FINAL EXAM GUIDELINES

SCHMOLL/FINAL EXAM/HISTORY 232

This must be either emailed to me or handed to me by Monday, June 9^th at midnight. Anything submitted after that time will be an automatic 0% (F). Each question is worth 20% of the final exam.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO EMAIL THIS, YOU MAY SIMPLY NUMBER THE QUESTIONS; YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE EACH QUESTION OUT.

1. How are the following events that we have covered this quarter connected?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Sinking of the Lusitania

Works Progress Administration

D Day

The SCUM Manifesto

2. Which quote best represents the U.S. during the period we have studied? Explain why you chose that quote:

“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”

Nelson Mandela

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”

H.L. Mencken

“It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.”
                                                              Henry Cabot Lodge

“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.”

Barack Obama

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

Oscar Wilde

3. For each map, explain what each of these places has to do with anything we have studied this quarter?

  (MEXICO)

  (THE PHILIPPINES)

  (VIETNAM)

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4. Consider the passage of the 19^th Amendment, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the entrance into Vietnam. At what point (time, date?) did each become INEVITABLE?

The 19^th Amendment became inevitable when…

Dropping of the Atomic Bomb became inevitable when…

Entrance into Vietnam became inevitable when…

Next, create a theory of inevitability. In general, when does any event become inevitable?

THEORY OF INEVITABILITY: An event becomes inevitable when…

5. How is your major or area of career interest connected to anything at all in this course?