History 244 – Modern United States History
Professor Rogers
Midterm Examination Study Guide
This study guide should provide you with all of the necessary information to study and do well on the final examination. Students will be provided with a blue book(s)in which to write their answers.
The midterm examination will be held on Wednesday, October 24th. Students will have the entirety of their class period to take the exam.
Structure
The exam will be broken into two parts: term identification and short answer questions.
Part One – Term Identification (15 points)
Students will be given between ten and fifteen terms drawn from the lectures, of which they will be asked to identify only THREE. Again, students are to select only THREE TERMS to identify. Any terms identified beyond that will be ignored. Each identified term will be worth up to five points, for a total of fifteen points on this part of the exam.
In indentifying terms students are expected to explain WHO or WHAT the term is, WHEN the term took place historically, WHERE the term fits geographical, and, most importantly, give the Historical Significance of the term. When describing the WHEN of a term, a student is not required to always give an exact date – centuries (such as 1600s, 1700s, etc.) or over all time periods (the Medieval Warm Period, the American Revolution, etc.) are acceptable. When discussing the Historical Significance of a term students should be sure to stress why the term is important to American history and place in context with other events, people, and historical processes we have discussed in class. Any answer that does not cover all of these points will lose points.
List of possible terms on the test is provided below
Part Two – Short Answer (10 points)
Students will be given between five and ten short answer questions, of which they will be asked to answer TWO. Again, students are only to answer TWO questions. Any questions answered beyond that will be ignored. Each question answered will be worth up to five points, for a total of ten points on this part of the exam.
Answers are expected to be between three to four paragraphs and answer all aspects of the question. Any answer that is either too short or fails to cover every aspect of the question will lose points.
Terms
Transportation revolution
Railroads
Communication revolution
The telegraph
Industrial Revolution
Factories
“cult of domesticity”
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans
“Restoration”
The Black Codes
Radical Reconstruction
The 14th Amendment
Union Leagues
Sharecropping
“scalawags”
“carpetbaggers”
Redeemer Democrats
Klu Klux Klan
Colfax Massacre
Redemption
U.S. Grant
15th Amendment
Panic of 1873
Compromise of 1876
Transcontinental railroad
National brands
Second Industrial Revolution
“new” immigration
The corporation
“limited liability”
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Middle management
“Taylorism”
Holding companies
Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
The Social Question
Panic of 1893
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Labor Unionism
The New South
Bourbon Democrats
“home rule”
Southern Transcontinental railroad
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Jim Crow
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise
Ida B. Wells
Plessy v. Ferguson
Progressivism
The new middle class
Professionalization
The Social Gospel
Political Machines
The initiative
The referendum
Recall elections
City-managers
Women’s suffrage
Feminists
Materialists
19th Amendment
World War I
Committee on Public Information (CPI)
Espionage and Sedition Acts
“the return to normal”
Automobiles
Commercial Aviation
The telephone
The assembly line
“Fordism”
Electricity
The New Era
Consumer culture
Public amusements & mass entertainment
Coney Island
The New Woman
The flapper
The Great Migration
The Great Crash
Causes of the Great Depression
International debt crisis
The ordeal of the Great Depression
Depression culture
Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)
Countervailing power
The First Hundred Days
Emergency Banking Act
Glass-Steagal Act
FDIC
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Civil Works & Public Works Administrations
“American Liberty League”
Industrial unionism
Congress of Organizations (CIO)
Second New Deal;
Wagner Act
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Social Security Act
Court Packing Scheme
“Roosevelt Recession”
Fair Labor Standards Act
