Sam Houston State University—Fall 2003
History 164 - United States History since the Civil War
Section 3, TTH 8 AM to 9:30 AM AB4 303
Section 4, TTH 9:30 AM to 1130 PM AB4 309
Section 5, MWF 1 PM to 2 PM AB4 309
Bernadette Pruitt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Office Hours, M, W & F, 9:00 AM to 1 PM, T & TH, 11 AM-12:30 PM or
by appointment, Room AB4 459, 294-1491
Address for correspondence, Dr. Bernadette Pruitt, Department of History
Box 239,
Huntsville, Texas 77341
For emergencies, call instructor at office or home—438-8868—before 10 PM
Email Address: HIS_BXP@SHSU.EDU
REQUIRED READINGS:
Bell, Thomas. Out of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America.
1941;
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992 ($11.25 used, $14.95
new).
Deloria, Philip J. et al. This Land: A History of the United States, V. 2.
Maplecrest, New
York: Brandywine Press, 2003 (Please be advised that the either
book comes separately or in a packet which includes a workbook and one or
both
of the other required readings; $100-$150 new for entire packet).
LaFeber, Walter L. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002, updated
9th ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Wintz, Cary D., ed. The Harlem Renaissance: A History and an Anthology. Maplecrest,
New York: Brandywine Press, 2003.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
This course is designed to familiarize undergraduate students with United
States history since the Civil War. Students will examine important
social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments such as post-bellum
race relations, the rise of modern United States industrialism, the labor
movement, immigration, third-party politics, the genesis of the national
welfare state, and United States foreign policy. While the course is
an examination of history, the class also investigates current issues they
affect Americans of the United States in 2003. The central theme of
the course is relationship between the United States, her citizens, allies,
and foes, since 1865. This class examines the following topics:
The Civil War
Reconstruction
The West
Industrialism and Industrial Workers
Immigration
The New South: Origins of Jim Crow
Farmers and the Populist Movement
Progressives and Progressivism
United States Imperialism
World War I
The Rise of Modern America: 1920s
The Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal
World War II
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The Civil Rights Movement
Watergate
The End of the Cold War
The lectures are divided into two parts. Part One, The United States
Heads toward Modernization, examines the history of the nation from the Civil
War to World War I. During this period, United States society transforms
from a small country of farms and self-employed workers to a nation of cities,
wage earners, corporations, and bureaucracies. At the center of this
transformation is the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. The new industrial and social order also paved
the way for the nation becoming a global super power. Part Two, The
Modern Era, commences with the 1920s and concludes with the end of the Cold
War. The United States we know today—a country of suburbs, urban centers,
appliances, feminism, multicultural diversity, super power diplomacy, and
the rise of the social welfare state—is the focus of this discussion series.
ABSENCE POLICY:
College policy stresses that instructors may penalize students for excessive
absences of four or more. Students with four or more absences will
be penalized severely in the class this semester. If you have special
problems, please contact the instructor immediately. Attendance will
be taken daily. Please make an effort to be in class on time.
LECTURES AND CLASS ACTIVITIES:
Class lectures will be based on the topics in the course calendar.
Students are responsible for assigned readings and must stay abreast with
lectures and discussions. All reading is required. I also expect
students to take good and lengthy lecture notes. And, students are
expected to fully participate in class discussions. I will call on
students to answer pertinent questions relating to the lecture(s) at hand.
Again, the class will discuss current events as they relate to historic topics.
TESTS:
Three multiple choice examinations will be given this semester on the following
dates: Exam 1—September 22 & 23; Exam 2—October 20 & 21; and Exam
3—November 24 & 25. Each question (50) is worth two points, totaling
100 points for the entire exam. Only in cases of emergencies will make-ups
be allowed for students and only after the Final Exam date immediately following
the final. It is therefore imperative that students take exams on the
scheduled dates. The information on all tests will come from both the
lectures and assigned readings. A Scan Tron answer sheet and No. 2
pencil are required for the exam. Scan Tron answer sheets (Form 881
or 882) are available at the bookstore. Each exam is worth 20 percent
of the final grade.
