History 4130
 

Exams will be made up of topics. You should write 3-4 paragraph essays for each of 5 topics. Those 5 topics will be chosen randomly for you from the list of possible topics.

What is common to most identifications is the need to handle the basic "reportorial" questions: Who? What? When? Where? (Answers to these questions are usually presented in the first paragraph)  Why (Historically) Significant? (Answer this question in 2-3 additional paragraphs.)

  • Who is the person? What is the event? the place?
  • What did the person do?  What happened?
  • When did the person do it? When did the event occur? Context?
  • Where did the person do it?
  • Why is it significant? What were the consequences? What does it matter for our own times?
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    How did the person do it?

In trying to identify the significance of a person, place, or thing, step back and look at the "big picture": what distinguishes the item from others of its class? Why is it important enough to appear on a test?

Exam One Exam Two
  1. Wallace Stegner
  2. "Americanization" of Utah
  3. John Wesley Powell
  4. Utah War
  5. Fur trade
  6. Transcontinental Railroad
  7. Dominguez-Escalante expedition
  8. John Charles Fremont
  9. Patrick Connor
  10. Mining
  11. Woman Suffrage in Utah
  12. Fremont people
  13. The Great Depression in Utah
  14. Military in Utah since 1900
  15. Reclamation/water issues
  1. Uintah Reservation
  2. Utah Lake
  3. Mt. Timpanoos
  4. National Parks in Utah
  5. Topaz Relocation Camp
  6. Utah Inidian tribes today
  7. Wakara
  8. Reed Smoot