TEST 1
 

 Because the history of the United States was shaped and influenced to a large degree by the geography of the continent, it is imperative that students know the basic details of United States geography. Therefore the student will be required to take a geography map test.

The multiple-choice map test will be taken in the Testing Center on an answer sheet provided by the Testing Center.

The map test will be the first test taken in this course and must be completed by the deadline date listed in the syllabus.

Atlas maps containing all of the features the student will need to identify are found in the textbook, America Past and Present, Volume 2, (eighth edition.) A practice map which may be copied for study is found here.

The test will specify thirty (30) of the following and ask the student to locate them on a map:

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TEST 2

Chapter 17
1. Identify the physical features of the Great Plains that impeded western settlement.
2. Describe the lifestyle of the Great Plains' Indians.
3. Name the major U.S. government Indian policies from 1830 to 1890.
4. Identify the most significant blow to Indian tribal life.
5. Describe the U.S. government's land distribution policy from1862-1890.
6. Identify the largest landowning group in the west.
7. Describe the major components of territorial government in the west.
8. Discuss the Spanish influences in southwestern life and institutions.
9. List the major mining strikes in the American West from 1848 to 1876.
10. Describe the typical mining camp of the 19th century.
11. Describe the steps in the development of the cattle industry.
12. Identify the major social and legal aspects of cowboy society.
13. Describe the physical and nature-related problems facing western farmers.
14. Explain the new farming methods developed in the American West.
15. Name the problems causing western farmer discontent.

Chapter 18
1. Explain the factors that caused rapid industrial growth in the 19th
century U.S.
2. List the elements in the transportation and communications revolutions.
3. Explain the advantages of the railroads in promoting economic growth.
4. Describe how post-Civil War railroads were constructed and their political and economic impact on society.
5. Name the major Northeast trunk lines.
6. Explain how the first Pacific railroad was constructed and financed.
7. Describe the economic results of railroad growth in the U.S.
8. Explain why the steel industry grew in the 1870's and 1880's.
9. Evaluate why Andrew Carnegie triumphed in the steel industry to 1901.
10. Describe why John D. Rockefeller triumphed in the oil industry.
11. List the two MOST important innovations of the late 19th century.
12. Describe the changes that took place in the selling or merchandizing of products in the late 19th century.
13. Discuss the working conditions of the late 19th century wage earner.
14. Describe the workplace conditions for 19th century women.
15. List the major components of the 19th century labor movement.

 Chapter 19
1. List the major changes in American lifestyles from 1877 to 1890.
2. Identify the developments in city architecture and housing patterns in the late 19th century.
3. Describe the social characteristics of immigrants from 1877 to 1890.
4. Describe the social characteristics of immigrants from 1890 to 1910.
5. Explain how the urban political machines worked from 1850 to 1900.
6. Identify the major reform movements from 1877 to 1890.
7. Name the main types of popular entertainment from 1877 to 1890.
8. Explain how the average American middle class family changed from 1877 to 1890.
9. Identify the main American educational trends from 1877 to 1890.
10. Name the court case establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine.
11. Describe the factors fostering the growth in higher education to 1900.
12. Describe the place of Blacks in higher education from 1860 to 1900.
13. Describe the goal of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise."
14. Explain how Henry George proposed to close the gap between America's rich and poor.
15. Describe the background and goals of the Settlement House program.

Chapter 20
1. Identify the issues supported by the Gilded Age Democratic Party.
2. Identify the issues supported by the Gilded Age Republican Party.
3. Name the court case giving states the right to regulate railroads.
4. Describe the Gilded Age presidents and their accomplishments.
5. List the laws passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1890.
6. Describe the Populists' major complaints.
7. Discuss the Ocala Platform of the Populists.
8. Describe the role of the Populists in the 1892 election.
9. Explain the difficulties of the second Cleveland administration.
10. Evaluate Grover Cleveland's response to the Depression of 1893.
11. Describe how and why women and children entered the labor force following the Depression of 1893.
12. Describe the developments in American literature of the 1870's..
13. Describe the campaign strategies of the candidates in 1896.
14. Evaluate the economy and domestic legistation of the first McKinley adminstration.
15. Describe the results of the election of 1900.