FINAL EXAMINATION:
The final exam—which will cover the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War
(possibly), Watergate, and the End of the Cold War—will be in the same format
as previous tests. The exam will come from the lectures, textbook,
and other assigned readings. The final exam will be given on the following
dates: Section 3, Thursday, December 11, 8 AM to 10 AM; Section 4, Tuesday,
December 9, 8 AM to 10 AM; and Section 5, Wednesday, December 10, 2 PM to
4 PM. Again, make-ups will be given in extreme circumstances and must
be taken immediately following your final exam in this classroom!
The final examination is worth 20 percent of the final grade.
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW
Students are also responsible for conducting an oral history interview with
a family member, friend, church member, colleague, or employer on one of
the following topics—Immigration, Great Depression, World War II, Korean
War, Vietnam War, and Racial Segregation/the Civil Rights Movement.
Students must use either a tape recorder or video recorder and the suggested
interview questions at the end of this syllabus. Students are required
to write a three-to-five page, double-spaced, word-processed review of the
interview. Your essay must consist of the following: (1) an opening
paragraph stating the thesis or main point of the essay, (2) subsequent paragraphs
describing the interview in detail, (3) and a concluding paragraph summarizing
the interview. This last paragraph must also include your assessment
of the interview. Please turn in your audio-cassette of the interview with
your essay. This assignment will be due after Thanksgiving.
The oral history interview project is worth 20 percent of the final grade.
Please let me know if you have other ideas for an interview assignment, for
example, the rise of communism in Eastern Europe, the Watergate Scandal,
etc. Also, let me know if you cannot find potential interview subjects.
I know plenty of people who love to rave about their experiences and triumphs.
This assignment is due on December 1 and 2.
FINAL GRADE
Students can earn a total number of five hundred points this semester:
Examination One 100 Points –September
26 & 27
Examination Two 100 Points –October
24 & 25
Examination Three 100 Points –November
25 & 26
Oral History Interview 100 Points –November 29 & 30
Final Examination 100 Points –Section
3, Thursday, December 11, 8-10 AM
Section 4,
Tuesday, December 9, 8-10 AM
Section 5,
Wednesday, December 10, 2-4 PM
GRADING SCALE:
The grading scale applies to all exams:
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
Below 60 F
EXTRA CREDIT:
As a bonus, students will be eligible to earn extra points throughout the
semester. The extra credit assignments will be worth two points each
for specific assignments and will go toward the final exam grade. See
the following information for some extra credit assignments. Details
on other assignments will be forthcoming as the semester progresses.
Students can earn a total of 60 extra credit points for the entire semester.
Again, all extra credit is due at the end of the semester on the day of the
final examination. No exceptions!!
Brandywine Workbook that accompanies This Land text, V. 2
Students can earn two extra credit points for each completed workbook assignment.
Students must simply complete each exercise in the workbook chapters and
turn the assignments in on final exam day. These extra credit assignments
are designed to acquaint students with topics, classroom lectures, and upcoming
examinations. Again, students are expected to complete the entire exercises
in each chapter in the workbook. Incomplete workbook assignments will
not be accepted for extra credit: Students can earn up to 2 points for each
assignment or a total of 28 for the semester. Please, please, please
take it upon yourself to do these exercises for both extra credit and test
preparation.
Workbook Assignment 14: “The Civil War”
Workbook Assignment 15: “Reconstructing the South”
Workbook Assignment 16: “Raiding the Continent”
Workbook Assignment 17: “The Search for New Frontiers”
Workbook Assignment 18, “Taming the Forces of Social Change”
Workbook Assignment 19, “Progressive Empire and Progressive Reform”
Workbook Assignment 20: “Of War, Money, Preachers, and Jazz”
Workbook Assignment 21: “Hitting Bottom and Coming Back
Up”
Workbook Assignment 22: “World War II and Its Prelude”
Workbook Assignment 23: “Warm Hearts and a Cold War”
Workbook Assignment 24: “Politics Takes to the Streets”
Workbook Assignment 25: “Vietnam—the Longest War”
Workbook Assignment 26: “Testing the Reach of Power”
Workbook Assignment 27: “‘New Alignments and a New War”
Roots: The Story of an American Family
Twenty-six years ago, Roots premiered on ABC. As an eleven year-old,
I didn’t understand the miniseries’ importance or relevance. Over the
years, however, Roots has changed my life and deepened my love for American
and African-American history. Many diminish its significance in popular
culture and history because of the questions surrounding alleged plagiarism.
