Wednesdays, 6:15-8:45
Electronic Resource Center, Eisenhower Library, Homewood Campus
 
 

This is a take-home exam.  You may consult any and all of the documents and readings we have completed to date, but be sure to footnote all quotes.  Plagiarism rules as noted on the syllabus, apply.

Return the completed exam to me at the beginning of next week's class on disk (I will be in the ERC from 6:15 to 6:30 p.m. next week, December 20) or Email it to me at edpapen@flash.net (NOTE THE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS) by 6:30 p.m. on the 20th.  Late exams are automatic failures.
 
 
 

Part I, Identifications

(choose five worth up to 10 points each); explain who or what, why, where and when for each as well as exlaining the importance of each to Maryland History.
 

1) Anna Ella Carroll

2) Albert Ritchie, H. L. Mencken, and Harry W. Nice

3) Donald Gaines Murray

4) Balanced Budget Amendment to the State Constitution

5) 1919, 1920, and 1934 elections (two state and one Federal)

6) Frederick Douglass

7) Charles Carroll of Carrollton

8) William Murray

9) Columbian Orator

10) Columbian Exposition

11) Juanita Jackson Mitchell

12) Spiro Agnew

13) Theodore McKeldin

14) Robert Mack Bell

15) 1908 local legislation for Annapolis re: voting, passed by the General Assembly

16) Savings and Loan Crisis of 1987
 
 

Part II (answer 1 only; worth up to 50 points)
 

1) It has been said that after 1870 the African American vote in Maryland kept a two-party democracy viable in Maryland.  Do you agree?  Explain why in some detail, examining, in light of your answer to the question, the major changes that have taken place in the state's political landscape over the past 130 years.

2) Compare and contrast Maryland in 1893 with Maryland in 2000.  Pay particular attention to how state government served us then and serves us now, but don't neglect demographic, social, and economic change, nor changes in the environment.