final questions

Essays: On separate paper, typed or written legibly, create outlines for each of the following. You will turn them all in. They must be neat, bullet point or outline form, in ink.

1. Why is Theodore Roosevelt considered the most progressive president of all time? (give at least 15 points total about his early life, early political life, and presidency)

2. What were the Major Causes of WWI, and clarify specific events that led to the US entering the war? (list and explain causes. Define terms. Give specific examples. Must cover start of war, and US entry into war.)

3. How did daily life change from 1865 to 1900?


(be specific, and detailed. Life in the city, life on the farm, industry, shipping. Changes in ‘a day in the life’ and how did things look, feel, smell different.)

4. Discuss the concept of Big Business in US History, and how it contributed to the growth of the industrial society.

(cover inventions, growth of industry, life in the cities. Growth of cities, etc. See Test 2 Review on the blog).

5. Discuss the Role of RR in increased agriculture, increased ranching, decreased bison, decreased native Americans.

Intro

RR Developments
Innovations
Transcontinental, etc.

See test review 2.

6. Discuss reform as it applied to urban life and work.

See test 2 review.

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

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