Still, Roots and Roots: The Second Generations touched the minds, hearts,
and souls of millions. It begins in eighteenth Senegambia where an
adolescent, Kunta Kinte, lived with his extended family. He had just
completed his manhood ceremony when slavers kidnapped him and of course changed
his life and the lives of his descendents forever. The series ends
with Alex Haley, a successful writer in the 1960s, who unearths the quagmire
that has plagued him for decades as a man: he traces his family’s incredible
lineage that began in West Africa. I will show the entire miniseries—fourteen
volumes—this semester. For two extra credit points, view a movie and
write a brief 1-2 pp. synopsis. View all fourteen videos—and write
14 short synopses—and earn 28 points for the entire semester. The miniseries
will be shown in AB4 303, at 5-8 PM on Mondays. The dates of the showings
are as follows:
Roots 1 & 2
August 25
Roots 3 & 4
September 8
Roots 5 & 6
September 15
Roots 7 & 8
September 22
Roots 9 & 10
September 29
Roots 11 & 12
October 6
Roots 13 & 14
October 13
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years
The award-winning Eyes on the Prize series chronicles the Civil Rights Movement
in the United States from its inception in the 1950s to its decline in the
1970s. Eyes on the Prize II, explores racism and race relations since
the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Students are encouraged to view
a film and write a 1-2 page synopsis on its findings for two extra credit
points. Students are especially encouraged to view the entire series
for a total of 28 points. The films will be shown in AB4 303 on Monday
nights in late October, November, and early December from 5-7 PM. The
titles and dates are as follows:
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years
Monday, October 20
Awakenings (1954-1956)
Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Monday, October27
Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
Monday, November 3
Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)
Bridge of Freedom (1965)
Monday, November 10
The Time Has Come (1964-1966)
Two Societies (1965-1968)
Monday, November 17
Power (1966-1968)
The Promised Land (1967-1968)
Monday, November 24
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1971)
A Nation of Laws? (1968-1971)
December 4
The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)
Back to the Movement (1979-Mid 1980s)
Course Calendar
History 164 - United States History Since the Civil War, Fall 2003
Sections 3, 4, and 5 Sam Houston State University
Bernadette Pruitt, Ph.D.
PART ONE: AMERICA HEADS TOWARD MODERNIZATION
August 20-22 Introduction to the Course/Explanation
of the Syllabus
Department of Student
Activities
SAM Center
Counseling Center
Newton Gresham Library
August 22 “The Civil War and Reconstructing
the South”
This Land Ch. 14
August 25-29 “The Civil War and
Reconstructing the South”
This Land, Ch. 14
& 15
The West: “Raiding
the Continent”
The West: “The Search
for New Frontiers”
This Land, Ch. 16
& 17
September 1 NO CLASS:
Have a safe Labor Day Holiday
September 2-5 The West: “Raiding the
Continent”
The West: “The Search
for New Frontiers”
This Land, Ch. 16
& 17
The Industrial Revolution:
“Raiding the Continent”
The Industrial Revolution:
“The Search for New Frontiers”
This Land, Ch.
16 & 17
September 8-12 The Industrial Revolution and Labor: “Raiding
the Continent”
Labor Strife: “The
Search for New Frontiers”
Labor Strife: “Taming
the Forces of Social Change”
This Land, Ch.
