Spring 2006
History 1378
Study Guide for Examination 1
Preparing for the Exam
Each exam includes multiple choice, identification, and essay questions based on the lectures and the assigned readings. To help you prepare for the exams, a study guide is attached to this syllabus. Note: You are responsible for the material presented in the lectures and readings, whether or not it is covered in the study guide.
Identification:
- philosophies: Laissez Faire, Populism, Progressivism
- economics: cartel or pool, trust, holding company, maldistribution of wealth
- immigration: new immigrants, birds of passage
- labor: Knights of Labor, AFL, Pullman
- diplomacy: DeLome letter, battleship Maine, Open Door policy
- Progressivism: muckrakers, anti-trust, regulatory commissions
- World War I: Zimmermann telegraph, Lusitania, Espionage and Sabotage Acts, 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Red Scare
- 1920s: Prohibition, Scopes Trial, Sacco and Vanzetti case, KKK
- 1930s: RFC, NRA, AAA, WPA, CCC, Bonus Army, 100 Days, Brain Trust, National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act, Court Packing, Keynesian Economics
Individuals:
- William Jennings Bryan
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Huey Long
- Charles Coughlin
- Dr. Frances Townsend
Major issues raised by the lectures and reading:
1. How did businessmen respond to economic instability during the late 19th century?
2. What problems did American farmers face after the Civil War? What did farmers see as the primary sources of their difficulties?
3. Who were the candidates and what were the issues in the Presidential campaign of 1896?
4. In what ways did race relations worsen during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? In what ways was the growth of segregation linked to Populism?
5. What factors pushed the U.S. to participate in international imperialism? What kind of foreign policy did Alfred Thayer Mahan support?
6. Discuss the causes of the Spanish-American War. What was U.S. policy toward Cuba and other Spanish territories after the end of the fighting?
7. How can you account for the rise of the Progressive movement? What solutions did progressives offer to the ills of modern society?
8. Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany in 1917? In what ways did the war endanger civil liberties? Identify the Red Scare.
9. Offer examples of ruralurban conflict, racial antagonism, and nativism during the 1920s.
10. Why did the stock market boom and then crash. Describe why the prosperity of the 1920s was in certain respects an illusion.
11. Discuss Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression. Describe the expansion of federal power brought about by Roosevelt's New Deal.
Questions based on Huck’s Raft:
Describe:
a) the characteristics of children’s literature changed in the late 19th and early 20th century and explain why there was such an outpouring of children’s literature;
b) how scientific understanding of childhood changed duirng the late 19th century;
c) how attitudes toward childrearing shifted from the late 19th century to the 1930s;
d) the various ways that adults from the late 19th century to the 1930s tried to shape and reassert control over the lives of the young.
Describe:
a) what life was like for turn-of-the-20th century immigrant children;
b) how the lives of urban middle-class children changed during the first 30 years of the 20th century; and
c) the impact of the Great Depression on the lives of the young.