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TEST 3

Chapter 21
1. Explain why Americans became interested in an overseas empire in the late 19th century.
2. Discuss the tenets of Social Darwinism espoused by Josiah Strong.
3. Describe the basic goals of 19th century American foreign policy.
4. List the foreign policy goals of William H. Seward.
5. Explain U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America from 1869 to 1896.
6. Discuss the U.S. relationship with Hawaii in the 19th century.
7. Explain why Americans favored the annexation of Hawaii.
8. List the participants in the dispute over Pago Pago in 1889.
9. Describe Alfred Thayer Mahan's arguments for a new navy.
10. List the causes of the Spanish-American War.
11. Describe the types of U.S. troops used in the Spanish-American War.
12. List the major campaigns and ranking officers involved in the Spanish- American War.
13. Describe the new American empire after the Spanish-American War.
14. Explain the reasons for opposition in the U.S. to overseas empire.
15. Discuss John Hay's "Open Door" policy in China.

 Chapter 22
1. Name the leading industry in the mass production movement.
2. Explain how Henry Ford transformed the auto industry.
3. Name the industries dominated by trusts from 1898 to 1903.
4. Describe the important business developments from 1898 to 1909.
5. Discuss the important aspects of mass production in the early 20th century.
6. Describe the costs to workers of mass production.
7. List the principles of Frederick Taylor's scientific management.
8. Discuss the major aspects of U.S. farm life in the early 20th century.
9. Explain the conditions faced by working women in 1900.
10. Name the leader of the Niagara Movement.
11. Explain the main characteristics of immigration to the U.S. 1901-1920.
12. Name the major unions and their leaders in the early 20th century U.S. labor movement.
13. Describe the important demographical characteristics of the U.S. population in 1920.
14. List the important leisure activities of the early 1900's.
15. Describe the important changes in the traditional arts in the early 1900's.

 Chapter 23
1. List the supporters and goals of Progressivism.
2. Name the amendment giving women the right to vote nationally.
3. Describe the Progressive reforms in municipal government.
4. Describe the Progressive reforms in state government.
5. Discuss Theodore Roosevelt's view of the presidency and his appointments as president.
6. Explain Theodore Roosevelt's trust policy.
7. Name the first target of Theodore Roosevelt's attack on trusts.
8. Explain the resolution of the anthracite coal miners' strike of 1902.
9. List the legislative accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt's terms.
10. Describe the conservation policies of Theodore Roosevelt.
11. Discuss the issues over which the Republican Party split during Taft's presidency.
12. Describe the effects of the Mann-Elkins Act.
13. Identify the candidates and results of the presidential election of 1912.
14. List Wilson's legislative accomplishments of 1913-1916.
15. Describe Wilson's anti-progressive stands on legislation.

 Chapter 24
1. Describe Theodore Roosevelt's defense and foreign policies.
2. Discuss how the U.S. got the Panama Canal.
3. Explain the Roosevelt Corollary.
4. Describe the relations between the U.S. and Japan from 1900 to 1918.
5. Explain the goals of Taft's "Dollar Diplomacy."
6. Discuss Wilson's initial foreign policy ideology.
7. Describe Wilson's diplomacy prior to U.S. entry into World War I.
8. Describe Wilson's policy toward Mexico from 1913 to 1917.
9. Discuss the diplomatic events of 1914 leading to World War I.
10. Explain the basis of American support for Britain in 1914.
11. Explain why the U.S. entered World War I.
12. Describe the U.S. military contributions in World War I.
13. Discuss the U.S. domestic sector in World War I.
14. Identify the major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
15. Explain why the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.

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TEST 4

Chapter 25
1. List the prerequisites of the Second Industrial Revolution.
2. Discuss why the automobile industry grew in the 1920's.
3. Discuss U.S. economic growth in terms of sectors of the economy.
4. Describe the areas of economic weakness in the 1920's.
5. Explain the major economic events of the 1920's.
6. Describe changes for women and children in the 1920's.
7. List the main authors prominent in the Literary Flowering of the 1920's.
8. Explain the events of the Red Scare.
9. Evaluate the support for and the results of Prohibition.
10. Describe the membership and ideology of the Second Ku Klux Klan.
11. Describe the participants and results of the Scopes Trail.
12. Describe the scandals of the Harding administration.
13. Detail the Republicans' legislative accomplishments of the 1920's.
14. Describe the factions within the Democratic party in the 1920's.
15. Evaluate the candidates and their supporters in the election of 1928.

