Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Bonus Army (1st and 2nd) Fourteen Points Palmer raids Schlieffen Plan Tulsa Massacre Works Progress Administration

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Ellis Island Interstate Commerce Commission Lewis Hine National American Women’s Suffrage Association Teller Amendment Treaty of Paris (1898)

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Agricultural Adjustment Agency fireside chats Margaret Sanger Scopes Trial Trench warfare War Guilt Clause

Learning is a change in knowledge, skill, of understanding that results from instruction or which of the following? A. physical growth B. experience  C. maturation D. biological processes

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. America First Archibald Cox Buddhist protests Executive Order 9066 Fannie Lou Hamer Francis Gary Powers George Kennan Hot Line Agreement Ten Point Program The Feminine Mystique

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Court packing Election of 1928 Glass-Steagall Act Marcus Garvey Sedition Act Wellington House

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Court packing Election of 1928 Glass-Steagall Act Marcus Garvey Sedition Act Wellington House

Choose ONE of the following terms and write a short essay (1-2 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences) using information from readings, textbook materials, professor lectures, and author videos that clearly identifies and explains the term AND gives the significance in proper historical context. Vague or overly brief essays without noted significance cannot receive more than half credit. Chinese Exclusion Act deLome letter Frederick Jackson Turner Hull House Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Upton Sinclair

In a well-considered long essay (4-5 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences), respond to ONE of the following prompts.  Provide as much detail as you remember from lectures, readings, and online materials in support of your answer.  Be sure to respond to the entire question, as each have multiple parts.  Please note which question you are responding to in your answer (simply putting #1, #2, etc. is fine)   1. Explain the U.S. transition from isolationism to imperialism during the 1890s. What gave rise to the “New Manifest Destiny” philosophy? Explain the U.S. involvement in Hawaii, Cuba, and the Philippines in relation to the New Manifest Destiny and offer your assessment of the impact of this period on America’s role in world affairs.   2. Describe the Progressive Movement and its objectives, including political reform, worker protections, consumer protections, and so on. How do Theodore Roosevelt’s 3 Cs embody the Progressive Movement and were they successful?   3. How did World War I alter the home front? Discuss the economy, labor, production, and how the government became involved in all of these. How did the government “educate” every day Americans on the war, what they could do to contribute, and who the enemy was? In an effort to spread democracy, how did the United States curtail that democracy and freedom at home for some?   4. Evaluate the response of FDR’s administration to the Great Depression, and compare his actions to those of Herbert Hoover. Why is it incorrect to say that FDR did everything and Hoover did nothing? Why is FDR considered to be among the best, most emulated presidents in US history and does he deserve this credit? Why or why not? Be sure discuss the major elements of the New Deal, assessing the successes and failures of the New Deal programs.

In a well-considered long essay (4-5 full, robust paragraphs with a paragraph defined as at least 5 sentences), respond to ONE of the following prompts.  Provide as much detail as you remember from lectures, readings, and online materials in support of your answer.  Be sure to respond to the entire question, as each have multiple parts.  Please note which question you are responding to in your answer (simply putting #1, #2, etc. is fine)   1. Discuss the U.S. response to the developing crises in Europe from 1939 through 1941. Why do most Americans want to remain out of the war and what is their justification? What arguments do critics of America’s official isolationist/neutral policy make and are they convincing? What factors bring the U.S. closer and closer to war?   2. How did the U.S. government transition from World War II into the Cold War? This could be how soldiers are brought home as well as foundations for how the U.S. responded to the perceived threat of communism.   3. John F. Kennedy is a much-beloved president for many who helped advance Black civil rights and stood up to the communists. Discuss this legacy and whether he deserves that credit. Evaluate Kennedy’s perception of himself as a strong, masculine, “Cold warrior,” as well as devoted husband and father.   4. Describe the growing role that media played in the 1960s in terms of the fight for civil rights and the Vietnam War. How did media change and/or shape public opinion on these monumental events in American history and how might they have played out differently without the constant television coverage?   5. Briefly describe the many movements going on in the 1960s that made up that decade (feel free to bleed into the 1970s if you so choose). How did activism in the 1960s lead to polarization and the rise of the conservative revolution and the New Right? How do we see these differing positions on various issues culminate in the Reagan Coalition?