Final Exam Study Guide

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The Final Exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 10 at 7:50 a.m. The exam covers everything we have studied since the midterm, including lectures, readings, class discussions, and films used in class. You have two options for the exam. The first (which is the default) is to answer fifty multiple-choice questions. The second is to take an essay exam. If you decide to take the essay exam, you must notify me in writing or via email (mbecker@ilstu.edu) by the last class period (December 5).

We will have a review session on the last day of class (Friday, December 5). You may also use the Netform class discussion group to discuss material you do not understand. If you have granted me permission, I will post your grade to the web page after the exam. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at mbecker@ilstu.edu.

For those of you who decide to take the essay exam, one of the following four questions will appear on the exam. Please bring a blue examination book in which to write your answer.

1. Immigration has been a major theme throughout United States history. How has the role of immigrants in society changed over time. How have federal policy and popular reactions to immigrants changed over time? What impact does immigration have on the United States economy?
2. During the twentieth century, the United States has become a global power. How did this happen? What have been the benefits and consequences of this development? What impact has this rise to power had on the underdeveloped third world?
3. We have studied in class the struggles of African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, women and students to gain a larger role in society. Compare the struggles of two of these groups. What were their demands? Do you think they were justified in making these demands? How successful were they in achieving their goals? Be sure to touch on points of agreement and disagreement between the two groups, and any influences the groups may have had on each other's struggles.
4. Many people believe that the growth of labor unions in the United States resulted in a large middle class, something which is rare in many other countries. Do you agree that organized labor is responsible for ending poverty for many people? If so, explain how this happened. If not, who deserves credit for this achievement? In either case, indicate how serious an issue you believe poverty continues to be in this country and what can be done to eradicate the last vestiges of this problem.

Terms

There are the terms from Norton, A People and A Nation since the midterm exam. Be sure that you are able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of these terms.

Welfare capitalism
Teapot Dome scandal
Bureau of Indian Affairs
League of Women Voters
The Federal Highway Act
The Man Nobody Knows
Marcus Garvey
Alice Paul
Flapper
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The "nation-origins" system
The Scopes Trial
Prohibition
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Black Thursday

Hoovervilles
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Federal Farm Board
National Bank Holiday
First Hundred Days
"Okies"
Dust Bowl
Father Charles Coughlin
Huey Long
Second New Deal
Works Progress Administration
Federal Writers' Project
Rural Electrification Administration
Social Security Act
John Collier
Indian Reorganization Act

Isolationist
Good Neighbor Policy
César Augusto Sandino
General Anastasio Somoza
Fulgencio Batista
Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Selective Training and Service Act

Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Internment of Japanese-Americans
Bracero program
Zoot-suit riot
Rosie the Riveter

Dixiecrats
Thurgood Marshall
Alien Registration (Smith) Act
Alger Hiss Trial
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Nixon's "Checkers" speech
Adlai Stevenson
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Montgomery bus boycott
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

George F. Kennan
"Iron curtain" speech
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Mao Zedong
Domino theory
Bay of Pigs
Carter's human rights policy
Carter Doctrine

Baby boom
Planned obsolescence
Interstate Highway Defense System
Megalopolis
Dr. Benjamin Spock
GI Bill
Kensey reports
Operation Wetback
Michael Harrington, The Other America
Elvis Presley
Beat Generation

Third World
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmám
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Ho Chi Minh
Domino theory
National Liberation Front (Vietcong)
Tonkin Gulf
Vietminh
My Lai Massacre
Tet Offensive
Pentagon Papers
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
OPEC oil embargo
Salvador Allende
Sandinistas
contras
Iran-contra scandal
apartheid

Martin Luther King, Jr.
March on Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
The Great Society
War on Poverty
Earl Warren
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
Malcolm X
Black Panther party
Free Speech Movement
Students for a Democratic Society
Port Huron Statement
Woodstock
Stonewall riot
The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Roe v. Wade
Kent State
George McGovern
Watergate
"Saturday Night Massacre"

OPEC
Three Mile Island
Environmental "Superfund"
Prposition 13
Moral Majority
Reaganomics
Geraldine Ferraro
Gramm-Rudman bill
Wounded Knee
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Equal Rights Amendment
AIDS
Rainbow Coalition

Greenhouse effect
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Tiananmen Square Massacre
START
Operation Just Cause
Persian Gulf War
Clarence Thomas
Rodney King
H. Ross Perot