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Unit 1 Study Guide – a
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Table of Contents:
Practical
Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know
The
two parts of the exam are:
All
of the questions are done as sets:
Information
that students frequently want to know about the two parts of the tests:
Practical
Issues about Content That Students Frequently Want To Know
Information
that students frequently want to know about writing an answer:
Specific
Tips for Each Chapter
· The objective part means methods that are machine gradable, such as multiple choice, true/false, ordering items, and matching items.
· The written part means a good, competent factual explanation of something in the history covered from Chapter 16 to Chapter 19.
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The objective part consists of 25 questions at 4
points each--but, for each question, fate (or Blackboard) could ask you any 1
of 4 or more questions.
In other words, there are a minimum of 100 questions in the test.
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The written part displays 1 question worth 20
points for its contents. A separate grade of 20 f=is for whether you follow the
5 Good Habits for Evidence). Fate (or Blackboard) could ask you any of the
other questions in the set.
In other words, there are a minimum of 8 possible written questions, but those
questions give you a choice, but Caution:
you must write on only 1 of the choices.
Tip: Notice that word
OR in the question and choose to answer the one that you know best.
· You have thirty minutes for the objective part of the test, and 45 minutes for the written part of the test.
· You really won’t have time to look up much, but you may use your book and sources in the course.
· The questions are meant to be ones that are useful understanding about history. They will not be trick questions.
· The Instructor’s quiz Tip: You must notice those discipline-specific basics when you write and in this Exam
· InQuizitive chapters for the Unit – but not in the exact words of the InQuizitive questions
· The textbook – but not in the exact words of the textbook
· The required primary sources
· Typically, the best short questions ask you explain an event (or a region at a specific period of time), give specific examples, and explain its major traits.
· Caution: You must be specific and answer the question asked and use evidence appropriate for the question asked.
· Caution: You must only use facts from the textbook or sources in the course.
· Caution: You must place immediately after a fact in your own words or a fact in the author’s words (a quotation) the word PAGE and then a specific page number. Example: (PAGE: 350)
· Caution: If you use the exact words (such as 3 words in a row) of the author, you must also use “" as covered in the Good Habits for Evidence.
· Tip: The best qualities for writing about history are that the writing follows the 5 Good Habits for Evidence.
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Tip: The goal of
writing is to help you learn history and the best way to learn history is to
try to teach it in a common sense but truthful and brief way.
Think of it as teaching your smart cousin something he or she must learn
quickly but well. He or she would not want a lot of words or a lot of fluff.
Tip: I will tend to ask about things that are useful to your future. I will not ask “trick questions” like a T/F with a fake date. I will tend to ask you questions on both parts of the exam that will help you notice three big things:
1. How (and why) were different from one period to another so you realize humans like you had consequences on what happened
2. What vocabulary you need to understand the news
3. How and when to confirm that something someone says is accurate
1. Look for the inventions that mark this era both with products and with the rise of urban life
2. Examine the growth of railroads.
3. Examine device, new inventions
4. Examine
the rise of corporations in what industries and how they gained power over competitors and state government
(including how they used the law to stop state legislatures from regulating
corporations that they created)
Tips:
· Look for the words trust and holding company
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What is written below is something that I am
used to seeing in some form in most textbooks and these facts tend to help students
understand. Favor: If you find this
information in your textbook, please email me the page number(s).
At this time in history, the process was that state legislatures gave the
authority for a business to have the rights of a corporation, including limited
liability for their actions. New Jersey was one of the states most favorable to
corporations. Here’s a simple example of liability:
- If you were the sole proprietor of a store and someone got hurt because of
your actions and sued you, you could lose your business and your home and your
other personal assets.
- If you were incorporated, you lost only your investment in the business.
· Look at the terms horizontal and vertical integration and who did them
5. Look at industrial capitalists and the famous financial capitalist
6. Look at the relationship between government and robber barons. It will be no surprise that there is a growing movement during the Gilded Age (and notice that term) to clean up this mess.