16, 17 & 18
Out of This Furnace,
pp. 5-117
September 15-19 Labor Strife: “The Search for New Frontiers”
Labor Strife: “Taming
the Forces of Social Change”
Immigration: “Taming
the Forces of Social Change”
Urbanization, 1865-1900:
The Search for New Frontiers”
This Land, Ch. 17
& 18
Out of This Furnace,
pp. 119-208
September 26-27 Examination One
The following topics
will be covered on the test:
*Civil War and Reconstruction
*The West
*Industrialism
*Labor and Labor
Strife, 1865-1900
*Immigration
*Urbanization, 1865-1900
*Out of This Furnace,
pp 1-208
September 24-26 NO CLASS
Association for the Study of African-American Life and
History Life Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI
Please read chapters 18-19 on Populism, Jim Crow,
Imperialism and Progressivism
September 29-Oct. 3 Populism: “The Search for New Frontiers”
Jim Crow: “The Search
for New Frontiers”
Jim Crow: “Taming
the Forces of Social Change”
This Land, Ch. 17&
18
The Harlem Renaissance,
pp. 1-71
October 6-10 Progressivism: “Taming
the Forces of Social Change”
Progressivism: “Progressive
Empire and Progressive Reform”
Imperialism: “Progressive
Empire and Progressive Reform”
This Land, Ch. 18
& 19
October 13-17 Imperialism: “Progressive
Empire and Progressive Reform”
Origins of WWI:
“Of War, Money, Preachers, and Jazz”
American & WWI:
“Of War, Money, Preachers, and Jazz”
This Land, Ch. 19
& 20
October 20-21 Examination Two
The following topics will be covered on the test:
*The Farm and Populism
*The New South: Origins of Jim Crow
*The Progressive Spirit
*Progressive Politics
*American Imperialism, 1865-1900
*Origins of World War I
*America and World War I
*The Harlem Renaissance, pp. 1-71
PART TWO: THE MODERN ERA
October 22-Oct. 24 The 1920s: “Of War, Money, Preachers,
and Jazz”
The Depression Years:
“Hitting Bottom and Coming Back Up”
This Land, Ch. 20
& 21
Out of This Furnace,
pp. 209-258
The Harlem Renaissance,
pp. 72-194
October 27-31 The Depression Years:
“Hitting Bottom and Coming Back Up”
This Land, Ch. 21
Out of This Furnace,
pp. 259-413
The Harlem Renaissance,
pp. 147-232
November 3-5 Origins of WWII: “World
War II and Its Prelude”
The US at War: “World
War II and Its Prelude”
This Land, Ch. 22
November 6 & 7 No Class: Southern Historical Association
Annual Meeting,
Houston, Texas
Please read Ch.
22-23 on WWII and the Cold War
November 10-14 The US at War: “World War II and Its Prelude”
The Cold War: Warm
Hearths and a Cold War”
This Land, Ch. 22
& 23
November 17-21 The Cold War: Warm Hearths and a Cold War”
The Vietnam Crisis:
“Vietnam—The Longest War”
This Land, Ch. 23
& 25
November 24 & 25 Exam Three
Exam Topics:
*1920s
*Great Depression
and New Deal
*Origins of World
War Two
*World War Two
*The Cold War
*The Vietnam War
(possibly)
*Out of This Furnace,
pp. 259-413
*The Harlem Renaissance,
72-232
November 27-28 No Class!
Have a Blessed and
Safe Thanksgiving Holiday
Reminder: Oral History Interview: Due December 1 & 2
December 1-5 Civil Rights Movement: “Politics Takes to
the Streets”
Watergate: “Testing the Reach of Power”
The End of the Cold War: “New Arguments and a New War”
This Land, Ch. 24, 26 & 27
Oral History Interview Essay and Audio
Cassette
Due December 1 &
2
December Final Examination
Section 3, Thursday,
December 11, 8-10 AM
December 10 Final Examination
Section 4, Tuesday,
December 9, 8-10 AM
December 12 Section 3, Wednesday, December
10, 2-4 PM
Topics:
Vietnam War (possibly)
Civil Rights Movement
Watergate
End of the Cold
War
This Land, Ch. 24,
25 (possibly), 26 & 27
BE ADVISED THAT CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM CAN RESULT IN AN AUTOMATIC "F" FOR
THE COURSE. THIS GOES FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS AND TESTS.PLEASE REMEMBER
DUE DATES FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS AND TESTS. PLEASE DO NOT LOSE THIS SYLLABUS
AND COURSE CALENDAR. THESE WILL BE YOUR LIFELINE FOR THE COURSE THIS
SEMESTER. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT TIME IN THIS CLASS.
Oral History Interview Questions
Immigration
1. When did you or your family move to the United States?
2. Where did you or your family move from?
3. Why did you or your family leave home?
4. What were conditions like in your family’s homeland?
Household?
5. What was your occupation in your homeland?
6. Did you or your family have other options outside immigration?
What were they?
7. How did you or your family find out about the benefits
of living in the US?
8. Who helped you or your family move to the US?
9. What kind of assistance did you and family members receive
from others?
10. How did you or your family travel to the US?
11. How long did the trip take? Was the trip dangerous?
Explain?
