Take Home Test.

Essays: On separate paper, typed or written legibly, write answers for the following questions. Pick 4.



1. List and Explain the advantages the Colonials had in the Revolutionary War.

2. What were the Major Causes of WWI, and clarify specific events that led to the US entering the war?

3. How did the ending of WWI lead to WW2?

4. Describe the US economy in the 1920’s. What factors led to it’s rise and fall?

5. What effects did the Great Depression have on ways of life in the 30’s in America?

6. How did the FDR administration and the New deal Address the Great Depression, redefine the role of government, and affect American life?

7. What were the concerns, successes, and limitations of progressivism?

8. How did inventions, production and power transform work production and labor in the early 20th century?

9. Describe the events leading to WWII, starting with the End of WWI, and ending with the US’ entry into war.

10. What were the key people and events of the Civil Rights Movement in the 50’s and 60’s?

11. Give a basic chronology of Vietnam. Reference the War, and the US Perception and Response to the War.

12. How did advances in technology affect the ‘face’ of the American west?

13. What were the major factors contributing to the urbanization of America in the late 19th/Early 20th century?

Cultural Literacy Terms:
Identify Each of these terms AND explain it’s significance to the Era of it’s time. Complete sentences are recommended to help preclude ambiguity.


1. Brown v. Board of Education
2. Watergate
3. MLK Jr.
4. Gulf of Tonkin
5. Ho Chi Mihn
6. Pentagon Papers
7. Appeasement
8. Axis Powers
9. Midway
10. Pearl Harbor
11. Okinawa
12. Battle of Britain
13. Dunkirk
14. Maginot Line
15. Sudetenland
16. Stalingrad
17. Bay of Pigs
18. Berlin Wall
19. Sputnik
20. Brinksmanship
21. Containment
22. New Deal
23. Dallas 1963
24. Bay of Pigs
25. Cuban Missile Crisis
26. Dust Bowl
27. Prohibition
28. Watergate
29. Khmer Rouge
30. Beatniks
31. Internment
32. Holocaust
33. Freedom Riders
34. Battle of the Bulge
35. McCarthyism
36. The Maine
37. Alvin York
38. Treaty of Versaille
39. Bessemer Process
40. Seabiscuit
41. Robber Baron
42. Andrew Carnegie
43. Spanish Influenza