HIST/WGST 370
Second Exam Study Guide
The second exam will take place on Thursday, December 13, from 3:00-5:30 pm in our regular classroom. It covers material since the midterm and it is worth 15% of your course grade.
Please bring a blue book and writing instrument.
The exam will consist of 2 I.D.s (30 points), 2 primary document analyses (30 points), and 1 short essay (40 points).
Part I:
2 I.D.s @ 15 points ea. = 30 points
4 will appear on the exam. You will choose 2 to write about.
An I.D. (identification) consists of an important person, event, or term. To complete an I.D., you should 1) explain the pertinent information such as who, what, where, when, why, how; and 2) explain its historical significance. This means that somewhere in your answer you should establish historical context – it is very important to situate your I.D. in time. You should also think about cause and effect relationships. (Was it a result of something? Did it cause something?) Was it representative of a larger phenomenon or trend? Make connections.
In terms of length, each I.D. answer should consist of a thorough paragraph: several sentences.
Possible I.D.s:
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Ida B. Wells
Woman’s Trade Union League
Settlement houses
National Women’s Party
Muller v.
Margaret Sanger
“Rosie the Riveter”
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
Ella Baker
Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964
Phyllis Schlafly
Anita Hill
Part II:
2 primary source analyses @ 15 points ea. = 30 pts.
I will choose 2 primary documents from assigned readings (between Oct 18- Dec 6), and place an excerpt from each on the exam. I will ask a question about the excerpt that allows you to explain its meaning in a short essay of one to two paragraphs.
Note: soon I will place here a list of possible documents eligible for this part of the exam.
Eligible primary sources for this part of the exam:
Agnes Nestor (MAW); Mary Ritter Beard (MAW); Robins, WTUL Purpose (CTools); Emma Goldman (MAW); J. Addams, Why Women Should Vote (online); Feminists Debate ERA – Alice Hamilton only (MAW); Dorothy D. Bromley (MAW); Meridel LeSueur (MAW); Adlai Stevenson (online); Septima Clark (CTools); Robin Morgan, No More Miss America (MAW); Vidal, Chicana Consciousness (CTools); Susan Eisenberg (MAW); Susan Faludi (MAW)
Part III:
Short essay = 40 points
Both of the following questions will appear on the exam. Choose one to answer.
1. In second wave feminism of the 1960s-1970s, how were the women’s rights branch and the women’s liberation branch similar to and different from one another?
2. Why do you think one historian has called the period 1970s-1990s “the best of times and the worst of times” for American women? What achievements and problems did different types of American women experience in this recent period?