Quiz #1: Wednesday 2/16

Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 1-26 (Linked on Web Schedule Page)

Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic

Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemondade Springs, pp. 1-116 (Linked on Web Schedule Page)

Consider the Documents to be an "Identification." Use a 2-paragraph answer format. In the first paragraph, address the overall historical significance of the document. In the second, explain your reasoning with examples from the text--a short version of a document review.

Question #1: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

1-(Chapter 15: Reconstruction) What ONE significant aspect of Reconstruction do you find made it a success or a failure?

2-(Chapter 16: West) If you were a Lakota Sioux, would you rewrite Henretta's chapter on the West? Why or why not?

Question #2: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

3-(Chapter 17: Capital & Labor) In addition to the rich resources found within the expanding borders of the United States, how do you explain the country's rising Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the age of the "Great Deflation," when prices were dropping? Address two reasons for this phenomenal economic growth, then expand on the one you find most important.

4-(Chapter 18: Urbanization) In what ways did the structure of urban life represent the increasingly perceived problems of "progress and poverty"? Briefly explain the spatial growth of cities, relative to socio-economic class, and then expand on the overall impact of urbanization--how do you think this process affected American culture?

Question #3: (Documents 1-6) Again, for the documents, use a 2-paragraph answer format. In the first paragraph, address the overall historical significance of the document. In the second, explain your reasoning.

Quiz #2: Wednesday 3/2

Caro, Power Broker, pp. 1-112 (Linked on Moodle)

Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic

Docs #3, #4, #5, #6#7, #8, #9, #19, #11, #12, #13, #14 (Alger, Carnegie, George, Twain, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, TR, Anti-Imperialists, Kipling, Columbiian Exposition)

Question #1: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

1-(Chapter 19-Politics in Age of Enterprise, 1877-1896) How do you characterize the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans of different regions at this time (South, West, Midwest-East)?

2-(Chapter 20-The Progressive Era, 1900-1914) Who are the progressives and what is their reform agenda? What is their impact, do you think, on the federal government?

Question #2: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

3-(Chapter 21-An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914) How do you characterize the developing American foreign policies? Discuss three significant aspects of American foreign policy from these years.

4-(Chapter 22-War and the American State, 1914-1920) How does WWI affect the United States federal governement? Explain with 3 significant examples.

Question #3: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

3-Document #7: What are the goals and concerns of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877?

4-Document #8: What are the goals and concerns of James Garfield in 1881?

5-Document #9: What are the goals and concerns of Grover Cleveland in 1885?

6-Document #10: What are the goals and concerns of Benjamin Harrison in 1889?

7-Document #11: What are the goals and concerns of Teddy Roosevelt in 1905?

8-Document #12: What are the goals and concerns of the Anti-Imperialist League in 1899?

9-Document #13: What was the "white man's burden" described by Rudyard Kipling in his poem of 1899?

10-Document #14: What do you think the World Columbian Exposition revealed about the nature concerns of Americans in 1893?

11-Document #15: What do you find is the chief significance of Wilson's Fourteen Points?

12-Document #16: Enjoy these photographs along with your reading, there will be no question about them.

13-Document #17: Imagine living in this tenement and describe the living conditions for many immigrant workers at the turn of the century.

(MT #1: Caro, pp. 113-206; Docs #15, #16, #17, #18--Wilson, WWI Image Archive, Tenement Museum, Museum of American Finance)

Quiz #3: Wednesday 2/16

Turkel, Hard Times (Linked on Web Schedule Page)

Wilkerson, Warmth of Another Sun, pp.

Docs

Question #1: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

1-(Chapter 24-Redefining Liberalism, The New Deal): What do you think is the most significant way in which the New Deal redefines the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans?

Question #2: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

2-(Chapter 25-The World at War, 1939-1945) In what ways does WWII change American society. Explain one significant impact of WWII on American society, and the reasons for its importance.

Question #3: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

3-Document #19: What are the goals and concerns of FDR in 1933?

4-Document #20: Discuss either the Great Depression or WWII as seen in these photographs--what do you learn about the texture of American lives from these photographs. Explain.

5-Document #21: Find one favorite example from these WPA posters--to what extent do you think it had an impact on Americans as and educational tool? As government propaganda?

