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first exam will consist of twenty five to thirty multiple choice/fill
in
the blank questions (25% of test grade), five short answer questions
(25%),
and one long essay (50%). Be prepared to answer questions on any
of the material covered in class: handouts; your primary text; Redemption;
the photocopied course pack; as well as lecture content and film
clips.
ESSAY QUESTION
You will receive
one of three questions below on the essay section. You will not
know
which one of the three will be on the exam, so study for all of
them.
Some pointers: answer the question as directly and clearly as
possible.
Be sure to address all the components of the question. Remember
to
integrate the relevant reading and lecture material to support your
argument.
Always avoid vague generalizations. Refer to specific events,
policies,
groups, ideas and individuals in your answers. Blue books will be
provided for your essay question.
1.
Other than the obvious freedom from slavery itself, what did freedom
mean
to African Americans after the war? To what extant did ex-slaves
truly gain their freedom?
2. Compare
the real West to the mythic West created by everyone from Horace Greely
and Buffalo Bill to dime novel authors and epic events in Western
history.
3. How did
rapid industrial growth change work life and home life for the American
laborer in the late nineteenth century? How did industrial
workers
respond to these changes?
TERMS, NAMES,
IDEAS
If you are
familiar with the terms and names below, it should help you
considerably
on all three sections of the exam. Remember, it is best
to
know the “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” and “why” of these. The
“why” or the significance of any term or name is most important.
General
William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15
1866 Civil
Rights Act
Thaddeus Stevens
the impeachment
proceedings against Andrew Johnson
“scalawags”
and “carpetbaggers”
Crédit
Mobilier
Panic of 1873
Liberal Republicans
The Compromise
of 1877
Wounded Knee
Helen Hunt Jackson
Frederick
Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis”
Medicine Lodge
Treaty of 1867
the Homestead
Act
Buffalo Bill
the South’s
“colonial economy”
Little Bighorn
the Dawes
Act
Paiute prophet
Wovoka
Helen Hunt
Jackson
Chinese Exclusion
Act
The Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie’s
“Gospel of Wealth”
Gilded Age
Conspicuous consumption
horizontal
combination and vertical integration
the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act
Haymarket
Square riot
the American
Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor
Tenements
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