US History Midterm

BLUE BOOK!!!

MID-TERM Study Guide

n “ --“ indicates themes from textbook reading

n “$$” indicates themes from supplemental readings such as Hollitz, articles, or web

n “ **” indicates themes from lectures/discussions

FORMAT:

n Essay questions (1 out of 5)

n Choice of which questions to answer

n Graded on:

--Accuracy of content

--Ability to use specific details to support points

--Directly answering the question as fully as possible

--Demonstration of an understanding of the ideas as well as details

--OVERALL: the level of understanding of the impact of the Economic Revolution in shaping modern American life, inc. politics, economy, society, culture, and peoples

n What will help you to succeed in writing the essays:

--Be specific in drawing from the readings, lectures, and discussions whenever possible. Examples are good!

--Explaining your statements and points as fully as possible. Don’t assume I know what you are talking about already. Write as if I have no idea of the subject and that I am dependent on what you are telling me in order to pass an exam myself!

--Try to write as clearly and logically as possible but don’t sweat the grammar too much for an in-class piece.

OVERALL THEME: Origins, scope, impact, outcome of the Economic Revolution, from 1870s through the 1930s: economics, politics, society, & culture

CHAP. 17: The Development of the West

--the impact of peoples on the West and each other

--Native Americans and federal Indian policy—Reservation Acts, Dawes Allotment, Humanitarian Policies (Hollitz)

**Farming the Great Plains-reaction to farmers

**/$$Reservation policy v. Dawes Act/Indian education as federal Indian policy

$$ Farmers protest/”Wizard of Oz” and Populism

CHAP. 18: The Machine Age

--technological innovations of the industrial revolution and their impact

--/$$human responses to the industrial revolution: how experienced/reaction

--/$$ Impact of industrial revolution in life in America

**Overview of the Economic Revolution: what was it and what did it do: Boost urbanization…

CHAP. 19: The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life

--elements of urbanization during the industrial revolution

--immigration, inc., its sources, causes, and impact in the US—what was urban life like

--Cultural products of the new cities

CHAP. 20: Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

--the nature of party politics and legislation in the Gilded Age-what were politics before Industrial Rev.?

--efforts to reform Gilded Age politics, inc. exclusionary efforts: corruption in political system—literacy tests to keep immigrants out from politics

--/$$ Agrarian unrest and politics, and Wizard of Oz as metaphor: farmers protest and populism

--political impact of Depression of 1890s: transition from old politics to issue-oriented politics

**what happened to politics as a result of the Economic Revolution?

**Southern Race Relations: disfranchisement, segregation, lynching, and black responses to Jim Crow

CHAP. 21: The Progressive Era

--defining and describing the many types of progressivism

--progressivism as a response to the industrial revolution

--political impact of Progressivism

CHAP. 22: The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

--reasons and motivations for American imperialism

--types of American imperialism and in various regions

--causes and outcome of the Spanish-American War

**Problems of Empire

$$Imperialism as an expression of distressed masculinity (Hollitz-quiz)

CHAP. 23: Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

--Reasons for American involvement in World War One

--Impact of American involvement on home front

--Peace settlement of World War One

**European Origins of World War One

CHAP. 24: The New Era, 1920-29

--economic, political, social, and cultural developments of the 1920s

--positives and negatives of the 1920s

--How the 1920s ended

**Ku Klux Klan as a reflection of the themes of the 1920s

$$ Advertising in the 1920s—consumer revolution

$$ Tulsa riot of 1921: a reflection of the 1920s and impact of the economic revolution

CHAP. 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941

--Causes of the Great Depression

--/$$Problems/Impact of the Great Depression

--Presidential responses to the GD, i.e., Hoover v. Roosevelt

--New Deal’s origins, intent, program diversity, phases, and impact

--New Deal’s successes, failures, and politics

**/$$ Experiencing the Great Depression: white men, women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, families, children (Farm Security photos)

**Impact and limits of the New Deal: Origins? Intent? Phases? Successes and Failures

**Ordinary citizens and the New Deal

>Surviving the Dust Bowl (film): American Sahara…environment has bigger impact than what people anticipated. Incidentally, people got kicked off land with New Deal acts.

CHAP. 26: Peacemakers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920-1941

--Attempts to establish international peace and security in the 1920s

--International dimensions of the Great Depression

--US in Latin America

--Steps to war in Europe and Asia

Economic Revolution

• Economy
• Politics
• Society
• Culture
• International relations