Dr. Michael Wm. Doyle
Department of History
Burkhardt Bldg. 213
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0480
Office Phone: 765-285-8732
E-mail: mwdoyle@bsu.edu
Office Hours: Weds., 2:00-4:00 P.M. & by appt.
Fax: 765-285-5612
Course Home Page: http://mwdoyle.iweb.bsu.edu/hist_201/
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HIST. 201-002: U.S. HISTORY, 1877 TO THE PRESENT
Fall Semester 2010
STUDY GUIDE FOR 2nd MIDTERM EXAM TO BE HELD IN CLASS
ON THURSDAY, 4 NOV. 2010, 2:00-3:15 P.M. IN BB 101
(Corresponds to Weeks 7-11: Readings in Norton, Chapters 7-11;
and Documents in Marcus and Boller; and Lectures, Discussions, and Film Excerpts)
Note: Exam Study Sessions will be conducted by G.A. Matt Follett on
Mon., 1 November 2010, 10:00-11:00 A.M., in BB 201, and
Tues., 2 November 2010, 7:00-8:00 P.M., in BB 102
Format and Grading of the Second Midterm Exam
The Exam will consists of five parts:
Points
Question
Type,
Quantity
and
Value
35
Multiple-choice questions: 35 @ 1 point each
10
Map Identification: 10 @ 1 point each
20
Vocabulary Section: 10 @ 2 points each
5
Time-Line: 5 @ 1 point each
35
Essay: 1 @ 35 points
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100
+ 5 Bonus Points [Grade based on a 100 point scale]
Week 7: “Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789”
The three types of republicanism: self-sacrificing, economic, and egalitarian
Judith Sargent Murray; Abigail Adams, “Republican Motherhood”; women’s role in the early
republic
Articles of Confederation
The Northwest Ordinances (1784-1787); Northwest Territory
Shay’s Rebellion; George Richards Minot, “Shay’s Rebellion: Prelude to the Constitution”
Constitutional Convention; James Madison
Virginia and New Jersey Plans; the ‘Great Compromise’
Separation of powers; checks and balances
Slavery and the ‘three-fifths’ provision
Federalists’ and Antifederalists’ battle over ratification of the Constitution
James Madison, The Federalist, Number Ten
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Week 8: “The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800”
Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Alexander Hamilton and his fiscal policies; Alexander Hamilton, “On Manufactures (1791)”
Strict- vs. broad-constructionist views of the Constitution
Whiskey Rebellion
Republicans vs. Federalists
George Washington, “Farewell Address”;
John Adams and political dissent: XYZ Affair;
Alien and Sedition Acts; Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions;
The ‘Quasi-War’ of 1798-1800
The election of 1800
Jews in the Early Republic, “Assimilation and Discrimination”
Week 9: “Defining the Nation, 1801-1823”
The “revolution of 1800”; Thomas Jefferson, “First Inaugural Address (1801)”
John Marshall and the U.S. Supreme Court [see also Norton, Chap. 8]; Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Rise of the ‘Cotton South’; Eli Whitney and the Invention of the Cotton Gin
Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark Expedition;
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, “Crossing the Continent”
Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel
Tecumseh, The Prophet, and the Shawnee Confederacy
The War of 1812: causes, prosecution and consequences of; Major John Horton
(Teyoninhokarawen), “Casting Their Lot with the British”; the Hartford Convention
‘Era of Good Feelings’; James Monroe, “The Monroe Doctrine”
Missouri Compromise
Week 10: “The Rise of the South, 1815-1860”
American Indian resistance and removal;
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831); Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
“Appeal to the Cherokee Nation”; John Ross, “Trail of Tears”
Slavery: structure and growth of; social and cultural aspects; the plantation system;
Henry “Box” Brown, “A Family Torn Apart By Slavery”; Harriet Jacobs, “Life of a
Female Slave”; Frances Anne [Fanny] Kemble [film/lecture] and slave labor at Middleburg
Plantation (Charleston, S.C.); Modes of Resistance to Slavery; Nat Turner’s Rebellion; Nat
Turner, “A Slave Insurrection (1831)” and “Statement to the Court (1831)”; William Lloyd
Garrison, et. al., “Who Is to Blame? (1831)”; the Underground Railroad
“King Cotton”; Planters, yeomen, landless whites; free blacks
Southern paternalism
Role of elite women
Week 11: “The Modernizing North, 1815-1860”
Transformation of transportation systems; infrastructure
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Emergence of a market economy
The ‘American system’ of manufacturing
New England textile Mills; Gender divisions in labor, women in labor force;
Mary Paul, “The Lowell Textile Workers”; The Lowell Offering, “Letters From Lowell
(1844)”; Emergence of a labor movement; Ely Moore, “Address to the General Trades’
Union”; “Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters of Boston (1845)”
Development of commercial farming
Changes in rural life
Urbanization; changes in city living
Stratification of social classes
Growth and effect of immigration;
Exclusion and segregation of African Americans; Emergence of black nationalism
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The Midterm Exam consists of five parts:
I.
Multiple-choice Section (35 items worth 1 point each; allow 25-30 minutes)
You will answer a series of multiple-choice questions based on the topics indicated in Weeks 711 sections above. These are drawn from lectures, film excerpts, and reading assignments. Reviewing
your answers to the weekly Reading Assignment Study Questions will be especially helpful in your
preparation for this section.
II.