12. Where did you or your family settle?
13. Who helped you find homes and jobs?
14. Did you have family members already living in the US?
In your new neighborhood?
15. Was migration a big adjustment? How?
16. Did you or your family find restaurants, churches,
schools, businesses, and neighborhood centers that assist migrants like yourself?
Explain.
17. What kind of work did you find? Did you attend college?
Where?
18. Talk about your job. Did you like it? What
kind of work did you do?
19. How did your job differ from the work you left in the
homeland?
20. Which job or work did you prefer—the work in your homeland
or the work in the US? Why?
21. How did Americans treat you and your family?
Did you experience any form of
discrimination? If so, explain. How did it make you feel?
22. Did immigration improve your or your family’s life?
How?
23. Do you support immigration today? Why or why not?
24. Do you support English Only laws or should immigrants
be able to freely speak their native tongue in their schools, on the job,
and in their communities? Why or why not?
25. Are Americans wrong to curtail immigration to the US?
Why or why not?
26. Should anyone be able to move to the US? Why
or why not?
27. If you had to do it again, would you immigrate?
Why or why not?
Great Depression
1. Where did you live during the 1929 stock market crash?
2. How old were you in 1929?
3. How did the depression affect you, your family, and
your community?
4. What kind of work did your parents do?
5. If they were farmers, did they own their own farm? Or
were they sharecroppers?
6. How did the Depression affect them as farmers?
7. How long did your family suffer during the depression?
8. Did you or your parents lose your jobs? Why or why not?
9. How did the Depression affect people in your community?
10. What was your/your parents' impression of Presidents
Hoover and Roosevelt? How did they like the presidents’ responses to
the crisis?
11. Did New Deal agencies and relief programs help your
family? Which ones?
12. Who did you/your family blame for the depression?
13. When did life improve for you/your family?
14. What ended the Depression?
World War II
1. Were you involved in the World War II? If so,
explain?
2. How old were you when you were drafted or volunteered?
3. Were you afraid to fight in the war? Why or why
not?
4. What was your life like in Europe or in the Pacific
during wartime?
5. Did you hate the enemy? Why or why not?
6. What did you know about the enemies—Italians, Germans
and Japanese?
7. Did you know what you were fighting about? What?
8. What was your impression of others from belligerent
nations—Japanese, Germans, French, Italians, British,
etc.?
9. Did you support the war effort?
10. Did you have affairs with European or Asian women?
Did you fall in love with these women?
11. How many people do you remember being
killed during your tenure overseas?
Talk about the experience of killing or seeing
fellow soldiers killed. Discuss.
12. What were conditions like in Europe
and Asia during the war?
How different
were these countries from the United States?
13. Did you have sympathy for the people you fought or
their country?
14. What did you think about President Roosevelt and his
policies?
15. Did you remember the end of the war—the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What did you think about the bombings?
16. Did you support the bombings? Why or why not?
17. Do you remember the interment camps for Japanese Americans?
Did you support
Americans being placed in these camps? Why or why
not?
18. Do you think the internment camps and the atomic bombings
in Japan were
racially-motivated? Why didn’t the US imprison German
Americans, Italian Americans?
Why didn’t the US bomb Germany?
19. Did all or most Americans support the war? What
was the home-front like during the war?
20 Did Europeans and South Pacific
Islanders—Vietnamese, Filipinos, Koreans—
think
of you and the other Americans as heroes? Why or why not?
21. Who is responsible for the war? Why?
22. What did you think about the end of the war—the origins
of the Cold War?
23. Who or what nation was responsible for the Cold War?
Why?
24. Was it America’s responsibility to protect democracy
in the world and save countries from the
spread of communism? Why or why not?
25. How would you compare World War II with later American
wars?
26. What are your opinions about the present
post-Cold War world? Do we need to worry about a new enemy? What is
that threat?
27. What is the greatest strength and weakness of the current
military?
28. Do you support other nations like India and Pakistan
having nuclear bombs? Why or why not?
29. Why did September 11 happen?
Who’s really to blame? How could we have avoided this terrible tragedy?
How can we ensure our nation’s survival in this new world order?
