American Political Ideas POLS 384

Review Midterm Exam- Spring 2010

Possible Major Essay Questions:

1. Compare, contrast and assess Booker T. Washington’s and W.E.B. Du Bois’ ideas of race and race relations in the United States.

2. Compare, contrast and assess the political and economic ideas of William Graham Sumner and Orestes Brownson.

3. Identify and explain two significant problems and possible solutions confronting the American political order between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. Be certain to reference the arguments from the course texts.