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Midterm #2/

I. Matching (30 pts.): Your exam will have 30 Matching, Short Answer, or Fill-in questions, based on Class Material and the reading of your text.

As on the last exam--All people, issues, and events emphaisized in class.

II. PTWs, Short Essay Question (20)

Use Study Questions, to end of Book.

III. Two Essays

A.

Essay #1 will be ONE of the following:

1. Do you find real changes in the ways in which Americans lived in the 1920s, compared to the 1870s and 1880s? Is life more "modern," and if so, what does this mean? Make an argument and support it with significant examples of changes or continuities in the lives of Americans in these years.

2. (25 pts) Identify 5 events, people, etc. critical to the development of U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s (1945 to 1956) with a brief timeline. In what (three) ways did U.S. foreign policy in these years affect the American economy?

3. (25 pts) Identify 5 elements essential to fifties culture. Which of these do you find to be the most significant in defining American society in the 1950s and why?

4. (25 pts) What do you find are the THREE MOST SIGNIFICANT ways in which the American economy changed in the years between 1929 and the 1990s? Of these three changes, which do you find most important and why?

B.

Essay #2 will be ONE of the following:

4. (25 pts) Identify five 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?

5. (25 pts) Identify 5 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?

6. (25 pts) What do you find are the THREE MOST SIGNIFICANT ways in which American society changed in the years between 1945 and the 1990s? Of these three changes, which do you find the most important and why?

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Midterm #1/

There will be three parts to the exam--Matching, Identification, and an Essay Question.

I. Matching (20 pts.): Your exam will have 20 Matching, Short Answer, or Fill-in questions, based on Class Material and the reading of your text. Study over your class notes for this section.

(Examples of Questions)

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

II. Short AnswerIdentification tba (10 pts.--similar to the quiz)

1-Parting the Water Reading--See Study Questions; You should read up through Chapter 12, to 489 (I have pp. 489 on the schedule, but its really 491--just finish the chapter).

III. Essays (50 pts.) You will be asked to answer TWO of the following questions--one from each section. Prepare them all, put togeher outlines, and you will be ready!

A.

1-What was the impact of Westward Expansion on national unity? Ecplain your reasoning and support your argument with evidence.

2-How was the economy transformed in the Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century, in the years after the American Civil War?

3-In what ways did Americans respond to the new industrial order?

B.

1. How did changes in American "public space" have an impact on the United States between 1877 and 1920, from the Gilded Age to WWI?

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

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Midterm #2/

I. Matching (30 pts.): Your exam will have 30 Matching, Short Answer, or Fill-in questions, based on Class Material and the reading of your text.

As on the last exam--All people, issues, and events emphaisized in class.

II. PTWs, Short Essay Question (20)

Use Study Questions, to end of Book.

III. Two Essays

A.

Essay #1 will be ONE of the following:

1. Do you find real changes in the ways in which Americans lived in the 1920s, compared to the 1870s and 1880s? Is life more "modern," and if so, what does this mean? Make an argument and support it with significant examples of changes or continuities in the lives of Americans in these years.

2. (25 pts) Identify 5 events, people, etc. critical to the development of U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s (1945 to 1956) with a brief timeline. In what (three) ways did U.S. foreign policy in these years affect the American economy?

3. (25 pts) Identify 5 elements essential to fifties culture. Which of these do you find to be the most significant in defining American society in the 1950s and why?

4. (25 pts) What do you find are the THREE MOST SIGNIFICANT ways in which the American economy changed in the years between 1929 and the 1990s? Of these three changes, which do you find most important and why?

B.

Essay #2 will be ONE of the following:

4. (25 pts) Identify five 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?

5. (25 pts) Identify 5 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?

6. (25 pts) What do you find are the THREE MOST SIGNIFICANT ways in which American society changed in the years between 1945 and the 1990s? Of these three changes, which do you find the most important and why?