Time Line Section (5 items worth 1 point each; allow 2 to 5 minutes)
You will need to place 5 items in their proper chronological order. These will be drawn from the terms in
boldface font above in the sections for Weeks 7-11.
III.
Map Identification Section (10 items worth 1 point each; allow 2 to 5 minutes)
This section requires you to locate 10 different items. To study, closely examine the maps in your Norton
text on pp. 180, 184, 228, 236, 244, 261, and 291 and be prepared to locate the following items:
each of the 5 Great Lakes
the Louisiana Purchase
each of the 5 states of the Old Northwest Territory
the Erie Canal
the National Road
the Mississippi River
the Trail of Tears
the Ohio River
states added to the Union between 1791-1821: AL, IL, IN, KY, LA, ME, MS, MO, OH, TN, VT
IV. Essay Section (1 question worth 35 points; allow 25 to 30 minutes)
This section is designed to assess how well you understand basic concepts in the course and are able to
make an argument using historical evidence. Your essay should be structured and written in the same
way you would a term paper; that is, you should have a thesis, support that position with pertinent facts,
and conclude in a clear, concise way. Everything you use in the body of your essay should explicitly
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relate to your central argument. Do not introduce facts that are irrelevant to that task. You will be allowed
to bring in a set of notes for use in writing this section of the exam only. It must not exceed one side of
an 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper. This sheet, with your name and seat number on it, must be turned in
along with your Exam and Scantron form at the end of the testing period.
Two of the following four essay questions will appear on the exam. You will write on your
choice of one of them. [Note: these will be posted in this space no later than one week prior to the Exam.]
1.
With reference to pertinent provisions in each document, identify the Article of Confederation’s
major flaws, showing how these affected the nation following the Revolutionary War, then discuss the
specific ways the Constitution of 1787 rectified these problems. Finally, answer the question: What
issue(s) did the framers leave unsettled and why? Your answer should draw on at least one secondary
source, two primary sources, two film excerpts, and two lectures, each of which you should cite.
2.
Discuss how partisan politics emerged in the United States between 1787 and 1800. Your essay
should identify the major factions, their ideologies, and most prominent members, then show how their
positions on certain key issues gradually developed into the two-party system that has continued to define
American politics over the succeeding two centuries. Your thesis-centered essay should draw on at least
two primary sources, two secondary sources, two film excerpts, and two lectures, each of which you
should cite.
3.
In Thomas Jefferson’s controversial opinion, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. It is
a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. God forbid that we should ever be twenty
years without such a rebellion.” Compare and contrast the following three uprisings which occurred
during the early years of the republic: Shays’s Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Gabriel’s
Rebellion. Then explain whether Jefferson’s views were supported by these events and justify your
position. Your answer should draw on at least two primary sources, two secondary sources, one film
excerpt, and two lectures, each of which you should cite.
4.
Discuss in specific terms the major events in federal-Indian relations between 1790 and 1840.
Next, analyze the treatment of Native peoples by the federal government during the nation’s first halfcentury from the standpoint of the American commitment to securing liberty, equality, and constitutional
protection for all. Your answer should be based on at least two primary sources, two secondary sources,
two film excerpts, and two lectures, each of which you should cite.
V. Vocabulary Section (10 items worth 2 points each; allow 10 to 15 minutes total)
In this section you'll need to furnish a brief definition in a complete sentence of your choice of 10 out of
15 items drawn from the following terms as introduced and defined in lecture. [Note: the list below is
partial since it only includes terms as they are introduced and defined in lecture. You should access the
course webpage at the end of each week through the evening of Tues., 4 November 2010 for new terms as
they are posted here.]
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Week 7:1 (Tuesday, 5 October 2010):
contingency
inhere
democracy
republic
paternalism
defer, deference
sumptuary laws
incompetent
egalitarian
bicameral
franchise
universal manhood suffrage
confederation
Week 7:2 (Thursday, 7 October 2010):
mercantile
litigation
litigious
hubris
coercive
protégé
Week 8:1 (Tuesday, 12 October 2010):
adjudicate
tariff
altruism
manumit
levy
unanimous
coup
Federalists
Antifederalists
federalism
Week 8:2 (Thursday, 14 October 2010):
political economy
U.S.A. PATRIOT Act
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xenophobia
honor
finesse
consensus
indispensible
precedent
Week 9:1 (Tuesday, 19 October 2010):
partisan rancor
fiscal
incoherent
jurisdiction
judicial activism
“legislating from the bench”
quid pro quo
(theory of the) unitary executive
states’ rights
misnomer
broad constructionism
strict constructionism
Week 9:2 (Thursday, 21 October 2010):
infrastructure
charisma
a “praying town”
artisanal
self-sufficiency
autonomy
excise
distillery
capital offense
“redress of grievances”
agrarian
inadvertent
yeomen
competence
pestilential
Week 10:1 (Tuesday, 26 October 2010):
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“sunset provision”
Indian Removal Act
status quo ante
sectionalism
secessionism
ominous
acculturation
“ethnic cleansing”
euphemism
assimilation
annihilate
intercourse
paternalism
Week 10:2 (Thursday, 28 October 2010):
immediatist
gradualist
slander
libel
annuities
perpetuity
cede, cession
inevitable
philosophés
“civilizing mission”
Moravian
Week 11:1 (Tuesday, 2 November 2010):
accommodationists
traditionalists
Mekinģes
Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville
Tenskwatawa
Week 11:2 (Thursday, 4 November 2010):
[No new terms because of administration of Second Midterm Exam]