June -2021
B.A (VI Semester) Examination
History
(History of U.S.A (1776-1945))
Paper : BHIS-611 (N/C)
Full Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
Time : Three Hours
Notes: (i) Answer all questions
(ii) The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions.
Section – I
1. Answer any fivequestion: 2x5= 10
a) What was the Sons of Liberty?
b) Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence?
c) Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
d) Write the names of three Progressive Presidents of USA.
e) When did the United States of America enter the Second World War?
Section – II
2. Answer any four of the following questions: 5x4=20
a) What do you understand by Monroe Doctrine?
b) Briefly discuss Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction.
c) What was Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy?
d) Briefly discuss the causes for the entry of US in the Second World War.
e) Discuss in brief about the Great Depression.
Section - III
3. Answer any five of the following questions: 10x5=50
a) Discuss the causes and significance of the American Revolution.
b) What were the impacts of American Civil War on American Social life?
c) Examine the Reconstruction Plan of Congressional Radicals.
d) Critically discuss the American imperialism in the Far-East.
e) Examine William Howard Taft’s domestic and foreign policies.
f) Discuss Woodrow Wilson’s fourteen points. Why his plan was not put into practice?
g) What was the main aim of the New Deal? What did it accomplish?
