Friday, February 27, 2009

midterm review: essay themes & ID terms

On the Essay Section of the midterm, you will be presented with 2 questions selected from the following set of themes. You will be required to write an essay on 1 of them:

1. Civil Rights reform and racist reaction from Reconstruction to the dawn of the Cold War.

2. World War One, the League of Nations, and the limits of Woodrow Wilson's progressive agenda.

3. The causes of the Great Depression and the policy legacy of FDR.

4. Changing American attitudes towards communism and the USSR before, during, and after World War Two.


ID Section

From the following list of names and terms, 10 will appear on the midterm. From among those 10, you will be required to select 6 and explain the historical significance of each:


1.Thaddeus Stevens

2.Andrew Johnson

3.“Tilden or Blood”

4.Compromise of 1877

5.Little Big Horn

6.Buffalo Soldiers

7.Victoria Woodhull

8.Homestead Strike

9.The “Cross of Gold” Speech

10.Mark Hanna

11.Emilio Aguinaldo

12.W.E.B. Du Bois

13.Pragmatism

14.“The Bully Pulpit”

15.Upton Sinclair

16.John Muir

17.The 16th Amendment

18.“Birth of a Nation”

19.Lusitania

20.Creel Commission

21.Versailles

22.“Return to Normalcy”

23.Marcus Garvey

24.Fordism

25.Installment Plan

26.Black Tuesday

27.Hoovervilles

28.CCC

29.TVA

30.Atlantic Charter

31.Axis Powers

32.Robert Oppenheimer

33.George F. Kennan

34.Sidney Hook

35.Berlin Airlift

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