I might post a few more things this evening. Remember, you can have one page of notes (front and back), but you may not share with anyone during the exam.
Good Luck!
Format: 1 easy (choice of 3), identifications, multiple choice
Essay Choices: discuss the birth and evolution of modern conservatism, discuss the core beliefs of conservatism, discuss the New Christian Right
Be prepared to discuss the following terms. They will be taken from all class readings, notes and documentaries.
voter identification
racial makeup of southern white electorate
Great White Switch
George Wallace
Newt Gingrich
Republican Revolution 1994
SALT, SALT II
Freeze Movement
Reykjavik Summit
Geneva Summit
elections of 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988
Greneda
Panama
Nicaragua
Beiruit
Iran-Contra Affair
Mike Deaver
Don Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
New Christian Right
Bi-Partisan Consensus
Reagan: Foreign policy of, and military spending, Reaganomics, children of, as actor, as corporate spokesman, as governor of California, relationship w/Religious Right, legacy of
Berlin Wall
Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco
Popularizer
Military industrial complex
Containment
Dog whistle politics
Draft/impact on baby boomers
Hippie counter culture
Baby Boomer
Neo Conservative
Beatnicks
philosophers, popularizers, philanthropists, and politicians
detente
Keynesnian Economics
Free store
Employment benefits
Welfare state
Progressivism
Supply-side economics
Inflation
Fair Deal
New Deal
GI Bill
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Strategic Defense Initiative
Sandra Day O’Connor
William F. Buckley
Gerald Ford
Joseph McCarthy/HUAAC
Jimmy Carter
Russell Kirk-Conservative Mind
Moa Zedong
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dinesh d’Souza
John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Moa Zedong
Jimmy Carter
Joseph McCarthy/HUAAC
Goldwater on Civil Rights, gays and abortion
Goldwater at Republican National Convention
Norman Leary Nixon, differences w/movement conservatives
Walter Reuther
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt
The Diggers
Daisy Add
“A Time for Choosing”
Vietnam War
1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act
Watergate Scandal
Iranian hostage crisis
The Death of Money
LSD
The Only Foreign Tour in the United States
6 Conservative principle
ICBMs
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Democratizing 20th Century - Midterm Review Sheet
REMEMBER, YOU MAY USE ONE SHEET OF NOTES.
CHECK LATER THIS WEEKEND TO SEE IF ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS HAVE BEEN POSTED
U. S. v One Package
Griswold v Connecticut
Roe v Wade
Schenck v. U. S.
Concepts:
Scramble for Africa
Red Scare
Fascism
Communism
Socialism
Progressivism
Industrial Capitalism
Immigration; types of; policy toward
Class Consciousness; Class solidarity
strike
Events:
Industrial Revolution
WWI
Great Depression
Bolshevik Revolution
Seattle Strike
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Birth Control Movement
Economics:
Economy of the 1920s
Law of Supply and Demand
Labor Union/collective bargaining
Progressivism
People:
Alice Paul
Woodrow Wilson
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
Mary Harris
William McKinley
Mother Mary Jones
Ida Tarbell
Kate Richards O’Hare
J. P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Eugene Debbs
Samuel Gompers
Carrie Chapman Catt
Emma Goldman
Helen Keller
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Charles Schenk,
Oliver Wendel Holmes,
Sacco and Vanzetti,
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Espionage Act
Oliver Wendel Holmes
American Protective League
Green Corn Rebellion Palmer Raids
Gregory Pincus
b) Franz Ferdinand
c) James Wadsworth
d) William Jennings Bryan
e) W. E. B. Dubois
f) J. Edgar Hoover
g) John Rock
h) Anthony Comstock
i) William Foster
NAWSA
2. AFL
3. WP
4. IWW
5. WCTU
1. muckraker
2. Silent Sentinel
3. Marxist
4. scab labor
5. collective bargaining
6. imperialism
7. Taylorism
8. Reformist Motherhood
9. Political Motherhood
10. Republican Mothers
11. Socialist Woman
1. mainstream reason cited for U.S. entry into WWI
2. unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Monroe Doctrine
4. Panama Canal
5. Spanish American War
6. The Jungle
19th amendment
CHECK LATER THIS WEEKEND TO SEE IF ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS HAVE BEEN POSTED
U. S. v One Package
Griswold v Connecticut
Roe v Wade
Schenck v. U. S.
