This weblog carries news, announcements, and guidance for students in Prof. Isern's section of HIST 104.
Again, this is not a comprehensive list, and it does not include the WWI lecture material, which is accessible online via Wimba (see below). Let me know if you have trouble opening it.
Imperialism
Monroe Doctrine
Olney Interpretation
Social Darwinism
Rudyard Kipling
Butcher Weyler
Carl Decker
DeLome Letter
Admiral Dewey
Teller Amendment
Protectorate
Platte Amendment
KKK
Reed-Johnson Act
Versailles
League of Nations
Reservationists
19th Amendment
Volstead Act
D.W. Griffith
Warren Harding
Ohio Gang
Andrew Mellon
Mitchell Palmer
FCC
Teapot Dome
Volstead Act
Thomas Dixon
Red Scare
William Simmons
Herbert Hoover
Scopes Trial
Social Gospel
Country Life Movement
Charles Sheldon
Upton Sinclair
Frederick Taylor
Australian Ballot
Bull Moose
Gutzon Borglum
Northern Securities
Booker T. Washington
Philander Knox
John Mitchell
Gifford Pinchot
Brownsville Affair
Hepburn Act
Underwood Tariff
Poison Squad
Smith-Lever Act 1914
Federal Reserve Act
Eugene Debs
Bonus Army
TVA
Keynes
100 Days
Bank Holiday
Glass-Steagall Act
v. U.S. WPA
Charles Coughlin
Security Act
U.S. v. Butler
NRA
John L. Lewis
Taylor Grazing Act
CCC
Dust Bowl
Court-Packing
REA
At least five of the following will appear on the upcoming exam.
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were most commonly associated with which of the following terms?
a. muckraking
b. pacifism
c. social gospel
d. yellow journalism
The sinking of what American ship in Cuba became a rallying cry for the 1898 Spanish War?
a. The Sussex
b. The Lusitania
c. The Maine
d. The Titanic
Who adopted the slogan "he kept us out of war" in his campaign for the presidency in 1916?
a. Charles Evan Hughes
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Theodore Roosevelt
d. Eugene Debs
What was the popular nickname of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment?
a. Soaring Eagles
b. War Hawks
c. Rough Riders
d. Christian Soldiers
Which of these was the predominant ideology of the Bull Moose Party?
a. Progressivism
b. Socialism
c. Fascism
d. Libertarianism
What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declare in his inaugural address to be the only thing that Americans need fear?
a. concentration of wealth
b. ignorance and indifference
c. conservative backlash
d. fear itself
October 29, 1929, is commonly referred to as what?
a. Bloody Sunday
b. The Red Scare
c. Black Friday
d. Casual Thursday
What military theorist is best known for advocating a "big navy" to achieve imperialist aims?
a. Alfred Mahan
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Admiral Dewey
d. Sun Tzu
Emiliano Aguinaldo was the leader of a nationalist rebellion in what nation?
a. Spain
b. Cuba
c. Russia
d. Philippines
What did Theodore Roosevelt term his domestic program of progressive reform?
a. New Deal
b. The Fourteen Points
c. Square Deal
d. New Frontier
First, go to the login page for Wimba, here –
http://208.185.34.137/
There, see Setup Wizard on the right? Run this. It will check to see if you have any web security settings that might interfere with running the archived presentations; you might have to turn off a popup blocker. It also will try to check for sound settings, input and output. Output is all that matters for an archived presentation, of course.
Next, log in as Participant.
Room ID = NDSU_History_Room
For Name, just use your own name.
Once logged into the Wimba classroom, select the Archives tab.
In the archives, see three archived presentations for the History room. Click on one, and it should open. You can minimize my talking head, and you’ll have full view of the outline slides.
Any problems - ITS Help Desk should provide support for accessing Wimba, which is a supported program. If you consult with them, direct them to these instructions.
Campus Opportunity to Respond to Homophobic and Blackface Demonstration at the Mr. NDSU event:
Community of Color Town Hall
Wednesday, March 26th
12:00 pm, Memorial Union
Century Theater
7pm Tuesday 1 April, in MU Century Theater: "Wild About Wilderness: A Historian's Journey into Nature's Past," 50th Annual Faculty Lecture, by Prof. Mark Harvey