MIDTERM REVIEW

History 232/Dr. Schmoll/Winter 2009/Midterm Review

Test Date: Monday, February 9
Bring a Blue Book
Format: 5 identifications of 6 choices and 1 Essay of 2 choices

I. IDENTIFICATIONS: I’ll put 6 of these, and you’ll write on 5 of them:

Wade-Davis Bill Tenure of Office Act
14th Amendment Freedmen’s Bureau
Andrew Carnegie Laissez faire
Social Darwinism Yellow Journalism
USS Maine Pure Food and Drug Act
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Sheppard-Towner Act
Carrie Nation 18th Amendment
Volstead Act 19th Amendment
Black Tuesday Harlem Renaissance
Sacco and Vanzetti Scopes Monkey Trial
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Agricultural Adjustment Act
Emergency Banking Act Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act Harry Hopkins
Huey Long Jim Crow Laws

SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION: To receive full credit you must accurately identify and give the significance of each term. Here’s an answer from a student from last quarter that received full credit.

The USS Maine was a ship stationed in Havana Harbor in 1898 to control the violence in Cuba between the Spanish and the Cuban revolutionaries. An explosion in the boiler room killed around 120 Americans aboard the Maine, leading newspapers and people in the U.S. Congress to blame the Spanish. This was a perfect example of yellow journalism, where Hearst and Pulitzer’s newspapers exaggerated events to sell more papers: “if it bleeds it leads.” The result of this was the Spanish American War. This was important because it gave the U.S. an empire for the first time, ending the Spanish empire. It also showed the importance of journalism in the modern world.


II. ESSAY: I’ll put two of these, and you’ll write an essay on one of them:

Ø What happened to the former slaves at the end of the Civil War? Was government successful in giving aid and in reconstructing the South?
Ø What were the most important reforms of the Progressive era? Why did these reforms come about?
Ø What caused the Great Depression? What were the key government responses?
Ø The decade of the 1920s has been characterized by both cultural flowering and signs of provincialism. Discuss how the 1920s was a time of both ignorance and advance. Finally, which is a more accurate way of characterizing that period, progress or decay?