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AMH 2010 Exam #3 Review
There will 50 multiple-choice questions on your third examination in this
course.
The questions will be based on the following terms, issues, and concepts:
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
19th Century Whig Party political philosophy
19th century Democratic Party political philosophy
Andrew Jackson
The tariff nullification crisis of 1828
The abolitionist movement and its early leaders
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Social reform movements of the Age of Jackson
Leaders of American slave rebellions
Differences separation the northern and southern states (sectionalism)
Southern social classes
Paternalism
Causes of the growth of the slave institution
Immigrants to the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century
Manifest Destiny
U.S. westward expansion and the reasons for its success
Texas war of independence and annexation by the U.S.
The Mexican War and the U.S. land annexations that followed it
Winfield Scott and the American seizure of Mexico City (1847)
The Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty and Stephen Douglas
The free labor ideology
The Compromise of 1850
Whig Party leaders
The causes of the break-up of the Whig Party
The Dred Scott decision
Antislavery arguments in the U.S. Congress
“Bleeding” Kansas
The Election of 1860
South Carolina and the secession movement in 1860
Crittenden Compromise
Lincoln and the rise of the Republican Party
Republican Party Coalitions
The southern secession movement
Union advantages in the Civil war
Southern disadvantages in the Civil War
Union and Confederate military strategies during the War
The rifle, military innovations, and their impact on war
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Election of 1864
West Point and its influence on the Civil War
William Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War battles (Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg)
AMH 2020 Examination #3 review topics
Your final exam in this course will consist of approximately 50 questions
based on the following terms and concepts:
1920s Republican politics
Prohibition
Marcus Garvey
Herbert Hoover
Sources of economic growth in 1920s America
The causes of the Great Depression
The Bonus Army
Keynesian economics and the New Deal
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and similar New Deal programs
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and the Social Security Act
The impact of the New Deal on government and society
The Wagner Act and labor unions
Causes of U.S. isolationism
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The U.S. war effort in Asia and Europe in WWII
Island Hopping and major battles of the Pacific war against Japan
The Home Front in WWII
D-Day
Truman and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The causes of economic growth after WWII
Issues dividing the Democratic New Deal political coalition
U.S. containment policy and the Domino Theory
Characteristics of the Cold War
Douglas McArthur and the Korean War
The Sputnik launch and its affect on America
McCarthyism
American economic growth in the 1950
Reasons for U.S. support of dictatorships
The civil rights movement and methods used to achieve successes
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Great Society programs
The Vietcong
The Tet offensive
Domestic opposition to the Vietnam War
The Feminist Movement
Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the fall of the U.S.S.R
The Reagan Revolution
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
The 2000 presidential election
9-11 and the U.S. government’s reaction to terrorism
POS 2041 Exam#3 review terms and concepts
There will be approximately 50 multiple-choice questions on your third
examination in this course. The exam date will be announced in class.
Majority and Minority leaders, Whips
Incumbency
Speaker of the House
Congressional Committees
Rules and Ways and Means Committees
Filibuster and cloture
Veto power and overriding a veto
Open and closed rules of debate
Congressional and judicial oversight
Logrolling
The functions of the Senate
The power to declare war
War Powers Resolution
Executive Agreements
Effects of 9/11 on government
Executive privilege
Roles of the President
The permanent campaign
Rallying effect
Supporters of the Republican Party
First ladies and politics
Executive Office of the President
National Security Council
Patronage
Civil Service Act of 1883
Department secretaries
Regulatory Agencies
PATRIOT Act provisions
Agencies and Bureaus of the Justice Department
Federal Reserve System
Revenue agencies
Deregulation, devolution, and privatization
Supreme Court size
Due process of law
Marbury v. Madison case
The common law
Miranda
Standing, Writ of Certiorari, and Habeas Corpus
Class action suit
Solicitor General
Dissents and concurrences
Judicial restraint/activism
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