6-Document #22: What is your reaction to the War of the Worlds? What was the reaction of Americans in 1938 and why?

7-Document #23: Choose one photograph or one poster from the WWII collections--why do you find it significant, and what does the photo/ poster reveal about the impact of the WWII on the U.S.?

Quiz #4: Chapters 26, 27, 28, 29 & Documents 20-31 (+Reader Points)

Question #1: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

1-(Chapter 26- Cold WarAmerica): What was the Cold War and what events most defined it?

2-(Chapter 27-Age of Affluence): Why was the period from 1945-1960 an "Age of Affluence"? What was the "other" America?

Question #2: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

3-(Chapter 28- Liberal Consesnus): What are the accomplishments of liberal reform? The limits?

4-(Chapter 29-Conservative America): Why do you think, based on the reading, that the U.S. moves to the right? What do you think is the most significant reason for this?

Question #3: You will be given ONE of the following questions to answer as instructed above, in a 2-paragraph format.

5-Doc 28, Watergate: Listen to the "smoking gun" episode--why is this called the "smoking gun"? Do these tapes surprise you? No? Why or why not?

6-Doc 29, Counterculture: Watch some of these films--attach 3 adjectives to your viewing of counterculture life, how do you describe these people? Why do you think youth rebel?

7-Doc 30, The Pill: Listen to the "before" and "after" interviews. Based on these comments, what do you find was the impact of The Pill?

8-Doc 31, "Ready for Marriage": What does this film reveal about American culture in the 1950s? Explain.

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Quiz #2/ Wednesday

Question #1: Robert Caro, Power Broker pp. 1-206

1-Introduction: Who was Robert Moses?

2-In what ways does Caro tell us he was an idealist?

3-In what ways was Moses a reformer?

4-How do you think his early rise to power changes him, or not?

Question #2: Documents #1-#7, identify the document and its signficance:

1-"An Address to Loyal Citizens"

2-Navajo Treaty

3-Horatio Alger

4-Andrew Carnegie

5-Henry George

6-Samuel Clemens on the Good and Bad Little Boys

7-Rutherford B. Hayes

Question #3: Documents #7-#13, identify the document and its significance:

8-James Garfield

9-Grover Cleveland

10-Benjamin Harrison

11-TR

12-The Anti-Imperialist League

13-Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"

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Quiz #3/ Wednesday

Wilkerson on Warmth of Other Suns

Question #1 (Part One & Part Two, "Beginings"):

1. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster all left their respective homes in Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana between 1937 and 1953. These three were part of the "Great Migration" from the South to the North. What were their reasons for leaving, and what was it that Gladney, Starling, and Foster gave up by moving North? What conditions in the South, examples from the Misissippi, Florida, and Louisiana South, provided motivation for leaving?

2. Who was Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, and why did she decide to leave her mother and Mississippi?

3. Who was George Swanson Starling, and why did he decide to leave Florida?

4. Who was Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, and why did he decide to leave Louisiana?

Question #2 (Part Three and Part Four, "Exodus" and "Kinder Mistress"):

1. Construct THREE ADJECTIVES to describe Ida Mae's experiences leaving the South and adapting to the North.

2. Construct THREE ADJECTIVES to describe George Starling's experiences leaving the South and adapting to the North.

3. Construct THREE ADJECTIVES to describe Robert Foster's experiences leaving the South and adapting to the North.

Question #3 (Part Five and Epilogue, "Aftermath" and Methodology):

1. Ida Mae: What was gained and lost?

2. George Starling: What was gained and lost?

3. Robert Foster: What was gained and lost?

4. What do the experiences of these three reveal about the social and economic changes or continuities of the WWII era? __________________________________________________________________________

Quiz #4/ Monday, 9 May

Question #1 ("Year of the Pig" & Antonio Interview):

Watch the first three Youtube parts of "Year of the Pig"--what is this film about? What was the story that Antonio watned to tell?

Question #2 ("Are You Ready for Marriage?" & The Pill Interviews)

Based on these two "documents," to whatt kinds of social changes does the pill contribute?

Question #3 (Watergate: Smoking Gun and Interviews with Ronald Reagan; Reaganomics/ Time Magazine 1981; )

What was the significance of the "smoking gun" recording of Nixon?

What was Ronald Reagan's economic plan?