TEST 1
 

 Because the history of the United States was shaped and influenced to a large degree by the geography of the continent, it is imperative that students know the basic details of United States geography. Therefore the student will be required to take a geography map test.

The multiple-choice map test will be taken in the Testing Center on an answer sheet provided by the Testing Center.

The map test will be the first test taken in this course and must be completed by the deadline date listed in the syllabus. Below is a practice map.

Atlas maps containing all of the features the student will need to identify are found in the textbook, America Past and Present, Volume 2, (eighth edition.)

The test will specify thirty (30) of the following and ask the student to locate them on a map:

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TEST 2

HIST 1302 Unit I:  Age of Exploitation

Overview: The growing industrial revolution of the late 19th century stretched the social fabric of this country to the breaking point, but, beginning first with rural reform, farmers attempted to control the railroads and adapt to capitalist farming.  They were joined by industrial workers who, like the farmers, however, did not meet with immediate success.  Nonetheless, by the 1890s, a new spirit of realism allied to new developments in religious thought encouraged all Americans first to confront the problems of the industrial revolution's exploitation, and then to reform them.  Populism, the highest example of rural reform, failed in 1896, but progressivism had been born.

1. Describe the factors influencing the Second Industrial Revolution in America.
2. Show how the railroads advanced the Industrial Revolution.
3. Give examples of favorable government policy that allowed industrialization to proceed.
4. Show how inventions affected the American Industrial Revolution.
5. Describe the role of capital as it fueled the American industrial revolution.
6. Describe the early problems in American industrialization and what steps were taken to address them.
7. Recount the influence of industrialization on American political life, society, and American foreign policy.
 8. Characterize the “new immigration” and identify factors that stimulated it.
 9. Show the impact of “new immigration” on Europe.
10. Show the impact of “new immigration” on the United States.
11. Identify the main ideas and programs of the rural reform movement.
12. Describe the economic realities facing the late nineteenth century farmers.
13. Give examples of railroad abuses to which the farmers objected.
14. Explain how and why the rural reformers attempted to control the railroads.
15. Give examples of farmers' attempts to adapt to capitalist farming.
16. Describe the economic realities facing the industrial workers in the late19th century.
17. Describe the Knights of Labor in terms of goals, organization, membership and attitude towards striking.
18. Describe what happened at the Haymarket Riot in 1886 and what resulted from it.
19. Describe the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in terms of its goals, organization, membership and attitude towards striking.
20. Describe what happened at the Pullman Strike and what resulted from it.
21. Show how the art and architecture of the gilded age reflected its realism and adapted to the industrial revolution.
22. Describe Jane Addams’ work in the settlement house movement and describe how she viewed such problems as heavy drinking, gambling, long working hours, etc.
23. Describe the main ideas of the Social Gospel and explain how these ideas helped the reform impulse.
24. Describe the relationship between the Social Gospel and socialism and between the Social Gospel and the labor unions.
25. Explain how and why women entered the professions and what resulted.
26. Show how the science of home economics devalued the female craft tradition.
27. Discuss work trends among women of the period.
28. Show how and why women ended up with “more work for Mother.”
29. Describe the formation of the People's party (populists).
30. Describe the major planks of the 1892 Omaha platform of the populists.
31. Tell how Bryan captured the Democratic nomination in 1896 and how the populists reacted.
32. Explain the failure of populism to win the national election in 1896.

From Ranching in the late 19th century
33. Show the stages by which cattle reached eastern markets as beef.
34. Characterize the cowboy and his life.

From Chicago Style
35. Identify the main styles of pre-Civil War America.
36. Describe the Chicago School of architecture and give examples.

From Building the Subways
37. Describe the early attempts to use ghost acreage to transport people.
38. Show how subways were built and what other methods were used to transport people.
39. Identify the problems mass transit faces today.

Machines of the Second Industrial Revolution
40. Show how bicycles are representative of he Second Industrial Revolution.
41. Describe developments in building sewing machines.
42. Describe developments in building washing machines and account for their slow development.

