U.S. History Since 1877 – Fall 2008
Exam #1 – Study Guide

 

 

Your first examination will consist of short-answer identifications.  I will give you five of the terms below and you will identify four of them.  A good identification will include three elements: 1) historical context, 2) historical facts, and 3) historical significance.  Typically, this will mean writing one or two full paragraphs, although the trick here is to be thorough as well as concise.  You should use all relevant sources (lectures, discussions, books, films, etc.) to identify the given terms.  Each response is worth a possible 25 points, for a total of 100 points.


Knights of Labor                                         
American Federation of Labor
Andrew Carnegie              
John D. Rockefeller
Industrial Workers of the World 
Eugene Debs
Birth of a Nation
Proletarianization                                                   
Scientific Management
Plessy v. Ferguson                                                                         
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Chinese Exclusion Act
Second Wave European Immigration
Urban Sanitation Reform