Concepts:
Scramble for Africa
Red Scare
Fascism
Communism
Socialism
Progressivism
Industrial Capitalism
Immigration; types of; policy toward
Class Consciousness; Class solidarity
strike
Events:
Industrial Revolution
WWI
Great Depression
Bolshevik Revolution
Seattle Strike
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Birth Control Movement
Economics:
Economy of the 1920s
Law of Supply and Demand
Labor Union/collective bargaining
Progressivism
People:
Alice Paul
Woodrow Wilson
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
Mary Harris
William McKinley
Mother Mary Jones
Ida Tarbell
Kate Richards O’Hare
J. P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Eugene Debbs
Samuel Gompers
Carrie Chapman Catt
Emma Goldman
Helen Keller
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Charles Schenk,
Oliver Wendel Holmes,
Sacco and Vanzetti,
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Espionage Act
Oliver Wendel Holmes
American Protective League
Green Corn Rebellion Palmer Raids
Gregory Pincus
b) Franz Ferdinand
c) James Wadsworth
d) William Jennings Bryan
e) W. E. B. Dubois
f) J. Edgar Hoover
g) John Rock
h) Anthony Comstock
i) William Foster
NAWSA
2. AFL
3. WP
4. IWW
5. WCTU
1. muckraker
2. Silent Sentinel
3. Marxist
4. scab labor
5. collective bargaining
6. imperialism
7. Taylorism
8. Reformist Motherhood
9. Political Motherhood
10. Republican Mothers
11. Socialist Woman
1. mainstream reason cited for U.S. entry into WWI
2. unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Monroe Doctrine
4. Panama Canal
5. Spanish American War
6. The Jungle
19th amendment
Turn to the Right - Final Paper
School of the Future
History, J. Copeland
Turn to the Right: The Rise of Reagan and Movement and Conservatism
Final Response Essay
DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY JUNE 9th
Write an essay (min 4 pages double spaced) that answers the following question:
Discuss Ronald Reagan’s conservative philosophy. Was he more of a social/cultural conservative, a nationalist/pro-military conservative, a libertarian conservative or a fiscal/corporate conservative?
Criteria:
Your essay should be absolutely no less than 4 pages (5 would be more appropriate). It should include the following:
a) a clear and contentious thesis, supported by logical arguments
b) logical arguments supported by evidence (both paraphrased and directly quoted)
c) evidence from Reagan’s Realignment of White Southerners (Black and Black)
d) evidence from Reagan Years (Chaffe)
e) evidence from Lee Edwards lecture
f) evidence from Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus (Zinn)
g) evidence from The Presidents: Reagan (PBS)
h) evidence from one outside source
Mechanics:
Your essay should also:
a) be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar errors
• Read the paper aloud to yourself or a friend at least once before submitting
b) include transitional phrases to link paragraphs and different ideas
c) include an introduction that engages the reader and contextualizes the discussion
d) include a conclusion that summarizes your central argument
e) illustrate the significance of the topic
f) not make me want to shoot myself
History, J. Copeland
Turn to the Right: The Rise of Reagan and Movement and Conservatism
Final Response Essay
DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY JUNE 9th
Write an essay (min 4 pages double spaced) that answers the following question:
Discuss Ronald Reagan’s conservative philosophy. Was he more of a social/cultural conservative, a nationalist/pro-military conservative, a libertarian conservative or a fiscal/corporate conservative?