 Chapter 26
1. Discuss the causes of the Great Crash.
2. Evaluate the causes of the Great Depression.
3. Describe the social effects of the Great Depression on the population.
4. Name the most prominent victim of the Great Depression.
5. Describe Hoover's response to the Great Depression.
6. Name Franklin Roosevelt's first New Deal legislation.
7. Name the most successful and enduring of the New Deal programs.
8. Explain the implementation of the National Recovery Act.
9. Explain the implementation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
10. Describe the parts of Franklin Roosevelt's relief program.
11. Discuss the political oppositon to the New Deal.
12. Identify the true originator of Social Security.
13. Describe the ethnic and political changes resulting from the New Deal.
14. Explain why Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing scheme failed.
15. Explain why the Democrats suffered in the 1938 elections.

 Chapter 27
1. Discuss how the U.S. estranged itself from Europe in the 1920's.
2. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's new Latin American policy.
3. Discuss the results of the Washington Naval Conference of 1921.
4. Explain the reasons why isolationism increased in the U.S. during the 1920's and 1930's.
5. Detail the principal events of U.S. foreign policy from 1939 to 1941.
6. Explain why Japan went to war with the U.S.
7. Evaluate the planning and attack on Pearl Harbor.
8. Name the single greatest advantage of the U.S. in World War II.
9. Explain the U..S. distrust of the Soviet Union during World War II.
10. Describe the war plan followed by the Allies in 1942-43.
11. Describe the U.S. strategy in the Pacific during World War II.
12. Examine the major domestic developments during World War II.
13. Describe how Franklin Roosevelt won the election of 1944.
14. Evaluate the results of the Yalta conference.
15. Explain why the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945.

 Chapter 28
1. Discuss the results of the Potsdam Conference.
2. Describe events in Europe after its division between the free world and Communist camps.
3. Explain how the Soviets rebuilt their economy after World War II.
4. Name the supporters of the Containment Policy.
5. Describe the Truman Doctrine of 1947.
6. Discuss the elements of the Marshall Plan of 1947.
7. Explain the components of Truman's Containment Policy.
8. Evaluate the results of Russia's land blockade of West Berlin.
9. Describe the key elements of U.S. defense policy from 1945 to 1960.
10. Explain why China "fell" to the Communists in 1949.
11. Describe the results of China's "fall" to the Communists.
12. Detail Truman's political weaknesses.
13. Name the candidates for President in 1948.
14. Describe the events that encouraged the rise of McCarthyism.
15. Describe the events that contributed to the downfall of McCarthyism.

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TEST 5

Chapter 29

1. Discuss the main social events of the postwar era from 1945 to 1960.
2. Explain the cause of the U.S. post-World War II economic boom.
3. Describe why the U.S. economy moved forward from 1947 to 1950.
4. Explain the results of postwar suburbanization.
5. Describe the results of the launching of "Sputnik."
6. Describe the accomplishments of Truman's Fair Deal.
7. Discuss Eisenhower's legislative program.
8. List Eisenhower's legislative accomplishments.
9. Explain the role of the Supreme Court and the President in desegregating the schools.
10. Describe the main actions of the civil rights movement in the 1950's.

Chapter 30

1. Explain why Kennedy won the presidential election in 1960.
2. Describe Kennedy's defense policy.
3. Describe the results of the Second Berlin Crisis in 1962.
4. Describe Kennedy's strategy for containing Communism.
5. Evaluate Kennedy's Cuban policy of 1961.
6. Describe the Russian and U.S. actions in the Cuban missile crisis.
7. Describe Kennedy's civil rights program.
8. Name the Kennedy programs Johnson pushed through Congress.
9. List the legislative accomplishments of Johnson's Great Society.
10. Explain the motivation and results of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
11. Explain why Johnson pushed the U.S. into large-scale involvement in South Vietnam.
12. Discuss the focus of the student revolt of the 1960's.
13. Explain the fundamental change in the civil rights movement in the mid- 1960's.
14. Describe the events and results of the Tet Offensive in 1968.
15. Explain the campaign and the results of the presidential election of 1968.

