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Midterm Review Materials   Below is a sample midterm, given during the Fall 1991 semester.

FALL 1991 MID-TERM EXAMINATION (sample)
"Forfeited Rights" theory
Radicals
The "Lost Cause"
"The New South" - Henry Grady
Constitutional Amendments, 13th, 14th, 15th
"Grandfather Clause" - 1898
"Jim Crow" laws
"Great American Desert" / "The Garden"
Frederick J. Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
"Battle" of Wounded Knee - 1890
Dawes Severalty Act - 1887
Laissez Faire
 Credit Mobilier
"Bloody Shirt"
Mugwumps
"Robber Barons"
The Trust - Standard Oil, 1879
Social Darwinism
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
The Dillingham Commission
The Anglo-Saxon myth
Immigration Restriction League
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP
Marcus Garvey
The Grange
The "Agrarian myth"
Omaha Platform - 1892
Social Gospel
Social Settlements
National Municipal League
Muckraking
Alfred Thayer Mahan
"The March of the Flag" - 1898
Insular Cases
"Manifest Destiny"
"True Womanhood"
Social feminists
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Essays (Fall, 1991)
I. (Please write ONE (1) essay from the choices below)
1. In the half-century following the end of the Civil War (1865-1915) how effectively and equitably were African-Americans treated? Was steady progress made toward the realization of full citizenship rights or rather did something closer to a virtual reenslavement develop? What views regarding the condition of American blacks were expressed by leaders such as W.E.B.
DuBois, Marcus Garvey, and Booker T. Washington?

2. The period from the late 1870s to World War I could be and has been characterized as a time of "response to industrialism." Compare and contrast the responses of urban workers, farmers, and middle-class reformers to problems raised by industrialization. Assess the extent to which each group's response resulted in satisfactory solutions to the problems.

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