Korean or Vietnam War
1. Were you in the Vietnam (or Korean ) War?
2. How old were you when you were drafted?
3. Were you afraid to fight in the war?
4. What was your life like in Vietnam (or Korea)?
5. Did you hate the enemy?
6. Did you know what you were fighting about? What?
7. What was your impression of the Vietnamese (or Koreans)?
8. Did you support the war effort? Why or why not?
9. Did you have affairs with the Vietnamese (or Korean)
women? Did you care
or love them?
10. How many people do you remember being
killed during your tenure overseas?
Discuss
the experience of killing or seeing fellow soldiers killed.
11. What were conditions like in Vietnam (or Korea)?
How different was the
country from the United States?
12. Did you have sympathy for the people?
13. What did you think about President Johnson (or Truman
during the Korean War)
and his policies?
14. Did you remember the Tet Offensive and Gulf of Tonkin
affair?
15. Did you understand why you were over there?
16. Did the Vietnamese (or Korean) people of South Vietnam
(or Korea) think of you
and other American soldiers as heroes? Why or why
not?
17. Did you find a way to avoid the draft?
18. Did you protest the war? Why or why not?
19. Did you support the student movements at Kent State
University and other schools?
Why or
why not?
20. Who was responsible for the war?
21. Could America have saved South Vietnam (Korea)?
How?
22. Should America have been involved in the Vietnam (or
Korean) conflict in the first place? Why or why not?
23. Why didn’t the
United Sates win the war? Be specific.
24. How did the Vietnam War differ from previous wars?
How did it differ from the Gulf War?
25. What are your opinions about the present post-Cold
War world? Do we need to worry about a new enemy? What is that threat?
26. What is the greatest strength and weakness of the current
military?
27. Do you support other nations like India and Pakistan
having nuclear bombs? Why or why not?
28. Why did September 11 happen?
Who’s really to blame? How could we have avoided this terrible tragedy?
How can we ensure our nation’s survival in this new world order?
Civil Rights Movement
1. What did you think about the Brown decision in 1954?
2. How old were you in 1954?
3. Did you understand race relations during the period
of Jim Crow segregation?
4. Did you support the segregation of the races? Why or
why not?
5. What did you think about blacks? What did you
think about whites?
6. Were you taught that African Americans were inferior?
Or, were you taught that
whites were superior? Explain.
7. Did you support the Civil Rights Movement? Why or why
not?
8. Did you support the Ku Klux Klan or Citizen's Council?
Why or why not?
9. Did you come into close contact with blacks (or whites)?
10. Did you have black (or white) friends? Why or
why not?
11. What did you think about Dr. Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X?
12. What did you think about the NAACP, SNCC and CORE?
13. Did you think the Federal Government was wrong to force
school integration or desegregation? Why or why
not?
14. What did you think about the pro-integrationist policies
of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?
15. Did you participate in the Civil Rights Movement as
a
student or community activist? Why or why not?
16. Were you frightened at the turn of events in the 1950s
and 1960s?
17. Did you remember the Emmett Till lynching? How
old were you?
Did it scare you as a black youth or parent?
18. Did you like whites? Why or why not?
19. What did you think about the black power movements
of the 1960s? Did you support these movements?
20. Do you remember Kennedy’s, King's, and Malcolm X's
assassinations?
How did the assassinations affect you as an African American
or American?
21. Which assassination affected you the most? Why? Why
do you think this person was killed? Who or what group was responsible
for the assassinations?
22. Did the Civil Rights Movement change American society?
Explain
23. Does racism still exist? Give examples.
24. What is your opinion of Affirmative Action for racial
minorities and women?
Is there still a need for this kind of program in the United States?
Why or why not?
25. Who or what group benefits the most from Affirmative
Action programs? Explain.
26. What do you think about race relations in 2002?
Has society changed or
have problems remained the same?
27. Are blacks and other racial minorities
treated fairly in society today?
28. Do you see the death
penalty and racial profiling as current problems facing
American society? Why or why not? What about police brutality?
Do these
current controversies substantiate the claim that racism still exists
in 2000?
29. If you are black. Do you have close
white friends? If you are white, do you have
close black friends? If you are Mexican American,
do you have any close black
and/or white friends? If so, how do you interact
with these friends? What has
sustained your friendship over the years? If you
don’t have any close friends of
another racial/ethnic group, why? Please explain?
30. Do you support inter-racial marriages?
Why or why not?