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TEST 3

HIST 1302 Unit II: Development of Progressivism in Domestic and Foreign Policy

Overview:  The torch of reform passed to the urban reformers.  Known as Progressivism, new principles inspired the career of Theodore Roosevelt, but liberal Republicans like Roosevelt were ignored by his successor, Taft, and in the crucial election of 1912, bolted the Republican party to return (if they ever did) as a discredited minority.   The Progressive impulse passed to the Democrats under Wilson who won in 1912.  However, this reform took place against a background of increasing violence towards blacks who nonetheless developed their own social consciousness which peaked in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's.  The flowering of American jazz as represented by Armstrong and Ellington is merely one example of this outpouring of black creative talent.
     In the realm of Progressive foreign policy, the United States was recognized as a world power only with her decisive defeat of Spain in 1898 and her acquisition of an empire.   To deal with this growing international role, Americans developed three forms of foreign policy that they practiced mostly in Latin America and the Far East.   When Europe exploded in World War I, however, Americans turned their attention to this theater.   Wilson tried to remain neutral, but, as the president steadily increased the definition of neutrality, the Germans discovered they could no longer abide by his rules, and in 1917, began unrestricted submarine warfare which eventually caused the United Sates to enter the conflict.   Wilson refused to recognize that the national security of this country and Europe were imperiled by Germany; instead, he developed a peace program, the 14 points, which grew out of the American experience but which the Europeans regarded as unworkable.   The Treaty of Versailles that resulted was, therefore, a flawed peace, and even with revisions proposed by Lodge, the Treaty could not pass the American Senate. 

1. Describe the main beliefs of the urban reformers and distinguish them from the beliefs of the rural reformers.
2. Characterize Progressivism.
3. Explain what happened in the Northern Securities Case and its significance.
4. Describe Roosevelt’s policies of conservation.
5. Discuss the Anthracite coal strike, what resulted, and what new principles were established.
6. Evaluate the achievements of the Roosevelt presidency.
7. Tell what three things led to a break between the progressive wing of the Republican party and President Taft.
8. Explain what happened in both the Democratic and Republican parties in the election of 1912, and assess its long term importance.
9. Explain what led Wilson to enact the Underwood tariff, show how the tariff was innovative, and show why it did not function as planned.
10. Explain the provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act.
11. Describe why the Federal Reserve Act was needed and how it functioned.
12. Contrast Booker T. Washington’s and W.E.B. DuBois’ views on how to aid blacks in America.
13. Distinguish blues from the spirituals.
14. Distinguish the music of Louis Armstrong from that of Duke Ellington and describe how both were part of the Harlem Renaissance.
15. Identify the factors that created a new role for the United States in foreign affairs.
16. Explain why Americans quickly gave up the status of formal colony holder  (imperialism).
17. Explain how the War of 1898 caused Europeans powers to reevaluate the United States.
18. Tell why Britain increasingly sought American friendship and what obstacles she faced.
19. Characterize Roosevelt’s view of the American role in foreign affairs.
20. Explain how and why dollar diplomacy came into being and assess its success.
21. Explain what missionary diplomacy is and assess its success.
22. Explain how and why Roosevelt acted in the Panama Canal episode.
23. Identify the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, tell when it arose, and what problems were associated with it.
24. Describe what happened in Taft’s intervention into Nicaragua and what resulted from it.
25. Explain how Wilson acted towards Mexico, why and with what results.
26. Describe the two parts of the Open Door policy and be able to explain why it was dangerous.
27. Identify the three main reasons for American entry into World War I.
28. Show why the United States found itself sympathetic to the allies and hostile to Germany.
29. Show how and to what extent Germany threatened American security.
30. Explain the “Merchants of death” theory and show why it is inaccurate.
31. Explain why Britain borrowed more than Germany.
32. Explain why Germany was willing to risk war with the United States.
33. Explain how and why Wilson went to war in April, 1917.
34. Tell what were the three main positions on the treaty of Versailles and explain each.
35. Tell what the most important of the 14 points were.
36. Tell what the Europeans thought of these 14 points.
37. Describe how Wilson was in a weakened position when he arrived to write the treaty.
38. Describe how the Treaty of Versailles treated Germany.
39. Explain Lodge’s objections to the treaty and especially to Article X.

From The Ash Can School of Painting
40. Identify what makes the Ash Can School of painting new.

From the Model T and the Moving Production Line
41. Show how Armour changed the meat packing industry.
42. Show how Ford changed American automobile production.

