Midterm Exam #2 (200 Pts)

I. Matching (80 Pts)-Forty Matching Questions in the same format as the first exam, and as discussed in class.

II. Essays (120 points)--you will have two essays taken from the following Questions:

A-You will be asked ONE of the following (60 points):

1. On the Great Depression & New Deal: What were the phases of the New Deal, and to what extent do you think FDR's program had an impact on the root causes of the economic depression? Explain your reasoning.

2. Identify 8 events, people, etc. critical to the development of U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s (1945 to 1956) with a brief timeline. How do your points explain the significant goals of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to 1965? (List points at top but write this in essay form with a thesis and points of evidence)

3. What THREE SOCIAL ASPECTS of society do you find to be the most defining of American life in the 1950s and 1960s, and why? (again, use the essay form)

4. What were the key aspects of American economic growth between 1945 and 1965; who benifitted most, and which groups of people benifitted the least?

B-You will be aked ONE of the following (60 points):

5. Identify 5 events critical to the defining of a New Left (1960-1979) with a brief timeline. What do you find are the major roots of the New Left Movement that grows from the 1960s through the 1970s? (list events at the top, but write your answer in essay form)

6. Identify 3 elements essential to Boomer culture, the 1960s & 1970s. Which of these do you find to be the most significant in defining American society in the reform era and why? (write your answer in essay form)

7. Identify 5 elements essential to the rise of the New Right; what do you find are the most signficant reasons for the American shift to the right between 1979 and the early 1990s?

8. In the twentieth century, especially from the time of George Creel and War to the Worlds through the Civil Rights Era, the New Left, and the New Right, to what extent do you find mass media has played a significant role in American social movements? Do you think the mass media has caused or reflected social and political changes in the United States? Both? Why or why not, explain.

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Midterm Exam #1 (200 Pts)

I. Matching (80 Pts)-Forty Matching Questions

1-15 Matching Questions-Examples, these are based on Class Material and the reading of your text. Study over your class notes for this section.

Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment                               ______Men paid higher wages in order to
                                                                                                                        support their families
Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment                                 ______Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie                                                               ______activism based on individual rights
Gustavus F. Swift                                                               ______activism on behalf of the family
John D. Rockefeller                                                           ______abolished Slavery
Family Wage                                                                     ______ guaranteed freed men right to vote
National American Women Suffrage Association             ______Edgar Thompson Works
Women's Christian Temperance Union                             ______ vertical integration of meat-packing

2-15 Matching Questions

3-10 Matching Questions

II. Essay Questions (120 Pts): You will have TWO of the following Essay Questions to answer, each worth 60 Points. These will be up by next week--what questions would you include?

A Your FIRST ESSAY will be one of the following:

1-To what extent do you think the South shared in the economic progress of the late nineteenth century? Why or why not?

2-Historian Frederick Jackson Turner wrote, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." Critique this statement--what aspects of it are true, do you think, what aspects of it are not? To what extent do you think the West was responsible for economic, social, or political developments of the gilded and progressive eras?

3-What was the role of the East--and especially cities such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, in the defining of the political economy between 1870 and 1912?

4-How did people respond to corporate industrialization?

B Your SECOND ESSAY wil be one of the following:

1. How did changes in American "public space" change between 1877 and 1920, from the Gilded Age to WWI?

2. Do you find that TR's role as president was more significant than those who came before, and if so, why? Did he change the role of the presidency?

3. What were progressive reforms, and to what extent do you think they were successful? What were their strengths and weaknesses?

4. To what extent did life in the 1920s replace regional cultures with a national culture and identity?

5. What does it mean to be "modern"? Define the important aspects of modern life.