Part I.  Identification: 40% of the exam will be based upon your ability to identify and give the significance of the following terms.  For each one, be prepared to write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) in which you consider the "who, what, when, where, and why" of each item, as well as why these are SIGNIFICANT.  The item might be the first, last, most typical, exceptional, beginning or end of something, start or end of a trend, turning point, or some other factor that sets it apart from other items. Out of the 10 points offered for each item, approximately 70% of your grade will be awarded for correct identification, with the remaining 30% counting towards the significance.  Those terms appearing on the exam will be selected from the following:
 
 

10 percent plan	Wade-Davis Bill	ironclad oath	freedmen	13th Amendment
14th Amendment	Tenure of Office Act	15th Amendment	"black codes"	"scalawag"
"carpetbagger"	"redeemers"	Compromise of 1877	Phil Sheridan	C.J. Hillyer
Helen Hunt Jackson	Carlisle Indian School	Dawes Severalty Act	Joseph Glidden	Ned Buntline
William Bonney	Frank Eaton	Exodusters	James Duke	sharecropper
tenant farmer	crop lein	Plessy v. Ferguson	Booker T. Washington	Atlanta Comprimise
W.E.B. DuBois	"talented tenth"	Niagara Movement	"laissez faire"	"visible hand"
"invisible hand"	Andrew Carnegie	Bessemer Process	backward integration	horizontal integration
vertical integration	Gustavus Swift	John D. Rockefeller	pools	trusts
holding companies	Sherman Anti-Trust Act	"utopianism"	Knights of Labor	Great Railroad Strike
Terrence Powderly	Haymarket Square	Samuel Gompers	American Federation of Labor	Pinkertons
Homestead Strike	Pullman Strike	Henry Clay Frick	Industrial Workers of the World	"old immigrants"
"new immigrants"	chain migration	Ellis Island	"dumbbell tenement"	Social Darwinism
megalopolis	"walking cities"	Jacob Riis	Tammany Hall	George Washington Plunkitt
Stalwart	Half Breed	Pendleton Act	Mongrel Tariff	James G. Blaine
Mugwumps	Goldbugs	Greenbackers	Silverites	S.O. Dawes
Farmers Alliance of Texas	Charles Macune	subtreasury	Omaha Platform	William J. Bryan
Alfred Thayer Mahan	Queen Liliokalani	"yellow journalism"	William Randolph Hearst	DeLôme Letter
U.S.S. Maine	"Rought Riders"	Emilio Aguinaldo	John Hay	Boxer Rebellion
Henry Ford	Frederick W. Taylor	"gospel of efficiency"	"zeitgeist"	muckrakers
Jame Addams	Prohibition	"flying wedge"	Robert LaFollette	direct primary
initiative	referendum	recall	NCAA	Hull House

Part II.  Essay:  50% of your grade will be based upon your ability to write persuasively.  The exam will include a chjoice of questions based upon the topics outlined below.  While they may not appear exactly in the same format, the information asked for will be essentially the same.  Your task is to craft that information into an effective essay.  To write persuasively, it is absolutely necessary that you develop an argument (take a point of view), write in complete sentences, and use proper grammar.  An "A" essay will be one that does all of these, as well as contains specific examples from the text and lectures to support any assertions that are made.

South and West:  Compare and contrast the development of the South and West.  How was it that one region came to be integrated into the national economy, whereas the other remained largely outside the national economy?  What internal and external challenges did each region have to address?  Which region was more prosperous and why?

Rise of Big Business:  What factors contributed to the rise of Big Business in the United States?  What preconditions had to be met and why?  Who (or what) made the rise of Big Business Possible?  How (specifically) did Big Business emerge to dominate so much of the United States?

Labor and immigration:  Describe the emergence of the organized labor movement in the United States?  How did labor unions build off the success or failure of earlier organizations?  What were the goals of organized labor?  How did immigration factor into the emergence of labor unions, as well as the achievement of their goals?  Why did the Socialist Party fail to emerge as a significant political challenger in the United States?

Politics:  If the Gilded Age was presided over by a series of lackluster presidents, what factors contributed to the large voter turnout during the period?  What role did boss politics play on the local and national level?  What was the Farmer's Revolt and how did it signify a need for change in American politics?

Imperialism:  Did American imperialism represent a continuation of imperialistic methods embraced by other nations (France, Great Britain, or Germany), or did American Imperialism emerge with an altogether different rationale?  How did the United States go from being a backwater nation to one that had a presence beyond the continental boundaries of the nation?  What problems did imperialism present to the United State?

Progressivism:  Who were the Progressives?  What were their goals?  How did this first broad-based reform movement alter the form of American social, cultural, economic and political life?