From Background to World War I
43. Show why Britain saw Germany as a threat and how she reacted.
44. Describe how the Balkan problem helped cause World War I.
45. Describe the von Schlieffen Plan and how it was utilized

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TEST 4

 HIST 1302  Unit III: Depression, the New Deal, and War

Overview:  The 1920s was an age of transition in which the country went from being predominantly rural to mostly urban.   This fact sparked a rural attack upon the city which nonetheless developed a new urban culture. This took place against the background of an economic boom, but this boom was deeply flawed, and when it began to level off in 1927, profits were pumped into the stock market which became bloated.   When the inevitable rectification of the market occurred in the Crash of 1929, a severe credit contraction was produced which eventually became the Great Depression.   This Depression shook the foundations of American optimism and faith in law, producing demagogues from the political right, but while much of Europe succumbed to this right wing pressure, the United States instead elected FDR.  His first New Deal's relief programs put a floor under the depression to keep it from getting worse, but the recovery programs failed to cure it.  Moreover, between 1937 and 38, the powerful New Deal coalition collapsed as war loomed in Europe.   World War II finally cured the Depression as full employment was achieved, but at a horrendous cost in life and treasure.
     Attempting to deal with her new role as world leader, the United States in the 1920s pursued a foreign policy that decreased our ability to defend ourselves while antagonizing future opponents.  As the Depression worsened, disillusioned Americans tried to write legislation which would keep us out of all foreign wars, but this neutrality legislation failed to work, especially as Americans came to see just how much of a threat Hitler's Germany was.   As a result, when war broke out in 1939, Americans aided Britain short of war, and eventually entered World War II after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.  We prosecuted this war in an uneasy coalition that included Britain and the Soviet Union.  Decisions made during the war strained this "marriage of convenience" to the breaking point, and when the alliance dissolved in 1945, the former allies slid into the Cold War.

1. Give examples of the rural attack upon the city.
2. Give examples of the new urban culture that developed during the 1920s.
3. Explain how the Great War helped fuel the boom of the twenties.
4. Characterize the boom of the 1920s.
5. Show how the automobile industry in the 1920s affected the American economy and society.
6. Show how the American economy changed in the 1920s.
7. Recognize major economic problems that lurked beneath the surface of the boom.
8. Account for the failure of the recovery program advanced by Hoover.
9. Show how the New Deal was the same as or different from Progressivism.
10. Describe Al Smith's role in Democratic party politics of the 1920s.
11. Describe Roosevelt's New Deal coalition and account for its appearance.
12. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's approach to the depression.
13. Identify programs designed to provide relief and evaluate their success.
14. Identify programs designed to produce recovery from the depression and evaluate their success.
15. Show how the New Deal affected farmers.
16. Show how businessmen benefited from the New Deal.
17. Show how the New Deal affected minorities.
18. Show how the New Deal affected women.
19. Tell why Roosevelt moved to the left in the second New Deal (1935) and give examples of this change.
20. Tell what things led to the political death of the New Deal.
21. Describe the major criticisms of the New Deal.
22. Explain why the United States and our allies invaded Russia in 1918, and what resulted.
23. Explain what agreements the Washington Armaments conference produced.
24. Explain the difference between a discretionary and an impartial embargo and explain which one was in the Neutrality act.
25. Show how the Neutrality Act of 1935 incorporated the "lessons" of American entry into WW I.
26. Describe Roosevelt's selective use of the Neutrality Act.
27. Identify examples of American efforts to aid Britain short of war.
28. Explain what coalition diplomacy was in World War II and evaluate its success.
29. Explain how British views differed from those of the United States in World War II strategy.
30. Identify Stalin's objections to the strategy of the western allies.
31. Discuss the results of the Yalta conference, and explain why the United States agreed to its provisions.
32. Explain the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
33. Describe the rules of the Cold War confrontation.
34. Tell what the Truman Doctrine was, what it was designed to do, and how it misconstrued the ideas on containment as set forth by Kennan.
35. Explain what the Marshall Plan was, how it was offered, and how it passed Congress.
36. Discuss the debate about the nature of the Cold War.

From The Homefront in World War II.
37. Show how the American economy changed to prosecute WW II.
38. Give examples of government efforts to involve the civilian population in the war effort.
39. Give examples of how the American society changed in WW II.

From American art in the 1920s and 1930s
40. show how the art movement known as Abstraction changed American art.
41. Give examples of the new social realism painting of the 1930s.
42. Give examples of Abstract Impressionism and how it reflected postwar feat and despair.

