did America earn bloody money?
13. Why did Wilson win reelection?
Chapter 30 - The War to End Wars Discussion Questions
1. Why did the US decide to enter WWI?
2. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
3. Describe the Committee on Public Information.
4. How was loyalty enforced?
5. What was the War Industries Board?
6. What was the 1919 steel strike and the Great Migration?
7. Describe the suffrage movement during WWI.
8. What was the Food Administration and the Fuel Administration?
9. Who was drafted for the war?
10. What was the fighting in France like?
11. How did the US defeat Germany?
12. How did the US help bring WWI to an end?
13. What happened in Paris?
14. Describe the peace treaty.
15. Describe Wilson’s tour.
16. What happened to the Treaty of Versailles?
17. Describe the presidential election of 1920?
18. How did WWI led to WWII?
Unit 7 - The Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and WWII
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” Discussion Questions
1. What were the causes of the Red Scare and what did General A. Mitchell Palmer do?
2. Describe some anti-Red policies.
3. What role did the KKK play in the 1920s?
4. What was the Emergency Immigration Quota of 1921, the Immigration Act of 1924, and the Immigration Act of 1929?
5. Why did the 18th Amendment fail? What were some positive effects of the 18th Amendment?
6. Describe the gangsters of the 1920s.
7. What was the Scopes Trial?
8. Describe the mass consumption economy.
9. How did cars positively and negatively change American society?
10. Describe the development of airplanes.
11. Describe the development of radio.
12. Describe Hollywood in the 1920s.
13. What were some social changes of the 1920s?
14. Who were some of the most famous authors of the 1920s and what did they write about?
15. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
16. Who was Frank Lloyd Wright
17. What is happening on Wall Street in the 1920s?
18. Describe the policies of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.
Chapter 32 – The Politics of Boom and Bust Discussion Questions
1. Describe President Harding.
2. Describe Harding’s economic policies.
3. What happened to the wartime government controls after WWI?
4. Describe labor unions during the 1920s.
5. What was the Veterans Bureau and the Adjustment Compensation Act?
6. What was the Five Power Naval Treaty (1922) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)?
7. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
8. Describe President Coolidge.
9. What problems did farmers face in the 1920s?
10. What was the Capper VoldsteadAct and the McNary-Haugen Bill?
11. Describe the election of 1924.
12. Describe US relations with Latin America in the 1920s.
13. What was the Dawes Plan?
14. Describe the election of 1928.
15. What was the Agricultural Marketing Act, Farm Board, and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930?
16. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
17. How did Hoover Battle the Great Depression?
18. What was the Bonus Army?
19. What were the first moves of WWII and what was the Stimson Doctrine?
20. What was the Good Neighbor Policy?
Chapter 33 – The Great Depression and the New Deal Discussion Questions
1. Describe FDR.
2. What were the results of the election of 1932?
3. Describe FDR’s relief, recovery, and reform programs.
4. How did FDR reform the financial industry?
5. How did FDR create jobs?
6. Who were some of the demagogues during the Great Depression?
7. How did women become more visible during the Great Depression?
8. How did FDR help industry and labor?
9. What was the Dust Bowl?
10. How did the New Deal battle the banks?
11. What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
12. Describe housing and social security reform.
13. What was the New Deal for labor?
14. Describe the election of 1936
15. How did FDR try to change the Supreme Court?
16. Describe the New Deal during FDR’s second term in office.
17. How was the New Deal a raw deal?
Chapter 34 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War Discussion Questions
1. What was the London Economic Conference? What were the effects of FDR sending no delegates?
2. Why did the US get rid of the Philippines?
3. How did the US become a good neighbor to Latin America?
4. What was the Reciprocal Trade Agreement?
5. Describe what’s happening in the USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan ? What alliances did these countries create?
6. Describe the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937?
7. Describe the Spanish-Civil War.
8. How were Japan and Germany appeased?
9. What was the Non-Aggression Treaty and Cash-and-Carry?
10. Describe the fighting in France?
11. How did the US help Great Britain?
12. Describe the election of 1940.
13. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
14. What was the Atlantic Charter?
15. Describe the clashes between US destroyers and U-boats.
16. What happened at Pearl Harbor?
17. Why did the US enter WWII?
Chapter 35 – America in WWII Discussion Questions
1. What were some challenges for the US during WWII?
2. What were the causes and effects of Japanese internment?
3. How was the war machine built?
4. Describe manpower and womenpower during WWII?
5. What was wartime migration?
6. Describe the home front during WWII.
7. Describe the war in the pacific.
8. Describe the Battle of Midway.
9. What was island hopping?
10. How was Hitler halted?
11. Describe the second front during WWII.
12. Describe D-Day.
13. Describe the presidential election of 1944.
14. Describe the lasts days of Hitler.
15. Why did Japan die hard?
16. Why were the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
17. Describe the allied triumph.
Unit 9 - Modern America
Chapter 36 Discussion Questions
1.Describe the US economy after WWII.