 Chapter 31

1. Discuss the domestic policies of Richard Nixon.
2. Discuss the foreign policies of Richard Nixon regarding detente.
3. Detail Nixon's plan to end the Vietnam War.
4. Describe the key events in the Watergate Scandal leading to Nixon’s resignation.
5. Explain the causes of the energy crisis.
6. Describe the U.S. energy policy dealing with the energy shortage.
7. Explain why the Ford presidency was unsuccessful.
8. Explain why Carter proved to be a failure as president.
9. Describe Carter's Middle East foreign policy.
10. Describe Carter's Iranian crisis.
11. Explain why Reagan won the presidential election of 1980.
12. Explain the main principles of Reagan's supply-side economics.
13. Describe how Reagan hoped to reduce government spending.
14. Describe Reagan's domestic accomplishments.
15. Explain how Reagan restored U.S. standing and respect in the world.
16. Describe the basic tenet of Reagan's foreign policy.
17. Describe Reagan's Latin American foreign policy.
18. Describe the Reagan foreign policy toward the Soviet Union in 1987-88.

Chapter 32
1. Explain the factors involved in the 1988 election.
2. Describe the main elements of Bush's foreign policy.
3. Describe the events leading to U.S. foreign policy success in Kuwait.
4. Describe the major changes in the American population from 1970 to 2002.
5. Name the points of origin for most immigrants to the U.S. between 1970 and 2002.
6. Name the largest ethnic minority in the U.S. in 2002.
7. Name the second largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. in 2002.
8. Describe the general characteristics of Hispanic Americans in 2002.
9. Name the fastest growing minority group in the 2000's.
10. Describe the campaign and results of the presidential election of 1992.
11. Discuss Clinton's domestic policy in his first term.
12. Describe the campaign & results of the presidential election of 1996.
13. Discuss the Clinton Impeachment crisis.
14. Describe the presidential election of 2000.
15. Describe George W. Bush’s war on terrorism.

B and A Level Objectives-Book review
 

Rationale: This analytical book review will critically examine an important scholarly book covering some aspect of United States History since 1877. The purpose of the review is twofold: first, to acquaint the student with a classic volume of historical scholarship and second, to allow the student to think critically about an important facet of American history and then to organize your thoughts in clear, cogent prose.   You should not view this simply as a hurdle which you must overcome in order to earn a grade  in this course, but rather approach it as an opportunity to expand your creativity in thinking and writing, two very important aspects of any individual's necessary life skills.  Therefore, be advised that I consider this a VERY important aspect of this course and your reviews will be read and graded VERY carefully.

Form: Each book review will be approximately 1500 typewritten or word-processed words long. The main objective of this analytical book review  should be to comprehensively cover the three sections of the following book review outline:

Part I: This is a brief outline of the contents of the book.  In the space of one or two paragraphs you should be able to convey the parameters of the book's contents.  DO NOT simply reproduce the book's table of contents.

Part II: Here is the place for a careful summary of the author's thesis.   The thesis is the primary idea the author is trying to prove and convince the reader to accept as valid.   You must first identify the thesis and then show how the author either substantiates or fails to substantiate this thesis.  You should quote portions of the book in order to answer this part of the review, and you will need to cite page numbers for these quotations.   This will undoubtedly take you a page or two to do a good job.

Part III: This is your personal evaluation of the book and is the most important part of your analytical book review.  Here is where you describe your reaction to the book and put its contents in a comparative perspective with your textbook.  Some of the questions you must answer include: Do you agree or disagree with the book's conclusions?  Why or why not?  Did the book support or contradict what you read in your textbook on the same subject?  (You MUST quote some of the relevant passages from both books, citing page numbers.)   Did you detect any biases on the part of the author?  What was the author's background and why did he or she write the book?  How in your opinion could the book have been improved?  You must be specific and keep in mind there are NO perfect books.  Did you enjoy reading this book?   Why or why not?  Would you recommend it to others?

Grading: The book review will be graded "ACCEPTED" or "NOT ACCEPTED." If you submit your book review before the deadline date in the syllabus and it is graded "NOT ACCEPTED" you may revise it and resubmit it prior to the deadline date.  NO ANALYTICAL BOOK REVIEWS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE DEADLINE DATE IN THE SYLLABUS!

