DEUS 17B Final Exam Study Guide
Reconstruction & Gilded Age
● Freedmen’s Bureau — Federal agency helping formerly enslaved people after the Civil
War.
● Sharecropping — Farmers rented land and paid with crops, often leading to debt.
● Black Codes — Southern laws restricting African Americans’ rights.
● 13th Amendment — Ended slavery.
● 14th Amendment — Granted citizenship and equal protection.
● 15th Amendment — Protected Black male voting rights.
● Ku Klux Klan — White supremacist terrorist group.
● Bargain of 1877 — Ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South.
● Trusts — Large monopolistic business combinations.
● Vertical Integration — Company controls all production steps.
● Horizontal Expansion — Company buys competitors.
● Robber Barons — Industrial leaders accused of exploiting workers.
● Dawes Act — Broke Native tribal lands into private farms.
● Wounded Knee Massacre — U.S. Army massacre of Lakota Sioux in 1890.
● The Gilded Age — Era of wealth inequality and corruption.
● Gold Standard — Currency backed by gold.
● Sherman Antitrust Act — Law against monopolies.
● Social Darwinism — Belief that success came from natural superiority.
● Great Railroad Strike — Major 1877 labor strike.
● Knights of Labor — Large early labor union.
● Social Gospel — Religious movement for social reform.
● Haymarket Affair — Violent labor protest linked to anarchists.
● Populists — Political movement for farmers/workers.
● Coxey’s Army — Protest march of unemployed workers.
● Grandfather Clause — Voting law favoring whites.
● Disenfranchisement — Taking away voting rights.
● Plessy v. Ferguson — Legalized segregation.
● “Separate but equal” — Doctrine supporting segregation.
● Lynching — Mob killings mainly targeting African Americans.
● Lost Cause — Southern myth glorifying the Confederacy.
● Chinese Exclusion Act — Banned Chinese immigration.
● American Federation of Labor (AFL) — Union for skilled workers.
Progressive Era & Imperialism
● Yellow Press — Sensationalized newspapers.
● USS Maine — Ship explosion leading to Spanish-American War.
● Progressivism — Reform movement against corruption.
● Muckraking — Journalism exposing problems.
, ● Ellis Island — Immigration station in New York.
● Fordism — Assembly-line production system.
● American Standard of Living — Rise in consumer comfort and income.
● Scientific Management — Efficiency methods by Frederick Taylor.
● Socialist Party — Political party favoring economic equality.
● Collective Bargaining — Workers negotiating with employers.
● Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) — Radical labor union.
● New Feminism — Push for women’s independence and equality.
● Birth Control Movement — Campaign for contraception access.
● 17th Amendment — Direct election of senators.
● Settlement House — Centers helping immigrants and poor families.
● Pure Food and Drug Act — Regulated food and medicine safety.
● Conservation Movement — Protection of natural resources.
● 16th Amendment — Federal income tax.
● Progressive Party — Theodore Roosevelt’s reform party.
● Panama Canal Zone — U.S.-controlled canal area in Panama.
● Roosevelt Corollary — Expanded U.S. intervention in Latin America.
● Dollar Diplomacy — Using investments to influence countries.
● Moral Imperialism — Wilson’s foreign policy promoting democracy.
● Lusitania — British ship sunk by Germany.
● Zimmermann Telegram — German message urging Mexico to attack the U.S.
● Fourteen Points — Wilson’s WWI peace plan.
● Selective Service Act — Military draft law.
● War Industries Board — Coordinated wartime production.
● 18th Amendment — Prohibition of alcohol.
● Espionage Act — Punished interference with war effort.
● Sedition Act — Punished anti-government speech.
● NAACP — Civil rights organization founded in 1909.
● Great Migration — Movement of African Americans northward.
● Tulsa Riot — Destruction of prosperous Black community in Tulsa.
● Red Scare of 1919–1920 — Fear of communism and radicals.
● League of Nations — International peace organization after WWI.
● Equal Rights Amendment — Proposed equal rights regardless of sex.
● Flappers — Young women challenging traditional norms.
● ACLU — Organization protecting civil liberties.
● Schenck v. United States — Limited speech during wartime.
● Fundamentalism — Strict religious belief in literal Bible truth.
● Scopes Trial — Court case over teaching evolution.
● New Negro — Idea of assertive Black cultural identity.
● Harlem Renaissance — Black artistic and cultural movement.
Great Depression & New Deal
● Great Depression — Severe economic crisis beginning in 1929.
● Stock Market Crash — Collapse of stock prices in 1929.
● Smoot-Hawley Tariff — High tariff worsening global trade.
● New Deal — FDR’s programs to fight the Depression.
● Emergency Banking Act — Stabilized banks after crash.