From the Russian Revolution and its Aftermath
43. Show how Lenin introduced orthodox Communist views in Russia and what resulted.
44. Distinguish between Lenin and Stalin.
45. Show why collectivization of agriculture began and what it produced.

From Technology and the American Farm
46. Show technological improvement in growing cotton.
47. Show technological improvement in the dairy industry.

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TEST 5

HIST 1302  Unit IV: Cold War and Domestic Stalemate

Overview:   The superpower conflict heated up in Korea, so much so that, following the death of Stalin in 1953, Eisenhower moved to unmilitarize the Cold War.  The embarrassment of Sputnik and the election of John Kennedy, however, ushered in a dangerous period of instability that culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. So close did both powers come to World War III that an uneasy détente ensued.
     The domestic stalemate that had begun with the collapse of the New Deal coalition continued after the war when neither Truman, Eisenhower, nor Kennedy could budge Congress significantly.  Major reform consequently languished.  Moreover, with the legislative process stalemated, McCarthy could launch his witch-hunts with impunity, while civil rights leaders were forced to use the court system, rather than Congress, for speedy redress of grievances.  Johnson broke the legislative logjam, producing the Great Society programs, but the growing American involvement in Vietnam and the Great Society programs destroyed the New Deal coalition. Worse, a cumbersome Congress was increasingly ignored by Nixon, who chose to defy not only the legislative branch but the law itself in Watergate.  That scandal dramatically changed the balance of power between the Congress and the executive branch..  The Reagan revolution changed the debate over the role of the federal government just as the Third Industrial Revolution created major changes in American society. Complicating matters was the arrival of the Third Industrial Revolution, the so-called information revolution, and the Fourth Great Awakening.

1. Explain the concept of containment and give examples of its use.
2. Discuss why the Berlin airlift occurred and what resulted.
3. Discuss the formation of NATO.
4. Discuss NSC 68 and its implications
5. Discuss the "fall of China" in 1949.
6. Describe the American role in the Korean war.
7. Describe Eisenhower's foreign policy.
8. Explain what happened in the Suez Crisis of 1956 and what resulted from it.
9. Explain how Sputnik contributed to the American fear of a missile crisis and missile gap.
10. Describe the Cuban missile crisis and its results.
11. Describe the factors that made détente possible.
12. Describe the Nixon Doctrine.
13. Explain why the postwar political stalemate occurred.
14. Describe the Truman stalemate
15. Show how Eisenhower's presidency came about and how it reflected the political stalemate.
16. Characterize the Second Great Red Scare.
17. Explain the popularity of Senator Joe McCarthy.
18. Show the long-term effects of McCarthyism.
19. Describe developments in civil rights in the post World War II period, especially the role of the Supreme Court
20. Tell who Martin Luther King was, explain his philosophy of civil rights, and briefly describe his career.
21. Describe the development of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
22. Describe the major developments in economic life during the fifties.
23. Show what developments made suburbs affordable for the middle class in the 1950s.
24. Identify the main Great Society Programs.
25. Show how the War on Poverty impacted American society and the New Deal coalition, and show why it failed.
26. Explain why the Geneva accords of 1954 were necessary and what the main provisions of these accords were.
27. Describe John Kennedy's approach to government and show how it affected his conduct in Vietnam.
28. Identify the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and explain how and why it passed.
29. Describe Johnson's rationale for "Americanizing" the war.
30. Tell the major criticisms of the war in Vietnam.
31. Explain why Nixon "Vietnamized" the war.
32. Describe the Cambodia incursion and who its effects.
33. Describe Nixon’s social programs.
34. Show how Watergate developed out of trends in American history and show how it is different from previous scandals.
35. Explain how and why the "cover-up" began in the Watergate scandals.
36. Tell why Nixon taped conversations in the White House, when these tapes were discovered,  and explain the crucial role these tapes played in the Watergate scandals.
37. Tell what three articles of impeachment were approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
38. Describe the Reagan revolution and its effects.
39. Show how immigration changed in the Third Industrial Revolution.
40. Describe the economy of the Third Industrial Revolution.
41. Describe the social impact of the Third Industrial Revolution.
42. Describe the political impact of the Third Industrial Revolution.
43. Show how the Third Industrial Revolution impacted foreign affairs.

    From The Middle East and the End of the Cold War
    44. Explain the problems with human rights in the Middle East.
    44. Explain the difference between realists and globalists on Israel.
    45. Show why Saddam attacked Kuwait and what resulted.