Terms for History 164
Bernadette Pruitt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
Juneteenth
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau)
Radical Reconstruction
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Sherman's Field Order 15
Lincoln Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Johnson Plan
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Black Codes
Tenure of Office Act of 1867
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Ku Klux Klan
New Orleans Race Riot
Memphis Race Riot
Compromise of 1877
Hirem Revels
Blanch Bruce
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
Industrialism
large-scale business
small-scale business
capital
diversification
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Wabbash vs. Illinois (1886)
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
pre-conditions for big business
vertical growth
forward integration
backward integration
horizontal integration
Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890
mergers
holding companies
monopolies
First Americans and Their Descendants
Homestead Act of 1882
Plains Indians
Sitting Bull
General George Custer
Buffalo
Frederick Jackson Turner
Digger Indians
Red Armed Panther
US Indian Policy
Nez Perce
Department of Interior
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
Nuevo Mexicanos
Californios
Tejanos
Santa Fe Ring
Immigration
old immigrants
new immigrants
emigration
Points of departure
Jewish Pale of Settlement
II Mezzorgiorno
Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
Birds of Passage
Burlingame Agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, 1892, 1902
Nativism
Emergency Quota Act, 1921
National Origins Act, 1924
Repatriation
Literacy Test
Urbanization
Tenements
paths to the City
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
Urban Transportation
Political Machines
Boss William Marcy Tweed
Tammany Hall
“Doc” Ames
Skyscrapers
Sports in the Cities
Vaudeville
Motion Pictures
Wage Earners and Populism
Haymarket Riot of 1886
August Spies
Knights of Labor Union
Pullman Plant Strike of 1894
Homestead Strike of 1892
National Labor Union
American Federation of Labor
Greenbacks
Panic of 1873
Resumption Act of 1875
Crop Lien
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Cooperatives
Patrons of Husbandry
Grange
Southern Farmers Alliance
Colored Farmers Alliance
Subtreasuries
Initiative and Referendum
Direct Primaries
Direct Elections
Populism
Pinkerton Platform
National Farmers Alliance and Cooperative Union
Panic of 1893
Tom Watson
William Jennings Bryan
Ignatius Donnelly
James B. Weaver
Election of 1896
Origins of Jim Crow
Booker T. Washington
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
Williams vs. Mississippi (1898)
Poll Tax
Grandfather's Clause
Literacy test
Gerrymandering
Brownsville Raid of 1906
Atlanta Riot of 1906
Springfield, Ohio, 1904, 1906
Springfield, Illinois, 1908
Houston Race Riot of 1917
Waco Lynching of 1916
Longview Race Riot, 1919
Huntsville Lynching, 1918
Beastiality Theory
Tuskegee Machine
Atlanta Compromise
Talented Tenth
The Philadelphia Negro
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Niagara Movement
National Urban League (NUL)
Guinn vs. the US, 1915
Buchanan vs. Warley, 1917
Moore vs. Dempsey, 1923
Nixon vs. Herndon, 1927
Nixon vs. Condon, 1932
Smith vs. Allwright, 1944
Marcus Garvey
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Progressivism
Muckrakers
Structural and Social Reform
William L. Strong
Hazen Pingree
Tom L. Johnson
United Mine Workers
Theodore Roosevelt
Bull Moose Party
William Howard Taft
Hepburn Act of 1906
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Sixteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913
Federal Reserve Act
Settlement House Reformers
Jane Addams
Prostitution
W.E.B. Du Bois
The National Child Labor Committee
Ida B. Wells
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
National Association for Colored Women (NACW)
National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA)
New Middle Class Professionals
Coercive Progressives
Eighteenth Amendment
Imperialism
Frederick Jackson Turner
American Exceptionalism
Social Darwinism
White Man's Burden
Alfred Thayer Mahan
McKinley Tariff Act
Queen Liliuokalani
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment, 1898
Maine
Yellow Journalism
Emilio Eguinaldo
Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy
Pancho Villa
Platt Amendment, 1901
World War One
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Otto von Bismarck
Reinsurance Treaty
Dual Alliance
First Balkan War
Second Balkan War
Gavrilo Princip
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Total War
Stalemate
Home front
American Neutrality, 1914-17
Falaba
Lusitania
Sussex
Sussex Pledge
National Defense Act
Preparedness Campaign
Naval Construction Act
"Peace without victory"
Zimmermann Telegram
Volunteerism
War Industries Board
Herbert Hoover
Espionage Act of 1917
Red Scare
Russian Revolution
Eighteenth Amendment
Great Migration
American Expeditionary Force
Red Summer of 1919
