History 102 Midterm Review
The midterm for History 102 is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7th. It will be based upon
material taken from the lectures, the textbook and primary sources from the first five
weeks. (Note: the definitions are specific to their context presented in class and readings,
therefore internet searches will not necessarily provide the correct information.) The
exam will consist of two parts--the first includes short answer identifications (8 pts each).
You must explain the who/what of the term, the historical context, and its larger
significance. For the second part of the exam, you will answer two essay questions (of the
three below), again, drawing upon the variety of sources we’ve examined (30 pts each).
Make sure you bring a blue book to class. Enjoy.
IDs (8pts):
The Fourteenth Amendment
Scientific Management
The Populist Party
Ghost Dance
AFL
Compromise of 1877
Buffalo Soldiers
The Railroad Strike of 1877
Freedman’s Bureau
Fourteenth Amendment
Birth of a Nation
Social Darwinism
Vertical integration
Dawes Act
Liberty of contract
Muckrackers
Fordism
Socialism
Margaret Sanger
Sixteenth Amendment
Maternalist Reform
Federal Trade Commission
Chinese Exclusion Act
Booker T. Washington
WCTU
The White Man’s Burden
Platt Amendment
Eugenics
Essay: You will write on two of these three prompts (30pts):
1. How and why did the United States expand as an imperial power in the 1890s? How does race
figure in this process?
2. The Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century addressed what many saw as
problems arising from the new industrial order. What were some of these problems and what
specific remedies did Progressives attempt? Discuss the ways in which Progressivism expanded
democracy and limited democracy. (How progressive was the Progressive Movement?)
3. Discuss race relations in the era of Jim Crow. Did the United States move closer or further to
the ideals of equality in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century? How did African
Americans (and perhaps other groups) respond to this racial climate?