HIST 104 News
This weblog carries news, announcements, and guidance for students in Prof. Isern's section of HIST 104.Friday, March 31, 2006
Essay Questions
Two of these three questions will appear on the second exam.
Tocqueville asserts that in a democracy, political power will flow to the center, creating an ever more powerful federal government. Judging by events in the U.S. 1900-1940, is he right?
Tocqueville tells us that Americans are touchy—that they have excessive national vanity, or pride. Do you see this as a factor in American conduct and action leading up to war with Spain in 1898 and Germany in 1918?
The United States has not had a significant revolution since the Civil War, and yet the country has changed profoundly. According to Tocqueville, how does reform, constructive change, happen in a democracy? (Illustrate with examples from American history 1900-1940.)
Tocqueville asserts that in a democracy, political power will flow to the center, creating an ever more powerful federal government. Judging by events in the U.S. 1900-1940, is he right?
Tocqueville tells us that Americans are touchy—that they have excessive national vanity, or pride. Do you see this as a factor in American conduct and action leading up to war with Spain in 1898 and Germany in 1918?
The United States has not had a significant revolution since the Civil War, and yet the country has changed profoundly. According to Tocqueville, how does reform, constructive change, happen in a democracy? (Illustrate with examples from American history 1900-1940.)
MC Questions
At least five of the following student-submited questions will appear on the second exam.
The 1917 Zimmerman Note proposed a German alliance with which nation in the event of the United States joining the Great War?
A. Canada
B. Japan
C. Cuba
D. Mexico
The group known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 in the name of what cause?
A. Austro-Hungarian expansionism
B. International anarchism
C. Serbian nationalism
D. Croatian socialism
Who ran for president in 1916 under the campaign slogan, “He kept us out of war”?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. William Jennings Bryan
D. Charles Evans Hughes
The Brownsville Affair tainted the historical reputation of Theodore Roosevelt because it involved which of the following?
A. Sexual indiscretion
B. Shady financial dealings
C. Racial injustice
D. Violation of international law
Who won nearly a million votes in the 1920 U.S. presidential election while serving a 10-year prison sentence for opposing the draft during World War I?
A. Eugene Debs
B. Samuel Gompers
C. William Jennings Bryan
D. Calvin Coolidge
Which president secured passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act after reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D. Herbert Hoover
Independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo militarily resisted United States annexation and occupation of which country?
A. Cuba
B. Puerto Rico
C. Spain
D. Philippines
What was the name of the congressional act which required Cuba to adopt a constitution allowing the U.S. to build unlimited military bases on the island and to intervene in its domestic affairs?
A. Guantanamo Treaty Act
B. Cuban Protectorate Act
C. Teller Amendment
D. Platte Amendment
Franklin D. Roosevelt predicted that this event would guarantee his election in 1932?
Black Thursday
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bonus Army March
German annexation of the Sudetenland
American women secured the constitutional right to vote by forcing passage of which amendment?
18th
19th
20th
21st
The 1917 Zimmerman Note proposed a German alliance with which nation in the event of the United States joining the Great War?
A. Canada
B. Japan
C. Cuba
D. Mexico
The group known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 in the name of what cause?
A. Austro-Hungarian expansionism
B. International anarchism
C. Serbian nationalism
D. Croatian socialism
Who ran for president in 1916 under the campaign slogan, “He kept us out of war”?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. William Jennings Bryan
D. Charles Evans Hughes
The Brownsville Affair tainted the historical reputation of Theodore Roosevelt because it involved which of the following?
A. Sexual indiscretion
B. Shady financial dealings
C. Racial injustice
D. Violation of international law
Who won nearly a million votes in the 1920 U.S. presidential election while serving a 10-year prison sentence for opposing the draft during World War I?
A. Eugene Debs
B. Samuel Gompers
C. William Jennings Bryan
D. Calvin Coolidge
Which president secured passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act after reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D. Herbert Hoover
Independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo militarily resisted United States annexation and occupation of which country?
A. Cuba
B. Puerto Rico
C. Spain
D. Philippines
What was the name of the congressional act which required Cuba to adopt a constitution allowing the U.S. to build unlimited military bases on the island and to intervene in its domestic affairs?
A. Guantanamo Treaty Act
B. Cuban Protectorate Act
C. Teller Amendment
D. Platte Amendment
Franklin D. Roosevelt predicted that this event would guarantee his election in 1932?
Black Thursday
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bonus Army March
German annexation of the Sudetenland
American women secured the constitutional right to vote by forcing passage of which amendment?
18th
19th
20th
21st
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Another One
Certainly an easy one to relate to Tocqueville: 7:00 PM Monday 3 April, in Beckwith Recital Hall: Carol Pearson speaking on "Barefoot Hearts: Mexican-American Women's Voices in the Northern Plains"
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Events
Now comes the time of year many of you may be looking for events to fill the Cultural Currents assignment. Here's a selection from recent notices.
Tuesday 28 March, 7:00 PM, Beckwith Recital Hall: Kimberly M. Blaeser, "Somewhere West of History: Literary Recollection and Resistance"
Wednesday 29 March, Noon, MU Peace Garden: "Is This America or Did I Take a Left Turn? Experiences of Reverse Culture Shock," a panel of NDSU students returned from study abroad
Friday 31 March, 7:30 PM, Festival Concert Hall: Saint Louis Brass Qunitet
Thursday 6 April, 7:30 PM, Beckwith Recital Hall: Judith Lorber, "Workers Have Families: Degendering the Workplace"
6-9 April, 13-14 April, 7:30 PM (except 2:00 PM Sunday), Askanase Auditorium: Peer Gynt, Little Country Theatre
Tuesday 28 March, 7:00 PM, Beckwith Recital Hall: Kimberly M. Blaeser, "Somewhere West of History: Literary Recollection and Resistance"
Wednesday 29 March, Noon, MU Peace Garden: "Is This America or Did I Take a Left Turn? Experiences of Reverse Culture Shock," a panel of NDSU students returned from study abroad
Friday 31 March, 7:30 PM, Festival Concert Hall: Saint Louis Brass Qunitet
Thursday 6 April, 7:30 PM, Beckwith Recital Hall: Judith Lorber, "Workers Have Families: Degendering the Workplace"
6-9 April, 13-14 April, 7:30 PM (except 2:00 PM Sunday), Askanase Auditorium: Peer Gynt, Little Country Theatre
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