    The Fight Against Polio

    46. Explain why Americans found polio so frightening and what they did about it.
    47. Show how the fight over which vaccine to use exposed rifts in the American scientific community.

HIST 1302 Book review
 

The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with a major work in the historiography of European history and have you analyze it for its thesis, proof, and relationship to the online textbook.   The report must be 1500 words in length and typed or word processed, and it must be handed in by the date specified in the course calendar.  It will be marked either OK for credit or you will be told what you need to do to make it OK for credit and will then have until the date specified in the course calendar for making corrections.

Part I

In this part of the report, you will identify the author's hypothesis.  An hypothesis is a statement capable of proof.   Thus the statement, "X maintains the Cold War resulted from an abrupt shift in policy under Truman" is an hypothesis, while "This book is about Truman and the Cold War" is not.   You will want to consult the introduction and conclusion of the book where the author most frequently expresses his/her hypothesis succinctly.  You will need to write a paragraph or so explaining the hypothesis in all its complexity.

Part II

In this part you will give several examples of how the author substantiates his/her hypothesis.  What proof does he/she put forward?  Choose examples carefully to show how the author validates the hypothesis.

Part III

In this part you will determine whether you are persuaded by the author's argument.  Using the examples from Part II, you will determine whether they in fact validate the hypothesis.  Is there any other way of interpreting the data?  Why or why not?  Is the data complete?  Remember to challenge the author to prove every point he/she makes.

Part IV

In this part you will evaluate sources and footnotes.   Are the footnotes accurate and to the point?  What sources has the author consulted?  Are both sides of the conflict represented to the same degree, or is the author relying too heavily on only one set of sources?

Part V

In this part you will compare the author's interpretation in the book you have chosen to similar material in the textbook.   Do the online textbook and your author agree?   Why or why not?

Remember to cite all references to the book you are reporting on and to the textbook.  Page numbers in parenthesis will be sufficient citation.  In determining whether the report is OK for credit, I will consider whether it follows standard rules of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.  Feel free to consult with me if you have questions about this project.

Books: The following books, all of which are found in the ACC libraries and most are available in the UT and Austin Public libraries, may be read for the analytical book review.  Tey are pre-approved.If you wish to substitute another book for one of these titles, YOU MUST RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTOR'S PRIOR APPROVAL.

