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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 21st 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.
Document Based Question: Read each Quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural
Address and be able to state the following on a separate piece of paper:
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Identify main idea: inspiration, blame, strategy/policy, constitutional change
Provide Quote to support main idea
Explain Quote in your own words
Quote 1
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely
and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating
the task as we would treat the emergency of war, but at the same time, through this employment,
accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.”
Quote 2
“The great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert
my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to covert retreat into advance.”
Quote 3
“True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by
failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by
which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading
tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have
no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.”