LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI  600 034.
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION  ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER  APRIL 2003
HT 3102 / HIS 102  AMERICAN HISTORY
07.04.2003
9.00  12.00
Max : 100 Marks
PART  A
Answer any TEN of the following not exceeding FIVE lines each.
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Spanish Armada 1558
Boston Tea Party
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Block Codes, 1865
The New Lands Proclamation Act, 1902
The ‘Muckrakers’
New Freedom
The Coal Strike 1902
New Deal
Fair Deal
March on Washington
Fourteen points of Wilson
PART  B
Answer any FOUR of the following, each not exceeding ONE page.
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(10 2=20 marks)
(4 10=40 marks)
Examine the salient features of the Constitution of U.S.A.
Evaluate the efforts made by President Johnson to Reconstruct America.
Make an estimate of the Presidentship of John F. Kennedy.
What was the policy followed by President Nixon in relation to India.
Write a biographical sketch of Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the role of America in the operation of NATO?
PART  C
Answer any TWO of the following, not exceeding FOUR pages each.
(220=40 marks)
19. Was the American Civil war inevitable and evaluate the outcome of the war?
20. How did Abraham Lincoln manage the crisis during the Civil War in America?
21. Examine the causes for grant Depression and highlight the Role of FDR, OOSEVELT in
overcoming it.
22. Critically examine the role played by America in the I and II world Wars.
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