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October 13, 2009 | Subject: History
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ID: Please use the following terms to prepare for the second hour exam. Remember that full credit for the I.D. comes from correctly describing the person or event (one third of the points awarded) and then giving the historical significance of that term (two thirds). You can expect to have eight terms to select from on the exam. There will be no “partial credit” for terms incorrectly identified.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
- Social (Gospel) Progressives
- National Progressives
- Corporate Liberal Progressives
- Jane Addams
- Settlement Houses
- Theodore Roosevelt
- 1901 Anthracite Coal Strike
- Food & Drug Act (1906)
- Woodrow Wilson
- Clayton Act (1914)
- Welfare Capitalism
- Imperialism
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Platt Amendment (1901)
- Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
- Nativism
- Immigration Restrictive Leagues
- Sacco & Venzetti
- “Jim Crow” Laws
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- W.E.B. DuBois
- NAACP (1910)
- High/Middle/Lowbrow Culture
- Central Park, NYC
- Coney Island
- Nickelodeons
- National Board of Review (1908)
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- AAA (1933)
- NIRA/NRA (1933)
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
- Wagner Act (1935)
- Social Security Act (1935)
- The “Good War”
- Fascism
- Adolf Hitler
- Lebensraum
- Anschluss
- Appeasement
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
- Blitzkrieg
- Lend Lease
- Atlantic Charter (1941)
- Battle of Britain
- Pearl Harbor (Dec., 1941)
- Casablanca (1942 film)
- Executive Order #8802 (1942)
- CORE
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Korematsu -v- U.S.
- Stalingrad (1943)
- D-Day (1944)
- Battle of Midway Islands (1942)
- Use of Atomic Weapons in WWII
Essay: The following are sample essay questions. For the second exam you will be asked to answer one of these questions (the wording may change, but only slightly). An acceptable “college-level” response will consider the entire question, providing specific examples to justify your responses. There will be no “partial credit” for essays that do not address the questions.
1. In class I argued that racism and imperialism were seen by many Nativists as logical, scientific, and “progressive” policies. (i) Briefly describe the rationale used by nativists to support this claim. (ii) Provide an example each for both racial and imperial policies pursued by the U.S. during the Progressive Era.
2. (i) Describe the goals and give specific examples of the three main types of Progressive reform groups, making sure to highlight how each was a unique interpretation of Progressivism. (ii) Which of the three, in your opinion, was the most successful during the era (be sure to justify your answer)? (iii) Looking at either Nativism, racism, or “imperialistic” U.S. foreign policy from 1880-1920, how was it possible for Americans to argue that these actions were as “progressive” as other reforms of the era?
3. (i) Using specific examples, show why the Great Depression was “great” and how it destroyed many Americans's faith in industrial-capitalism (at least as it existed in 1929) (ii) What were some key policies of the New Deal and how did theses policies address these doubts? (iii) What role did Franklin Roosevelt play in helping Americans cope with the Great Depression?
4. Modern popular culture reshaped the way Americans defined themselves. (i) What were high and low brow culture? (ii) Using specific examples, define how the four characteristics of middle brow culture, or “cheap amusements,” are different from the high/low culture that came before it? (iii) Give examples to show how middle brow culture changed the way Americans interacted with one another or how they better understood the modern world.
5. (I) World War II is often seen by historians as the most pivotal event in U.S. twentieth-century history. Why? (ii) Give at least two examples where the war fundamentally changed the country. (Do not focus simply on the defeat of the Nazis, Japanese, etc., as this is not relevant to the question.)
Dr. Blanke Disclaimer: All exam materials are taken from lectures and the assigned reading (not just online sources) and these vary over the semesters
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