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Robert Pierce

History 17B Second Essay -- Summer session

Part One - 50% (You will be asked to answer one)
  1. Years after World War I Charles Lindbergh said, "If we go to war to save democracy, we may end up by losing it at home." Lindbergh meant that war seems to curtail and limit civil liberties. Is this what happened in World War I in the United States? Discuss and give examples to support your opinion.
  2. Compare Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism to that of Woodrow Wilson. Which one do you think was the most reform oriented and which the most conservative?
  3. Discuss the position of African Americans in the Progressive era and compare the major views of black thought as represented by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois.
Part Two - 50% (you will be asked to answer four)

  1. Ida Tarbell
  2. Lusitania
  3. Zimmerman Telegram
  4. 14 Points
  5. Bull Moose Party
  6. BookerT Washington
  7. W. E. B. DuBois
  8. Sedition Act of 1918
  9. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
  10. Robert La Follette
  11. New Nationalism
  12. New Freedom
  13. Federal Reserve Act
  14. John J. Pershing


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