Review for first semester final

Geography

Central and Latin America Europe South America 50 States Oceans and Continents

Specific countries to know

Germany Cuba Brazil Great Britain

Oceans and seas

Mediterranean Sea Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Panama Canal

Civil war

Emancipation Proclamation North and South (Yankees and

Confederates) Abraham Lincoln President 600, 000 lives lost 54th regiment War was over state’s rights

Reconstruction

*Jim Crow laws *Why was this era called

Reconstruction? Amendments 13, 14, 15th

*13th – abolished slavery *14th – granted citizenship for all

people born in the U.S. *15th- A.A. right to vote

Wild West

Boom towns vs ghost towns The expansion of mining led to what? ---more

states added Homestead Act- gave 160 acres to settlers

who wanted to work on it Native American struggles Farming struggles Transcontinental Railroad

Union Pacific: Omaha, NE to Promontory Summit, UT Central Pacific: Sacramento, CA to Promontory, UT Supplies to the West, ranch/farm products to East Communications needed- telegraph along tracks Increased lumber and steel demand

Industrialization

Robber baron vs captains of industry

Inventions…list Rockefeller, Carnegie, Chase,

Pullman, Westinghouse, Edison, Assembly line Worker’s rights- why labor

unions?

Immigration

Two processing centers in the U.S Millions of people came here from where? Yellow Journalism- Muckrakers Population shift----rural to urban Caused city problems…what were they? Skyscrapers/street cars…transportation "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Who wrote it?

Urbanization/Progressive era

Libraries were built- reading was predominant Entertainment Corruption in government

Elected officials not serving ALL public’s needs Ex: William “Boss” Tweed Spoils System- Pendelton Civil Service Act

Revealing corruption- forcing change Muckrakers

Environmental destruction/Teddy Roosevelt Federal Reserve Act

Imperialism

Purchase of Alaska “Seward’s Folly” Purchase of Hawaii Isolationism/Expansionism Yellow Journalism Spanish American War- Cuba-Philippines-

USS Maine Roosevelt Corollary

WWI

First show to start the war- Franz Ferdinand M.A.I.N Propaganda Zimmerman telegram Allied/Central powers Red Scare- Bolshevik revolution Trench warfare- weapons Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Germany had to pay reparations

1920’s

Roaring Installment buying 18th amendment- prohibition 19th- women right to vote Red Scare #2 Changes for women