Books: The following books, all of which are found in the ACC libraries and most are available in the UT and Austin Public libraries, may be read for the analytical book review.  Tey are pre-approved.If you wish to substitute another book for one of these titles, YOU MUST RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTOR'S PRIOR APPROVAL.

David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School  Experience, 1875-1928
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy
Stephen Ambrose, Nixon
Lloyd Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in  Perspective
David Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61
Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women  During World War II
Ralph Andrist, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians
Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat; Courtship in Twentieth Century America
James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers,  1894- 1922
Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900
Michael Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
William Berman, William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist
Alison Bernstein, American Indians and World War II
Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire; The History of Gay Men and Women in WW II
Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63
Margaret Bixler, Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navaho Code Talkers of World War II
Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
James G Blight and David Welch, On the Brink, Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban  Missile Crisis
William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and its Critics
Robert R. Bowie, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Paul Boyer, By the Bombís Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the  Atomic Age
Arnold Brackman, Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
H. W. Brands, Cold Warriors
H. W. Brands, Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Robert Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
Robert Burk, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician
Anne Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865- 1890
Joe Carr, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas
Mina Carson, Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885- 1930
J.W. Chambers, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the KKK
N.H. Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
Mark Clodfelter, Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
Jean Cole, Women Pilots of World War II
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
Ruth Schwartz Cowen, A Social History of American Technology
Alfred Crosby, Americaís Forgotten Pandemic: the Influenza of 1918
Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
M.W. Davis, Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870- 1930
Linda Ditmar, From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and Sputnik
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
Carol Felsenthal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Francis Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Richard Fried, Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy Era in Perspective
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment
Mario Garcia, Mexican Americans; Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960
Raymond Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation
John Garraty, The Great Depression
Haim Genizi, America's Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons,  1945-52
Marc Gilbert, Tet Offensive
Ray Ginger, Six Days or Forever? Tennessee vs. John Scopes
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
David Goldfield, Promised Land, The South Since 1945
Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women  Workers in the United States
James Gregory, American Exodus, Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
Richard Griswold del Castillo, La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to  Present
Max Hastings, The Korean War
Samuel Hays, Beauty, Health and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States,  1955-85
George Herring, Americaís Longest War: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
Barbara Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition
Nathan Huggins, Harlem Renaissance
Mary Ann Humphrey, My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in  the Military, WW II to the present
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jenna Wiseman Joselit, Our Gang
Lawrence Kaplan, NATO and the United States, The Enduring Alliance
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work
Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City,  1880-1915
Warren Kimball, The Most Unsorted Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1940
Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: A History of Brown vs. Board of Education
Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
Gina Kolata, The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Mark Landis, Joseph McCarthy: The Politics of Chaos
Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: the Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate overScience and Religion
Judith Leavith, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
Robert Leckie, Conflict: the History of the Korean War
Wm. M LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
Robert S. Litwak, Detente and the Nixon Doctrine
Harold Livesay, Samuel Gompers & Organized Labor in America
C.A. MacDonald, Korea: The War Before Vietnam
William Manchester, The American Caesar
Manning Marable, W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat
Carole Marks, Farewell, Weíre Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration
Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Christopher Matthews, Kennedy, Nixon and the Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America
Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife: the Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Elaine May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
Elaine May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Francis MacDonald, Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front
Robert MacElvaine, The Great Depression
David McBride, From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900
Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic
John Patrick McDowell, The Social Gospel in the South
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Marian Morton, Emma Goldman and the American Left
Robert Murray, The Harding Era
Donald Neff, Warriors at Suez
Humbert Nelli, The Business of Crime: Italians & Syndicate Crime in the US
Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign against the Jews
John Newhouse, Cold Dawn
Daniel Novak, The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Emancipation
James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, Where the Dominos Fell, America and Vietnam, 1945- 1990
Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto
F.D. Pasley, Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man
James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty 1900-1985
Thomas G. Patterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War
Gordon Prange, At Dawn We Slept
Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
Julie Leininger Pycior, LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power
Stephen Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America
Arnold Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W.E. B DuBois
William Rehnquist, All Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United  States
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese-Americans
David Rosner, Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in 20thc America
E.M. Rudwick, W.E.B. DuBois: Propogandist of Negro Protest
John Gerard Ruggie, Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
Edward & Frederick Schapmeier, Dirksen of Illinois
Lois Scharf, Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism
Robert Schulzinger, Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy
Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies: All Black Combat Squadrons of WW II
Glenn Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban Treaty
David Shannon, Between Wars
Neil Shehhan, A Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
David Shi, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980
Douglas Smith, The New Deal in the Urban South
Donald Smythe, Pershing: General of the Armies
Dorothy Schneider, Into The Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I
John Stilgoe, Borderland: The Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1930
Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The  Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America
Robert Snyder. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Gerald Sorin, Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
Robert Strong, Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of Foreign Policy
Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family  Life in the  United States 1900-1930
Ronald Tobery, Technology as Freedom; the New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home
Kathleen Turner, Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
Irwin Unger, The Movement: A History of the American New Left, 1959-72
Adam Ulam, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II
Robert Utley, Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian
Brian Van de Mark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
Jill Watts, God, Harlem U.S,A,: The Father Divine Story
George Ernest Webb, The Evolution Controversy in America
Arthur & Lila Weinberg, Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel
Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War
William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American  Institutions
Randall Woods, Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for Order
David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust
Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
Neil Wynn, From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society
Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-90
Nancy Zarroulis & G. Sullivan, Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam,  1963-1975
Robert Zieger, American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985
 

