Studying the Textbook and Documents for the Matching Section of the Exam

--Documents--Know who the people are who wrote the documents, e.g., Zitkala-sa, Chief Joseph, or what the document is about, e.g., The Flapper, The Scopes Trial

--Textbook
--As you read each chapter, note names and events in headings throughout the chapter, e.g., Chapter 33 headings mention the New Immigration, Pres.Clinton, Yugoslavian Turmoil, Middle East, the Internet Revolution; Chapter 32 headings mention things like the Conservative Rebellion, Election of 1980, Pres. Reagan, Iran-Contra, Glasnost, Elections of 1988 and 1992, the Gulf War; Chapter 17 mentions things like Presidential Reconstruction, Lincoln's 10% Plan, Andrew Johnson, 14th Amendment, Johnson's Impeachment, the Freedmen's Bureau, Election of 1876, and so forth.

--As you read each chapter, note names and information in the outside margins, e.g., Chapter 18, Exodusters, Crop-lien system, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Chivington massacre, Buffalo soldiers, Battle of the Little Big Horn, Chief Joseph, Susette La Flesche, Helen Hunt Jackson, the Dawes Act, Wounded Knee; Chapter 19, Thomas Edison, telegraph, telephone, RR time, pooling, horizontal growth, vertical integration, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, and so forth.

--Look at maps and pictures to see if they have names or events listed, e.g., Chapter 19, p. 542, picture of Thomas Edison,  and so forth

--Study the Significant Events section at the end of each chapter.

--As you read the chapters themselves, note names and events within the sections that seem to be important.
 

Essay Questions

--A good essay answer has an Introductory Paragraph, a Middle Section of several paragraphs that fill in details, and a Concluding Paragraph.

--The Introductory Paragraph
          --Should start with a sentence that shows you've read and understood the question.
          --The other sentences should say what you are going to do in the rest of the essay.

--The Middle Section
          --Should include several paragraphs, each on one point you have set out in your Introductory Paragraph

--Concluding Paragraph
          --Can be short--just a sentence or two.
          --Either sums up what you've said in the essay, or raises questions for the future.
 

Example of how an essay could be written

Sample Essay Question:   Compare and contrast the 1890's with the 1990's politically, socially, economically, diplomatically and culturally.

Sample Introductory Paragraph:
          A hundred years separates the 1890's from the 1990's.  Many things have changed in that time.  Looking at the two decades together, we see that there are many differences, but there are also a surprising number of similarities.  This essay will explore the similarities and differences between the two decades politically, socially, economically, diplomatically, and culturally.

Sample of what now should be in the Middle Section:
           A paragraph or more on politics in the two decades (e.g., Democrats, Republicans differences then and 1990's; Populists vs. Reform Party)
           A paragraph or more on society in the two decades (e.g., immigration, segregation)
           A paragraph or more on economics (e.g., types of industry, importance of farming)
           A paragraph or more on diplomacy (e.g., the Spanish-American War vs. the Gulf War)
           A paragraph or more on cultural issues (e.g., Nativism, Social Darwinism vs. Conservatism)

Sample of Concluding Paragraph:  [Sum up]
           As this essay shows, there are more differences than similarities between these two decades [or vice versa, whatever you've found].  In all five areas, politics, society, economics, diplomacy, and cultural issues, the decades are far apart.  Yet enough similarities exist to make the 1890's seem hauntingly familiar to us in the year 2001.

Or [Ask a question]--After comparing these two decades, it seems there are many questions in our own decade that we can look at through the lens of the past.  What questions will people a hundred years from now be asking of us?