Criteria:
Your essay should be absolutely no less than 4 pages (5 would be more appropriate). It should include the following:
a) a clear and contentious thesis, supported by logical arguments
b) logical arguments supported by evidence (both paraphrased and directly quoted)
c) evidence from Reagan’s Realignment of White Southerners (Black and Black)
d) evidence from Reagan Years (Chaffe)
e) evidence from Lee Edwards lecture
f) evidence from Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus (Zinn)
g) evidence from The Presidents: Reagan (PBS)
h) evidence from one outside source
Mechanics:
Your essay should also:
a) be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar errors
• Read the paper aloud to yourself or a friend at least once before submitting
b) include transitional phrases to link paragraphs and different ideas
c) include an introduction that engages the reader and contextualizes the discussion
d) include a conclusion that summarizes your central argument
e) illustrate the significance of the topic
f) not make me want to shoot myself
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Democratizing 20th Century HW 5-21
Read 106-114 (Zinn) 382-390ish
Identify the following using several sentences. **Use a quote from the text when appropriate.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Fiorello La Guardia**
Harding, Coolidge
Andrew Mellon
TUEL
stretch-out
role of communists in labor movement**
Grapes of Wrath**
Henry Ford**
Stock Market Crash**
Great Depression**
Identify the following using several sentences. **Use a quote from the text when appropriate.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Fiorello La Guardia**
Harding, Coolidge
Andrew Mellon
TUEL
stretch-out
role of communists in labor movement**
Grapes of Wrath**
Henry Ford**
Stock Market Crash**
Great Depression**
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Turn to Right HW 5-7-08
Use the Reagan Years Packet to answer the following questions.
1. Discuss the election of 1984? Why do you think that Reagan won such a resounding victory?
2. Discuss the policy differences between Reagan and Mondale.
3. Why do you think people called Reagan the "teflon president" and the "Great Communicator?"
4. Discuss the Iran-Contra affair. What do you think it revealed about Reagan's presidency?
5. Discuss the critiques of Reagan's fiscal policies. Include a quote from the text.
6. Discuss the impact of Reagan's fiscal policies on blacks and Latinos.
7. Discuss the evolution/transformation of jobs during the Reagan era.
8. Who was Robert Bork?
9. Discuss Reagan's meeting Gorbechev.
1. Discuss the election of 1984? Why do you think that Reagan won such a resounding victory?
2. Discuss the policy differences between Reagan and Mondale.
3. Why do you think people called Reagan the "teflon president" and the "Great Communicator?"
4. Discuss the Iran-Contra affair. What do you think it revealed about Reagan's presidency?
5. Discuss the critiques of Reagan's fiscal policies. Include a quote from the text.
6. Discuss the impact of Reagan's fiscal policies on blacks and Latinos.
7. Discuss the evolution/transformation of jobs during the Reagan era.
8. Who was Robert Bork?
9. Discuss Reagan's meeting Gorbechev.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Turn to the Right 4-08-08 Homework
Read Zinn (Blue Book, Chap 10, 329-343), (Red Book, Chap 21, 563-574)
Answer the following questions. As always, USE EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS!
1. Discuss Hofstader's characterization of the two party system. What evidence does Zinn provide to support this characterization?
2. Why had the U. S. public become so complacent by the 1970s?
3. Who do you think Zinn is talking about when he says "the Establishment?" Why?
4. In which ways does Zinn characterize Carter as a group of contradictions?
5. In which ways does Carter co-opt the 1960s radicals?
6. Discuss Carter's foreign policy. Does it vary significantly with the policies espoused by conservatives?
7. Discuss Carter's actions regarding Panama.
8. Discuss the Iran conflict. Do you agree with Carter's handling of the conflict? Why, why not?
9. Discuss Carter's actions regarding blacks, workers and the environment. Overall, do you think that Carter governed as a liberal, moderate or conservative? Explain your answer.
Answer the following questions. As always, USE EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS!
1. Discuss Hofstader's characterization of the two party system. What evidence does Zinn provide to support this characterization?
2. Why had the U. S. public become so complacent by the 1970s?
3. Who do you think Zinn is talking about when he says "the Establishment?" Why?
4. In which ways does Zinn characterize Carter as a group of contradictions?
5. In which ways does Carter co-opt the 1960s radicals?
6. Discuss Carter's foreign policy. Does it vary significantly with the policies espoused by conservatives?
7. Discuss Carter's actions regarding Panama.
8. Discuss the Iran conflict. Do you agree with Carter's handling of the conflict? Why, why not?
9. Discuss Carter's actions regarding blacks, workers and the environment. Overall, do you think that Carter governed as a liberal, moderate or conservative? Explain your answer.
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