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United States History II Study Guide: Quarter 1 MCA
1.
What event was the Red Scare a response to?
2.
What is isolationism? When did the United States follow this policy?
3.
What did consumers begin to do in the 1920s that helped the economy grow?
4.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
5.
What was one result, or long term effect, of Prohibition?
6.
How did installment plans affect the American economy in the 1920s?
7.
What did the use of the assembly line allow Henry Ford to do? (besides producing cars faster)
8.
How did life change for American women in the 1920’s?
9.
What was the general outlook of Americans in the 1920s in terms of business and the economy?
10.
What was one sign that the economy was weakening in the 1920s?
11.
What did most investors do when stock prices began to drop rapidly at the end of October
1929?
12.
What did the 21 st Amendment bring an end to in 1933?
13.
Describe the appearance of the American economy in the 1920s.

14.
What group of people faced economic hard times through the majority of the 1920s before most people felt the depression?
15.
What is overproduction? What was this a sign of in the 1920s?
16.
What did President Hoover believe the best strategy for ending the Great Depression was?
17.
What did Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt disagree about in the 1932 election?
18.
What did Franklin Roosevelt promise Americans that helped him to win the 1932 election?
19.
What were the main goals of the New Deal?
20.
What was the goal of government funded Public Works programs?
21.
Why did FDR declare a “bank holiday” early in his administration?
22.
What New Deal program was created to offer payments to people who could not afford to support themselves?
23.
What group of people benefited the most from the programs of the New Deal?
24.
What did Roosevelt push Congress to do during his first 100 days in office?
25.
What was FDR’s “brain trust”?
26.
What New Deal programs were under President Roosevelt’s Recovery philosophy?
27.
What New Deal programs were under President Roosevelt’s Relief philosophy?

28.
What New Deal programs were under President Roosevelt’s Reform philosophy?
29.
In what way did FDR influence the Supreme Court?
30.
In what way did the New Deal affect labor unions?
Essay Portion- complete the following on a separate piece of paper. Answer with as much detail as possible keeping in mind the MCA rubric used for written responses.
1.
What were four causes of the Great Depression, and how did they affect American society?
2.
Discuss four of Herbert Hoover’s strategies that he developed in an attempt to address the economic crisis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
3.
Identify and discuss at least three programs addressing banking or unemployment which Roosevelt put in place as part of the New Deal. You must give the name of the program (abbreviation is not acceptable, must give full name), the purpose and result/s.