HUSH Unit Seven Study Guide
The Twenties and Thirties
10/24
10/25
10/28
10/29
10/30
10/31
11/1
Topic
The Roaring Twenties
Politics in the Twenties
The Great Depression
The New Deal
The Effects of the New Deal
Review
Unit 7 Exam
essential question
Why did social changes cause tension in the 20’s?
What did Harding mean by a “return to normalcy”?
Why the U.S. enter into a Great Depression?
How did FDR respond to the Great Depression?
How did the New Deal change American politics?
Homework Questions – On your paper, restate the question and answer using complete sentences.
Due Thurs 10/24
p. 539-546– Social Tensions of the Twenties
1. In the 1920’s what were some differences in the beliefs of urban Americans and rural Americans?
2. What was John Scopes found guilty of in the Scopes Trial?
3. What was the quota system and what did it demonstrate?
4. Provide an overview of the Eighteenth Amendment?
5. Why did organized criminals make it hard to enforce prohibition?
Due Fri 10/25
p. 534-538– The Business of Government
1. What did President Harding and Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon raise to help U.S. business?
2. What did Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall do wrong in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
3. Who became President after Warren G. Harding died?
4. How did Coolidge attempt to help U.S. business?
5. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact and why was it ineffective?
Due Mon 10/28
p. 570-576– Causes of the Depression
1. Who was elected President in 1928?
2. What problems did farmers face after World War I?
3. What problem was hidden by easy credit?
4. What happened on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
5. What conditions did the U.S. face from 1929 to 1941?
Due Tues 10/29
p. 600-607– FDR Offers Relief and Recovery
1. What were the three goals of FDR’s New Deal?
2. What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?
3. What did the Civilian Conservation Corp do?
4. How did the government help farmers?
5. Who was Huey Long and what did he propose?
Due Weds 10/30
p. 616-625– Effects of the New Deal
1. How did Eleanor Roosevelt change the role of the First Lady?
2. Who was Frances Perkins and why was she important?
3. What was the Black Cabinet?
4. What did the Indian Reorganization Act and the Bureau of Indian Affairs do?
5. Under the New Deal explain three ways that the federal government changed.
Key Terms – due 10/31
1. Sacco and Vanzetti (517)
3. Model T (529)
5. Teapot Dome Scandal (535)
7. National Industry Recovery Act (605)
9. The Lost Generation (554)
11. Zora Hurston (562)
13. Bonus Army (591)
15. Flappers
(552)
17. Hoovervilles (580)
19. buying on margin (532)
21. Dust Bowl (583)
23. Harlem Renaissance
2. Scopes Monkey Trial (540)
4. Black Tuesday (574)
6. Public Works Administration (605)
8. The TVA (605)
10. Langston Hughes (562)
12. the National Youth Administration (613)
14. the WCTU (426)
16. Laissez Faire (620)
18. Emergency Quota Act of 1921 (541)
20. Marcus Garvey (559)
22. Huey Long (607)
24. “Okies”
Unit Seven Essential Questions – due 10/31
1. What was the focus of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
2. What Amendments started and ended prohibition?
3. Why was prohibition difficult to enforce?
4. What social change did flappers symbolize in the 1920s?
5. What was significant about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
6. How did quotas affect immigrants from Eastern Europe?
7. Which president said “the business of the American people is business”?
8. What happened to farmers during the Twenties?
9. When did the stock market crash? What led to the crash?
10. What did Hoover mean by “rugged individualism”?
11. How did Hoover handle the Depression?
12. Why did the Bonus Army come to D.C.? What happened to them?
13. What was a Hooverville?
14. What is the main philosophy behind the New Deal?
15. How did FDR communicate his compassion to the American people?
16. Describe the Civilian Conservation Corps.
17. What was the purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
18. What did the Supreme Court rule in Schetner v. U.S.?
19. How did Roosevelt react to the ruling?
20. What was the overall impact of the New Deal?
21. Explain the Social Security Act?
22. How did Eleanor Roosevelt change the role of the first lady?