Name: US Studies Midterm Study

Guide
Directions: This is the BASIC information that you need to understand for this quarter’s midterm.
Fill out this worksheet to help you be successful on the test. It will be collected THE DAY OF THE
TEST.

Part 1—Economics
Define these economic systems:
1. Command:

2. Mixed:

3. Market:

Part 2—Government Systems

Define these governmental systems:
1. Theocracy:

2. Dictatorship:

Part 3—History
Answer these questions:
1. What is the connection between the Bessemer Process and the increase in the population
of most American cities in the late 19th century?

2. What else caused American cities to boom at this time?

3. What was the reaction of Native Americans when the American government encouraged
them to abandon their language?

4. Why did the American government seek to displace Native American tribes?

5. What changes did labor unions seek on behalf of American workers in the late 19th
century?

6. What PUSHED and PULLED immigrant groups to the United States during the Industrial
Revolution?

7. Why did professional sports, theaters, and amusement parks become popular by 1890?
8. How did the telephone and telegraph change America?

9. The AFL focused their unionizing at what level?

10.What ended the Pullman Strike?

11.What gave John D. Rockefeller so much economic power?

12.Why was child labor seen as “necessary”?

13.Define “Yellow Dog” contract.

14.What is important about the Battle of Wounded Knee?

15.Explain why farmers wanted money backed with silver (Free Silver).

16.Who were the Exodusters?

17.What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?

18.What was the connection between immigration and the power of political machines?

19.From a business’s standpoint, what is the purpose of a monopoly?

20.Why did most immigrants move to the cities?

21.Why did American factory workers put up with low wages and unsafe working conditions?