Study Guide 1
HIST 17C S17
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Expect to be tested on the following terms and ideas:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Progressive Era
Reform Darwinism
Jane Addams
John Muir
“square deal,”
Muckraking
The Jungle
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Muller v. Oregon, 1908
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
W.E.B. DuBois
Nativism
Jim Crow laws
Margaret Sanger
Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW or Wobblies)
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Eugene V. Debs
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
Trench warfare
Selective Service Act
John “Black Jack” Pershing
American Expeditionary Force
(AEF)
Paris Peace Conference
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Bolshevism
Alice Paul
Carrie Chapman Catt
Amendment to the US Constitution
Electoral College
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Teapot Dome Affair
Dawes Plan
Welfare Capitalism
Mass production
The Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
The following essays prompts are samples of what may appear on the first midterm. Each is worth 25 points.
In order to earn all points, your answer must be written in a complete and well thought-out essay.
1. Explain the concept of ‘reform Darwinism’ and why Progressives believed it to be important. (10
points).Identify two specific successes of the Progressive movement and explain how they were
successful (5 points). Name two preeminent African Americans of the era, and explain how each
perceived black-white relations in America of the early twentieth century (10 points).
2. Discuss President Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude toward and involvement in building the Panama
Canal. Include in your answer the other parties involved, and the dollar amounts that changed hands.
(20 points). How did the Roosevelt Corollary justify the U.S. purchase of the land for the Panama
Canal? (5 points).
3. Before it entered World War I, what was the attitude of the U.S. government to the war in Europe, and
why did it resist getting involved? (10 points). Name at least two events contributed to a change of
attitude and policy in the U.S.? (10 points). What is your opinion of the military tactics that John J.
Pershing utilized for the AEF in France? (5 points).