7. Examine the robber barons, the middle class, and varied poor in the working class—including injuries, death rate, and child labor
8. Examine the attempts of working people to organize, including the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
9. Notice the famous strikes covered in this period, including businesses having their own private army (wow!) and what government did
1. Notice the term the New South
2. Examine the South’s industries, poverty, and agriculture (especially the crop-lien system)
3. Notice
what happened to African Americans after
1890
Caution: notice the dates are in the
1890s and things change from what had happened in some areas of the South
during Reconstruction and in the years after 1877 to 1890. For example, the information on Wilmington, North
Carolina shows you that in some areas African Americans both voted and held
office.
Notice: the Plessy case, voting, Jim
Crow, the Wilmington mob attack, and what lynching was.
If you disbelieve any of those sections of the textbook, use the Videos I have
added to Chapter 17 and the optional primaries in that chapter.
4. Notice the 2 quite different African American leaders: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
1. Notice the new west that is between the Mississippi and the Rockies
2. Notice the ways people make a living and how hard it is.
3. Notice what happens to women, both negatively and positively.
4. Notice
what happens to Native Americans and how they are treated in the Dawes
Severalty Act.
Tip: .Severalty means to own property as an
individual. This is the opposite of how Native Americans owned property—they
owned it as a tribe and they had the right to use the land but not cut it or
destroy it. This is a move to destroy the tribal structure. Further, as your
textbook adds, this policy resulted in the loss of 86 million of their prior 130
million acres.
5. Notice
the brief introduction to the Populists, the rise of the farmers in opposition
to this destruction new world.
Tip: .Since the time
of Jefferson, the farmers had been considered the foundation of the American
republic where people could support themselves and therefore vote for
themselves and the general welfare, not just vote as a boss might demand.
Reminder: we do not have the secret ballot yet. If you want confirmation, click
on the Smithsonian’s
link on the vote that failed and the rise of the secret ballot
1. Notice urbanization and how it spreads across the nation, including technologies, leisure, and the dangers such as the tenement.
2. Notice the “new immigration” and their traits. Also notice the first federal law to block a immigrant group—the Chinese Exclusion Act.
3. Notice Darwinism and—the creation of Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin—Social Darwinism. Also notice the counter voices of Lester Frank Ward—with more coming after 1900.
4.
Notice in general bossism, partisan politics and
local and national levels, and corruption. Notice the Pendleton Act for reform
of government jobs (civil service)
Tip: You will not
have to recognize each of these presidencies in what has been called an era
where the voters couldn’t tell the difference in their policies.
5. Notice the railroads and the Interstate Commerce Commission—a federal version of a method the farmers had gotten passed at the state level.
Tip: The Constitution makes Congress the power when it comes to commerce between states and railroads—to be of use—would have to cross between states. This commission form of government will become the model for regulation after 1900.
6. Notice the farmers’ problems and how they overlap with currency.
· Debtors want inflation—whether it is with more paper money or by coining a cheaper metal than gold (in other words, silver).
· Creditors want deflation—and they got what they wanted.
7. Notice the Farmers Alliance and how it became a 3rd party as the Populists and notice both the election of 1892 and the one in 1896.
1. Notice Alfred Thayer Mahon and what he observes.
2.
Notice Alaska and Hawaii and why the imperialism
in the Pacific.
Tip: Remember your
U.S. History I course. Empire means gaining territory that is a colony, one
whose people do not have the same rights as the mother country. The American
Revolution was against being a colony
of Great Britain.
3.
Notice the lead up the Spanish-American War, in
brief the war itself, and what the United States gets as colonies.
Caution: With Cuba use your index to
make sure you notice what both of these say:
· The Teller Amendment to the war declaration
· The Platt Amendment that eventually ends up as an amendment to the new Cuban Constitution and in a treaty (That section is not clearly written in the textbook but I can provide a copy of a specific source if anyone wants to see it.) Tip: One of its issues is a place called Guantanamo Bay.
4. Notice these basics of the war, including the Rough Riders and John Hay’s famous line.
5. Notice the Filipino resistance and the final outcome.
6. Notice the American Anti-Imperialist League.
7. Notice the Open Door policy and what it is.
8. After the assassination of William McKinley, notice the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican)
9. Notice the foreign policies of his successors: William Howard Taft (a Republican) and Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat).
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