HIST 1302(PCM) Sample Test Questions

The following are sample test questions you might expect to encounter on the exams covering the textbook material.
They fall into three categories: 1) the "Except" type question, 2) the "All of the above are correct" variety, and 3) the
one-concept answer type question.

The "Except" question is used when there is more than one factor or cause that precipitated the event mentioned in the
Learning Objective and it is important that you recognize all of these factors. For example, Chapter 17 Learning
Objective 1 asks you to identify the physical features that impeded settlement on the Great Plains. If you turn to
America: Past and Present, pages 490-491, you will see a number of factors listed: treeless and flat terrain, the lack
of good rivers, little rainfall, little timber, tough soil, and intemperate weather. Therefore the question reads:

1. All of the following physical features influenced westem settlement EXCEPT:

    A. few rivers
    B. abundant precipitation
    C. a lack of lumber
    D. intemperate climate
    E. tough and inhospitable soil
In this case the correct answer is choice "B" which is the exception. If you know the various factors listed in the textbook, then picking this answer is simple.

The second type of question, the "All of the above are correct" question, is used when there are 4 or 5 important
factors and you need to know them. For instance, Chapter 18 Learning Objective 6 asks you to explain how the first
Pacific Railroad was constructed and financed. Turning to the text, page 525, you discover this railroad was built by
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, partially financed by the US government, actually constructed in large part by
Irish and Chinese immigrants, and hampered by Indian attacks. Therefore the test question might read:

2. The first transcontinental railroad

    A. was built by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies
    B. was financed partially by US government loans and grants
    C. was physically built by ex-soldiers and Irish and Chinese immigrants
    D. met resistance from Indians
    E. All of the above are correct.
In this case the correct answer is choice "E" since all of the first four choices are correct parts of the total answer. If you just select "A", "B", "C", or "D" it will be counted as incorrect since it is only part of the correct answer.

The third type of question is the one concept answer type of question. An example of this is Chapter 17 Learning
Objective 6 requiring you to identify the largest landowning group in the west. Turning to the textbook on page 503 in
the second column you read "...the railroad companies were the West's largest landowners.~ The corresponding
question might be:

3. The largest landowners in the west were the

    A railroads
    B. mining companies
    C. cattlemen
    D. farmers
    E. None of these is correct.
The correct answer is obvious choice "A".

Most of the Learning Objectives have several several important factors, influences, steps, results or developments
(whichever the Learning Objective requires) and therefore as you review the text to find the answers, you ought to
find three or four factors, etc. for each Learning Objective. Relatively few of the Learning Objectives can be answered
with one word answers such as found in the third type of question. As you find the three or four pertinent factors, etc.
for each Learning Objective, WRITE OUT your answer, and then study your notes; you ought to do well on the
exams. If you simply skim the text looking for one word answers to the Learning Objectives, you WILL have
difficulty with the exams. Put the time into studying and you should be pleased with your test results.
 

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