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 * Essay 1** -- Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from a rural to an urban environment in the United States between 1875 and 1925. [Units 6 and 8]


 * Essay 2** -- Compare the debates that took place over the American expansionism in the 1840s with those that took place in the 1890s, analyzing the similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras. [Unit 4]


 * Essay 3** -- How successful were Progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to each of the following: industrial conditions, politics, urban life?


 * Essay 4** -- Analyze the ways in which state and federal legislation and judicial decisions, including those of the Supreme Court, affected the efforts of each of the following groups to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920: African Americans, farmers, workers.


 * Essay 5** -- "The Progressive movement of 1901 to 1917 was a triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism." Assess the validity of this statement.


 * Essay 6** -- Assess the relative importance of each of the following in the American decision to declare war on Germany in 1917: German naval policy, American economic interests, Woodrow Wilson's idealism, Allied propaganda, America's claim to world power.


 * Essay 7** -- Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers and the federal government in bringing about reform at the national level. Be sure to analyze the successes and limitations of these efforts in the period 1900 to 1920.


 * Essay 8** -- "The United States entered the First World War not 'to make the world safe for democracy' as President Wilson proclaimed, but to safeguard American economic interests." Assess the validity of this statement.


 * Essay 9** -- To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt in regard to each of the following: labor, conservation, trusts, world affairs?


 * Essay 10** -- To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War?


 * Essay 11** -- Explain how each of the following individuals responded to the economic and social problems created by industrialization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Upton Sinclair. [Unit 6]


 * Essay 12** -- Analyze the ways in which the federal government sought support on the home front for the war effort during the First World War.


 * Essay 13** -- Analyze the extent to which the Spanish-American War was a turning point in American foreign policy.


 * Essay 14** -- Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on each of the following: politics, social conditions, and labor and working conditions.


 * Essay 15** -- Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in addressing problems of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In your answer, focus on reform efforts in each of the following areas: state and federal government, the workplace, living condition in cities.


 * Essay 16** -- Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.