EXAM #2

There will be two parts to the exam--Matching and two Essay Questions.

I. Matching (50 pts.): Your exam will have 50 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. (Four Sections--the first two with 15 matching questions each, and the next two with 10 matching questions each) --As in the first exam. Study over your class notes, then make a list of possible terms--issues, people, and events.

II. Two Essays (70 pts/ 35 pts each) --You will have TWO essay questions--one from Section A, and one from Section B, listed below.

Question A/ I will ask you ONE of the following questions:

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 economy. 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?

3. What SIX SOCIAL ASPECTS of society do you find to be the most defining of American life in the 1950s and why?

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?

Question B/ I will ask you ONE of the following questions:

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In the twentieth century, especially from the time of George Creel and War ot 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? Do you think the mass media has caused or reflected social and political changes in the United States? Both?

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EXAM #1

There will be two parts to the exam--Matching and two Essay Questions.

I. Matching (50 pts.): Your exam will have 50 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. (Four Sections--the first two with 15 matching questions each, and the next two with 10 matching questions each)

(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. Two Essays (70 pts/ 35 pts each) --You will have one of the following questions to answer for each section--one from A, and one from B.

A.

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?

B.

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

5. Do you find that TR's role as president was more significant than those who came before, and if so, why? To what extent did he change the role of the presidency, or to what extent do you think it was transformed by historical events?

6. Define "modern." To what extent had Americans become "modern" by the 1920s, and to what extent did Americans develop an American identity (rather than a regional one)?