Selective Service Act
Brest-Litovsk
Henry Cabot Lodge
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
War Guilt Clause
Sedition Act of 1918
The New Era: 1920s
Urban Culture
Birth of a Nation
Harlem Renaissance
"Negrotarians"
The New Negro
The Crisis
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Walter White
Nella Larsen
Zora Neal Hurston
The New Woman
Sphere of Domesticity
Margaret Sanger
American Birth Control League
Comstock Act, 1876
"Flapper"
Nineteenth Amendment
Al Capone
John Scopes
One Hundred Percent Americanism
D. W. Griffith
Automobile Revolution
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Warren G. Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
The Great Depression and New Deal
Herbert Hoover
Great Bull Market
Great Depression
Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Home Loan Bank System
Bonus March
Emergency Banking Relief Bill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Glass-Steagall Banking Act, 1933
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Jesse Jones
New Dealers
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), 1933
Harold Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Agricultural Administration Act (AAA), 1933
Agricultural Administration Agency (AAA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration (WPA)
Federal Writer' Project (FWP)
Huey Long
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Aubrey Williams
The Black Cabinet
"Share Our Wealth"
Robert Weaver
Father Coughlin
Mary McLeod Beguine
Marion Anderson
Ralph Bunche
National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act, (NLRA), 1935
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Social Security Act (SSA)
New Deal Coalition
World War Two
Joseph Stalin
Great Purges
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust
Mein Kampf
War on Jews
Russo-Japanese War
Open Door
Washington Conference of 1922
Manchuria
The Rhineland
Rome-Berlin Axis
Pact of Steel
Anti-Comintern Pact
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Appeasement
Five Powers Naval Treaty
Nine Powers Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Neutrality Laws of 1935 and 1937
Madagascar Plan
Auschwitz
Final Solution
Nazi New Order
Kristallnacht, 1938
Heinrich Himmler
Third Reich
Lend-Lease
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Tse-tung
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
"Monroe Doctrine for Asia"
Tripartite Pact
Pearl Harbor
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Cordell Hull
War Production Board
Office of Research and Development
Office of Price Administration
Little Steel Formula
"Double V"
A. Philip Randolph
March on Washington (MOW)
Japanese Internment Camps
Battle of Corral Sea
Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze Missions
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Big Three
Operation Overload
Operation Torch
Grand Alliance
Operation Husky
Potsdam Declaration
Enola Gay
D-Day, 1944
V-Day, 1945
Cold War
"Iron curtain"
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Plan
George Kennan
"Sources of Soviet Conflict"
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Revolution
NSC-68 Paper
Kim II Sung
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Taft-Hartley Act
Fair Deal
Joseph McCarthy
House Un-American Committee (HUAC)
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
Vietcong
"Flexible Response"
Domino Theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
War Powers Act of 1973
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tet Offensive
Students for a Democratic Society
Richard Nixon
Vietamization
Decent Interval
Kent State Massacre
Student for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Robert McNamara
William Westmorland
Indochina
Cambodia
Vietcong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem Bien Phu
Maddox
Nguyen Van Thieu
Christmas Bombings
SALT I
SALT II
ICBM
Civil Rights Movement
Mendez vs. Westminster (1947)
Sweatt vs. Painter (1947)
Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954)
Citizen's Council
Earl Warren
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Roy Wilkins
Emmett Till
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Rides
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington (MOW), 1963
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Angela Davis
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
Kate Millett
Sexual Politics
Angela Davis
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Masters and Johnson
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Chicanos
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
La Raza Unida
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Alianza
Bilingualism
American Indian Movement
Immigration and Nationality Act, 1965
Watergate
CREEP
White House Tapes
Democratic National Committee
Archibald Cox
Robert Bork
Spiro Agnew
Gerald Ford
James McCord
E. Howard Hunt
John Dean
Daniel Ellisberg
Pentagon Papers
John Ehrichman
H. R. Halderman
“Saturday Night Massacre”
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