420 Study Guide

At least one of the long essay questions will appear on the exam.  Below them are key terms.  You should be able to identify basic journalistic facts about each term (who, what, when, where) and explain their historical significance: how does this item help to explain a larger historical trend, idea, event? Or what part does it play in an important historical narrative? Most of the terms should be useful in writing about the longer essay prompts. 

Study questions for the longer essay

8-10: Rise of Industry

Taylorism

Efficiency

Productivity

Mechanization

Division of labor

Economies of scale

Mergers

Trusts

Managers

Limited liability

Stock

Stock exchange

Dividends

Capital

Profits

Capitalists

Robber Barons

Tariff

Invention factories

Wage labor

Contract freedom

Eight-hour day

Strikes

Competition

Consolidation

Real wages

Permanent working class (proletariat)

11: Industrial Labor

Great RR strike of 77

General Strike

8-hour day

Child labor

Mechanization

Knights of Labor

Industrial Unions

Pinkertons

Homestead

AF of L

Craft Union

Pullman strike

Eugene Debs

Injunction

Meatpacking Industry

Immigration

Urbanization

Melting Pot

Tammany Hall

Lochner v. NY

Police powers

Due process

Liberty of Contract

Judicial Review

12: The West: press the arrow to see the key terms for this unit. 

Gold and Silver rushes, 29

Bison herds, 29

Homestead Act, 31

Little Bighorn, 37

Transcontinental RR, 40

Dawes General Allotment Act, 44

Ghost Dance, 45

Wounded Knee, 47

Buffalo Bill, 49

Frontier thesis, 51

Frederick Jackson Turner, 51

100th Meridian

Rain Follows the plow

John Wesley Powell

Aquifers

13. Politics of the Gilded Age

Farmer's Alliance

Populist Party

Subtreasury system

Monetary policy

Hard money

Free sliver

Bimetallism

Inflation

Deflation

Tom Watson

Colored Farmers’ Alliance

Fusion

William Jennings Bryan

Eugene V. Debs

Socialist Party

Bourbons

Jim Crow

Lynching

Disfranchisement

Poll tax

Literacy tests

Ida B. Wells

Lost Cause

14. America in the world

Asian trade; Spheres of influence

Open door

Boxer Rebellion

Missionaries

Guano Island Act

Big five sugar

Mexican Revolution

Cuba

The Maine

Yellow journals

Splendid little war

Albert Beveridge

Battle of Manilla Bay

Phillipine Commissions

Emilio Aguinaldo

American Anti-Imperialist League

Theodore Roosevelt

San Juan Hill

Pearl Harbor

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Great White Fleet

Big stick diplomacy

Panama

Roosevelt Corollary

Guantanamo Bay

Dollar diplomacy

[Portsmouth Peace Treaty]

Teller Amendment

Platt Amendment

  15-19. The Progressive Era

Professionalism

Social Engineering

Muckrakers

City Manager

Robert La Follette

Referendum

Scientific Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Square Deal

Anthracite Coal Strike

Bull Moose Party

New Nationalism

New Freedom

Federal Reserve Act

Gabriel Kolko

Hyphenated Americans

Espionage Act

Neutrality

Lusitania

U-Boats

Zimmerman telegram

CPI

Liberty Loan

Armistice

14 Points

Peace Without Victory

League of Nations

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