2.What was the GI Bill of Rights?
3.Describe the overall economic boom after WWII.
4.Why was the US so prosperous after WWII?
5.Describe the region know as the Sunbelt.
6.Why did Americans move to the suburbs?
7.What was the baby boom?
8.Describe the Yalta Conference.
9.Why did the US and USSR dislike each other?
10.Describe the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the United Nations.
11.What were the Nuremburg Trials and the Berlin Airlift?
12.What is containment, Truman Doctrine, and Marshall Plan?
13.What was the National Security Act (1947)?
14.Why did the US join NATO?
15.Describe what happens to Japan and China after WWII.
16.What was the Smith Act and the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
17.Describe the split in the Democratic Party in 1948.
18.What was Truman’s Fair Deal? What were the success of the Fair Deal?
19.What were the causes and effects of the Korean War?
Chapter 37 Questions
- Describe American industry in the 1950s.
- Who is Betty Friedan?
- Describe American consumer culture in the 1950s.
- Describe the election of 1952.
- Describe the end of the Korean War.
- What were the causes and effects of McCarthyism?
- Describe the lives of African-Americans in the North and South.
- Significance of Rosa Parks.
- What was Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and what happened in Little Rock, Arkansas?
- What role did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee play in the Civil Rights Movement?
- What were some of President Eisenhower’s goals at home?
- Describe President Eisenhower’s foreign policy.
- What happened in Vietnam after WWII?
- What was the Suez Crisis (1956)?
- What is the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
- Describe the election of 1956. What significant scientific and educational advancements were made in the 1950s?
- What were the causes and effects of the Cuban Revolution in 1959?
- Describe the election of 1960.
- What was President Eisenhower’s legacy?
- What contributions did writers, poets, playwrights, African-Americans, southerners, and Jews make to the literary world?
- Describe President Kennedy.
- What was Kennedy’s New Frontier?
- Describe Kennedy’s foreign policy.
- What was flexible response?
- What happened in Vietnam?
- Describe the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Describe the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960’s.
- Describe Johnson’s presidency.
- Describe the election of 1964.
- Describe the Great Society.
- Describe Freedom Summer (1964) and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Describe Black Power.
- Describe the Cold War in Latin American and Vietnam.
- What was the American attitude towards Vietnam?
- How did the Vietnam War topple President Johnson?
- Describe the Presidential Election of 1968.
- What is President Johnson’s legacy?
- Describe the cultural upheaval of the 1960’s.
Chapter 39 Discussion Questions
- Define stagflation. What were the sources of stagflation?
- What was Vietnamization and the Silent Majority?
- What were the causes and effects of the bombing of Cambodia?
- What was détente?
- What were the most significant ruling of the Warren Court?
- What programs did President Nixon implement at home?
- How did Nixon help minorities and women?
- How did Nixon help the environment? What was Nixon’s southern strategy?
- Describe the election of 1972.
- What was the War Powers Act of 1973?
- What were the causes and effects of the Oil Embargo?
- What was the Watergate Scandal (1972)?
- What were the Helsinki Accords?
- Describe the end of the Vietnam War.
- What were some legal victories and defeats for women in the 1970s?
- Significance of Milliken v. Bradley (1974), Bakke v. University of California (1978) and US v. Wheeler (1978.)
- Describe the election of 1976.
- Describe foreign policy during President Carter’s administration.
- What were the economic and energy problems of the 1970s?
- What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Chapter 40 Discussion Questions
- Describe the election of 1980. What was Reagan’s platform?
- What was Reagan’s philosophy about government? What changes did Reagan implement as president?
- Describe Reagan’s plan for the economy.
- How did Reagan renew the Cold War?
- Describe US intervention in Lebanon and Nicaragua?
- Describe the election of 1984?
- What changes did the new Chairman of the USSR Gorbachev implement in 1985?
- What was the Iran-Contra affair?
- What was Reagan’s economic legacy?
- Describe the Moral Majority.
- What is the significance of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)?
- Describe the election of 1988.
- Describe President Bush?
- How did the Cold War end?
- What were the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War?
- Describe Bush’s policies on the home front.
Chapter 41 Discussion Questions
- Describe the election of 1992.
- What domestic successes and failures did Clinton have?
- Describe the midterm elections of 1994.
- Describe Clinton’s second term.
- Describe US foreign relations in Africa, Haiti, and China.
- Describe US foreign relations in Serbia and Israel.
- What were the causes and outcomes of Clinton’s impeachment trial?
- What was Clinton’s legacy?
- Describe the election of 2000.
- Why was the election of 2000 controversial?
- What policies did Bush support and oppose?
- Who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks? Why?
- What is asymmetrical warfare and the Patriot Act?
- Describe the war against Iraq.
- Describe the occupation of Iraq.
- What conflicts divided Americans?
- Describe the election of 2004.