BOOK LIST FOR 1302
David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy
Stephen Ambrose, Nixon
Lloyd Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective
David Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61
Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women During World War II
Ralph Andrist, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians
Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat; Courtship in Twentieth Century America
James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers,1894-1922
Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900
Michael Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
Edward Berlin, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
Larry Berman, Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam
William Berman, William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist
Alison Bernstein, American Indians and World War II
Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire; The History of Gay Men and Women in WW II
Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63
Margaret Bixler, Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navaho Code Talkers of World War II
Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
James G Blight and David Welch, On the Brink, Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and its Critics
Robert R. Bowie, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Arnold Brackman, Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
H. W. Brands, Cold Warriors
H. W. Brands, Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Robert Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
Robert Burk, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician
Anne Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-1890
Joe Carr, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas
Mina Carson, Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885- 1930
J.W. Chambers, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the KKK
N.H. Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
Mark Clodfelter, Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
Jean Cole, Women Pilots of World War II
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
Ruth Schwartz Cowen, A Social History of American Technology
Alfred Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: the Influenza of 1918
Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
M.W. Davis, Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870- 1930
Linda Ditmar, From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and Sputnik
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
Carol Felsenthal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Francis Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Richard Fried, Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy Era in Perspective
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment
Mario Garcia, Mexican Americans; Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960
Raymond Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation
John Garraty, The Great Depression
Haim Genizi, America's Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons, 1945-52
Marc Gilbert, Tet Offensive
Ray Ginger, Six Days or Forever? Tennessee vs. John Scopes
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
David Goldfield, Promised Land, The South Since 1945
Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States
James Gregory, American Exodus, Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
Richard Griswold del Castillo, La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to Present
Max Hastings, The Korean War
Samuel Hays, Beauty, Health and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States,1955-85
George Herring, America’s Longest War: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
Barbara Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition
Michael Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry Truman and the Origins of the National Security State
Nathan Huggins, Harlem Renaissance
Mary Ann Humphrey, My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, WW II to the present
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
John Jakle, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night
Jenna Wiseman Joselit, Our Gang
Lawrence Kaplan, NATO and the United States, The Enduring Alliance
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work
Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915
Warren Kimball, The Most Unsorted Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1940
Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: A History of Brown vs. Board of Education
Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Gina Kolata, The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Kupchan, Charles, The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitis of the Twenty-First Century
Mark Landis, Joseph McCarthy: The Politics of Chaos
Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: the Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Judith Leavith, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
Robert Leckie, Conflict: the History of the Korean War
Wm. M LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
Robert S. Litwak, Detente and the Nixon Doctrine
Harold Livesay, Samuel Gompers & Organized Labor in America
C.A. MacDonald, Korea: The War Before Vietnam
William Manchester, The American Caesar
Manning Marable, W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat
Carole Marks, Farewell, We’re Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration
Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Christopher Matthews, Kennedy, Nixon and the Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America
Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife: the Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Elaine May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
Elaine May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Francis MacDonald, Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front
Robert MacElvaine, The Great Depression
David McBride, From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900
Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic
John Patrick McDowell, The Social Gospel in the South
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Marian Morton, Emma Goldman and the American Left
Robert Murray, The Harding Era
Donald Neff, Warriors at Suez
Humbert Nelli, The Business of Crime: Italians & Syndicate Crime in the US
Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign against the Jews
John Newhouse, Cold Dawn
Daniel Novak, The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Emancipation
James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, Where the Dominos Fell, America and Vietnam, 1945- 1990
Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto
F.D. Pasley, Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man
James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty 1900-1985
Thomas G. Patterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War
Gordon Prange, At Dawn We Slept
Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
Julie Leininger Pycior, LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power
Stephen Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America
Arnold Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W.E. B DuBois
William Rehnquist, All Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese-Americans
David Rosner, Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in 20thc America
E.M. Rudwick, W.E.B. DuBois: Propogandist of Negro Protest
John Gerard Ruggie, Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
Edward & Frederick Schapmeier, Dirksen of Illinois
Lois Scharf, Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism
Robert Schulzinger, Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy
Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies: All Black Combat Squadrons of WW II
Glenn Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban Treaty
David Shannon, Between Wars
Neil Shehhan, A Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
David Shi, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980
Douglas Smith, The New Deal in the Urban South
Donald Smythe, Pershing: General of the Armies
Dorothy Schneider, Into The Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I
John Stilgoe, Borderland: The Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1930
Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The  Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America
Robert Snyder. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Gerald Sorin, Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
Robert Strong, Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of Foreign Policy
Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States 1900-1930
Richard Thornton, The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping of American Foreign Policy
Ronald Tobery, Technology as Freedom; the New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home
Kathleen Turner, Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
Irwin Unger, The Movement: A History of the American New Left, 1959-72
Adam Ulam, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II
Robert Utley, Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian
Brian Van de Mark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
Jill Watts, God, Harlem U.S,A,: The Father Divine Story
George Ernest Webb, The Evolution Controversy in America
Arthur & Lila Weinberg, Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel
Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War
William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
Randall Woods, Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for Order
David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust
Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
Neil Wynn, From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society
Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-90
Nancy Zarroulis & G. Sullivan, Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975
Robert Zieger, American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985

HIST 1302(PCM) Sample Test Questions

Sample questions

Almost all questions used in the tests for this course are the EXCEPT type question that asks you to identify the wrong answer out of five choices. This type of question is sued to test for understanding of a multiple causes or outcomes. For example, Learning Objective 2 from Unit I asks about the railroads.  Thus the question might read:

1. The railroads advanced the Industrial Revolution in ALL the following ways EXCEPT:

a. Railroads overcame problems of distance in a country as big as the United States.
b. Railroads were heavily taxed to pay for other internal improvements like roads.
c. Railroads helped create a national market that in turn called forth increasing mass production.

d.Railroads helped bring in population to inhabit the Great Plains area.

e.Railroads invented modern business practices like salaried managers and cost accounting.

The correct answer is “B” since railroads were not heavily taxed.  This information is available in the chapter on the Second Industrial Revolution.

Another example is from Learning Objective 3 in Unit I that asks about favorable government policy.

2. ALL the following are examples of government policy which made industrialization easier EXCEPT:

         a. grants of land
         b. Army corps of engineers’ help in building canals, harbors, etc.
         c. open immigration policy
         d. low tariffs
         e. agriculture was directly subsidized by agricultural research in colleges.

The correct answer is “D” since tariffs were kept high.  See the Second Industrial Revolution chapter.
 

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