MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

This midterm will be in class on 10/18.

YOU NEED A BLUE BOOK FOR THIS EXAM.
This exam will have two parts:

Part A (50%) is objective. There will be 27 multiple choice questions. You will answer 25 of them. Here are two examples of questions used on a previous exam:

Which Amendment added woman suffrage to the Constitution?
A. 19th
B. 20th
C. 21st
D. 22nd

The Reconstruction era Wade-Davis Bill was
A. wildly successful.
B. pocket-vetoed by Lincoln.
C. responsible for ending slavery.
D. signed by Lincoln.


Part B is an essay(50%):

I will choose one of the following three essays:

1. What caused the Great Depression? What were the key government responses? How effective were those responses?

2. Define Progressivism. What were the most successful movements within Progressivism?

3. Is the 1920s better characterized as a period of progress or decline?


HOW TO SUCCEED ON THIS TEST:
Study the lecture outlines on the blog.
Make outlines for each theme.
Make sure that your outlines have far more information than you could ever remember.
Avoid the big general statements.
Instead, add detail to your outline.
Then, use those outlines to study; try to rewrite the outline without looking; say the outline out loud in front of a mirror; use the outline to impress your friends at work or at parties; come to office hours and let me see the outline.The one comment I write more than any other on midterms is “add more detail.”
So, learn some details to back up your understanding of the periods we have studied. I want you to do well!