Chapter 36 Discussion Questions
- Describe the US economy after WWII.
- What was the GI Bill of Rights?
- Describe the overall economic boom after WWII.
- Why was the US so prosperous after WWII?
- Describe the region known as the Sunbelt.
- Why did Americans move to the suburbs?
- What was the baby boom?
- Describe the Yalta Conference.
- Why did the US and USSR dislike each other?
- Describe the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the United Nations.
- What were the Nuremburg Trials and the Berlin Airlift?
- What is containment, Truman Doctrine, and Marshall Plan?
- What was the National Security Act (1947)?
- Why did the US join NATO?
- Describe what happens to Japan and China after WWII.
- What was the Smith Act and the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
- Describe the split in the Democratic Party in 1948.
- What was Truman’s Fair Deal? What were the success of the Fair Deal?
- What were the causes and effects of the Korean War?
Chapter 37 Questions
- Describe American industry in the 1950s.
- Who is Betty Friedan?
- Describe American consumer culture in the 1950s.
- Describe the election of 1952.
- Describe the end of the Korean War.
- What were the causes and effects of McCarthyism?
- Describe the lives of African-Americans in the North and South.
- Significance of Rosa Parks.
- What was Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and what happened in Little Rock, Arkansas?
- What role did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee play in the Civil Rights Movement?
- What were some of President Eisenhower’s goals at home?
- Describe President Eisenhower’s foreign policy.
- What happened in Vietnam after WWII?
- What was the Suez Crisis (1956)?
- What is the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
- Describe the election of 1956. What significant scientific and educational advancements were made in the 1950s?
- What were the causes and effects of the Cuban Revolution in 1959?
- Describe the election of 1960.
- What was President Eisenhower’s legacy?
- What contributions did writers, poets, playwrights, African-Americans, southerners, and Jews make to the literary world?
Chapter 38 Discussion Questions
- Describe President Kennedy.
- What was Kennedy’s New Frontier?
- Describe Kennedy’s foreign policy.
- What was flexible response?
- What happened in Vietnam?
- Describe the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Describe the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960’s.
- Describe Johnson’s presidency.
- Describe the election of 1964.
- Describe the Great Society.
- Describe Freedom Summer (1964) and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Describe Black Power.
- Describe the Cold War in Latin American and Vietnam.
- What was the American attitude towards Vietnam?
- How did the Vietnam War topple President Johnson?
- Describe the Presidential Election of 1968.
- What is President Johnson’s legacy?
- Describe the cultural upheaval of the 1960’s.
Chapter 39 Discussion Questions
- Define stagflation. What were the sources of stagflation?
- What was Vietnamization and the Silent Majority?
- What were the causes and effects of the bombing of Cambodia?
- What was détente?
- What were the most significant ruling of the Warren Court?
- What programs did President Nixon implement at home?
- How did Nixon help minorities and women?
- How did Nixon help the environment? What was Nixon’s southern strategy?
- Describe the election of 1972.
- What was the War Powers Act of 1973?
- What were the causes and effects of the Oil Embargo?
- What was the Watergate Scandal (1972)?
- What were the Helsinki Accords?
- Describe the end of the Vietnam War.
- What were some legal victories and defeats for women in the 1970s?
- Significance of Milliken v. Bradley (1974), Bakke v. University of California (1978) and US v. Wheeler (1978.)
- Describe the election of 1976.
- Describe foreign policy during President Carter’s administration.
- What were the economic and energy problems of the 1970s?
- What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Chapter 40 Discussion Questions
- Describe the election of 1980. What was Reagan’s platform?
- What was Reagan’s philosophy about government? What changes did Reagan implement as president?
- Describe Reagan’s plan for the economy.
- How did Reagan renew the Cold War?
- Describe US intervention in Lebanon and Nicaragua?
- Describe the election of 1984?
- What changes did the new Chairman of the USSR Gorbachev implement in 1985?
- What was the Iran-Contra affair?
- What was Reagan’s economic legacy?
- Describe the Moral Majority.
- What is the significance of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)?
- Describe the election of 1988.
- Describe President Bush?
- How did the Cold War end?
- What were the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War?
- Describe Bush’s policies on the home front.
Chapter 41 Discussion Questions
- Describe the election of 1992.
- What domestic successes and failures did Clinton have?
- Describe the midterm elections of 1994.
- Describe Clinton’s second term.
- Describe US foreign relations in Africa, Haiti, and China.
- Describe US foreign relations in Serbia and Israel.
- What were the causes and outcomes of Clinton’s impeachment trial?
- What was Clinton’s legacy?
- Describe the election of 2000.
- Why was the election of 2000 controversial?
- What policies did Bush support and oppose?
- Who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks? Why?
- What is asymmetrical warfare and the Patriot Act?
- Describe the war against Iraq.
- Describe the occupation of Iraq.
- What conflicts divided Americans?
- Describe the election of 2004.
