CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Department of History
History 144
Prof. Moore
Spring 2006
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE SECOND MIDTERM
Be able to explain and note the significance of the following:
nativism
Jane Addams
Eugene V. Debs
Populism
free silver
muckrakers
Muller v. Oregon
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Platt Amendment
Influenza
The Fourteen Points
CCC
AAA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security
Sacco and Vanzetti
Oregon system (direct democracy)
Creel Committee/Committee on Public. Info.
Sedition Act
The Influence of Seapower on History
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
League of Nations
National Origins Act of 1924
The Man Nobody Knows
The Fundamentals
Black Tuesday
The Dustbowl
Neutrality Acts
Zimmerman Telegram
War Industries Board
The Great Migration
Lusitania
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire
Volstead
Bonus Army
Essay Questions:
1. In what ways does America’s role in Latin American and the Caribbean from 1900-1914 reflect new
American foreign policy goals and methods?
2. In what ways do the Populist and Progressive Movements in the PNW reflect the origins and
goals of populists and progressives nationally?
3. Explain the concept of total war. In what ways do we see the manifestations of total war in the
American experience in World War I?
4. In what ways does Wilsonian idealism help explain both the American participation in the Great War
as well as the results or outcome of it? In what ways was it yet another progressive crusade? In what
ways did American goals at Versailles in 1919 reflect or not reflect European concerns? Why did the
United States ultimately reject the treaty of Versailles?
5. What was the nature and basis of the American economy during the 1920s and what was its impact on
American society? In what ways did the automobile transform American society and culture?
6. What types of cultural conflict characterized the 1920s? Why at that time in American history? In
what ways were these conflicts the result of a larger urban-rural split in American society?
7. When historians play the periodic game of ranking presidents, FDR is usually found at or
near the top of the list. Why? What characteristics, qualities, or skills did he possess that
others who have held the office seem to have lacked or did not have in as great a measure?
Provide examples.