Reconstruction & Gilded Age
● Freedmen’s Bureau — Federal agency helping formerly enslaved people after the Civil
War.
● Sharecropping — Farmers rented land and paid with crops, often leading to debt.
● Black Codes — Southern laws restricting African Americans’ rights.
● 13th Amendment — Ended slavery.
● 14th Amendment — Granted citizenship and equal protection.
● 15th Amendment — Protected Black male voting rights.
● Ku Klux Klan — White supremacist terrorist group.
● Bargain of 1877 — Ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South.
● Trusts — Large monopolistic business combinations.
● Vertical Integration — Company controls all production steps.
● Horizontal Expansion — Company buys competitors.
● Robber Barons — Industrial leaders accused of exploiting workers.
● Dawes Act — Broke Native tribal lands into private farms.
● Wounded Knee Massacre — U.S. Army massacre of Lakota Sioux in 1890.
● The Gilded Age — Era of wealth inequality and corruption.
● Gold Standard — Currency backed by gold.
● Sherman Antitrust Act — Law against monopolies.
● Social Darwinism — Belief that success came from natural superiority.
● Great Railroad Strike — Major 1877 labor strike.
● Knights of Labor — Large early labor union.
● Social Gospel — Religious movement for social reform.
● Haymarket Affair — Violent labor protest linked to anarchists.
● Populists — Political movement for farmers/workers.
● Coxey’s Army — Protest march of unemployed workers.
● Grandfather Clause — Voting law favoring whites.
● Disenfranchisement — Taking away voting rights.
● Plessy v. Ferguson — Legalized segregation.
● “Separate but equal” — Doctrine supporting segregation.
● Lynching — Mob killings mainly targeting African Americans.
● Lost Cause — Southern myth glorifying the Confederacy.
● Chinese Exclusion Act — Banned Chinese immigration.
● American Federation of Labor (AFL) — Union for skilled workers.
Progressive Era & Imperialism
● Yellow Press — Sensationalized newspapers.
● USS Maine — Ship explosion leading to Spanish-American War.
● Progressivism — Reform movement against corruption.
● Muckraking — Journalism exposing problems.
, ● Ellis Island — Immigration station in New York.
● Fordism — Assembly-line production system.
● American Standard of Living — Rise in consumer comfort and income.
● Scientific Management — Efficiency methods by Frederick Taylor.
● Socialist Party — Political party favoring economic equality.
● Collective Bargaining — Workers negotiating with employers.
● Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) — Radical labor union.
● New Feminism — Push for women’s independence and equality.
● Birth Control Movement — Campaign for contraception access.
● 17th Amendment — Direct election of senators.
● Settlement House — Centers helping immigrants and poor families.
● Pure Food and Drug Act — Regulated food and medicine safety.
● Conservation Movement — Protection of natural resources.
● 16th Amendment — Federal income tax.
● Progressive Party — Theodore Roosevelt’s reform party.
● Panama Canal Zone — U.S.-controlled canal area in Panama.
● Roosevelt Corollary — Expanded U.S. intervention in Latin America.
● Dollar Diplomacy — Using investments to influence countries.
● Moral Imperialism — Wilson’s foreign policy promoting democracy.
● Lusitania — British ship sunk by Germany.
● Zimmermann Telegram — German message urging Mexico to attack the U.S.
● Fourteen Points — Wilson’s WWI peace plan.
● Selective Service Act — Military draft law.
● War Industries Board — Coordinated wartime production.
● 18th Amendment — Prohibition of alcohol.
● Espionage Act — Punished interference with war effort.
● Sedition Act — Punished anti-government speech.
● NAACP — Civil rights organization founded in 1909.
● Great Migration — Movement of African Americans northward.
● Tulsa Riot — Destruction of prosperous Black community in Tulsa.
● Red Scare of 1919–1920 — Fear of communism and radicals.
● League of Nations — International peace organization after WWI.
● Equal Rights Amendment — Proposed equal rights regardless of sex.
● Flappers — Young women challenging traditional norms.
● ACLU — Organization protecting civil liberties.
● Schenck v. United States — Limited speech during wartime.
● Fundamentalism — Strict religious belief in literal Bible truth.
● Scopes Trial — Court case over teaching evolution.
● New Negro — Idea of assertive Black cultural identity.
● Harlem Renaissance — Black artistic and cultural movement.
Great Depression & New Deal
● Great Depression — Severe economic crisis beginning in 1929.
● Stock Market Crash — Collapse of stock prices in 1929.
● Smoot-Hawley Tariff — High tariff worsening global trade.
● New Deal — FDR’s programs to fight the Depression.
● Emergency Banking Act — Stabilized banks after crash.
