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Final study Guide!
Study Guide: These are mandatory study guides given at the beginning of every unit. They must be handwritten in
your own words. Any study guides that look similar to another’s will be given a zero no questions asked.
Grading Rubric
10 points for the practice multiple choice. 1 point deducted for each incorrect answer.
10 points overall completion. 10 points will be deducted for an incomplete study guide
10 points chronology. Points deducted for each incorrectly placed event.
20 points review questions. Four will be selected from above and worth 5 points each.
Total = 50 points
PART I: This part of the study guide is optional to help you prepare for the exam. I suggest going through each to ensure
that you understand the significance of each term and individual.
red scare
Sacco and Vanzetti
case
Ku Klux Klan
Scopes trial
Immigration Act of
1924
Volstead Act
Fundamentalism
Modernists
“flappers”
Florida land boom
Clarence Darrow
A. Mitchell Palmer
Marcus Garvey
F. Scott Fitzergald
“Ohio Gang”
Adkins v. Children’s
Hospital
American Legion
Five-Power Naval
Treaty of 1922
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fordney-McCumber
Tariff
Teapot Dome
Progressive party
McNary-Haugen Bill
Dawes plan
Agricultural
Marketing Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Black Tuesday
Norris-LaGuardia Act
Reconstruction
Finance Corporation
Bonus Army
Stimson Doctrine
New Deal
Brain(s) Trust
Hundred Days
the “three Rs”
Glass-Steagall Act
Civilian Conservation
Corps
Works Progress
Administration
National Recovery
Administration
Schechter case
Public Works
Administration
Agricultural
Adjustment Act
Dust Bowl
Securities and
Exchange
Commission
Tennessee Valley
Authority
Federal Housing
Authority
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
National Labor
Relations Board
Congress of Industrial
Organizations
American Liberty
League
Roosevelt coalition
Memorial Day
massacre
Court-packing
scheme
Part II. Chronological Awareness
Directions: Place the following events in the correct chronological order. Provide the year of each event.
If one or more of the events listed below do not have a single year in which it took place, provide the
appropriate date ranges.
Wagner Act
Kellog-Briand Pact
Palmer Raids
Teapot Dome
Dawes Plan
Sacco and Vanzetti
Glass-Steagall Act
Scopes trial
Volstead Act
Court Packing scheme
Part II. Critical Thinking Questions
Check your understanding of key concepts of this chapter by answering the following questions in a
paragraph for each.
1.
Describe the dominant themes of American literature in the 1920s. Explain why these themes prevailed.
2.
Do you think that the “noble experiment” of prohibition did more harm than good or vice versa? Explain your view by citing
specific consequences of the prohibition amendment.
3.
Explain how the automobile industry in the 1920s had an impact on the national economy similar to that of the railroad
industry in the 1870s and 1880s.
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4.
In what ways were the three Republican presidents of the 1920s similar, and in what ways were they different? How did
their distinct personalities affect the character and conduct of their administrations?
5.
What evidence indicated throughout the 1920s that the economy was not as healthy as most believed? Why weren’t these
weaknesses addressed?
6.
What was the fundamental cause of the great crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed? What were its secondary
causes? Why did it come so unexpectedly?
7.
In what ways, if any, did the politics and policies of the 1920s reflect the social and cultural transformations of the same
decade? (See Chapter 32.) How could a period of such revolutions in society and culture be accompanied by such
conservative political policies?
8.
How “revolutionary” was the New Deal? Evaluate the significant changes that it wrought and determine how different the
nation became because of it.
9.
Cite at least three New Deal programs that were clearly derived from the pre-World War I progressive movement. In what
ways was the New Deal a fulfillment of the progressive movement, and in what ways was it quite different from it? (See
Chapters 29 and 30.)
10.
In what ways did government action during World War I serve as a precursor to the New Deal? Was the great willingness to
turn to the federal government based in part on the similarity of the Great Depression crisis to a war?
11.
The text asserts that Roosevelt’s greatest achievement was to provide a “middle way” that enabled Americans to preserve
democracy at a time when many other nations were falling under dictatorships of the right or left. How did the New Deal
manage to maintain Americans’ spirits and democratic traditions under severe economic conditions?
Part III. Multiple Choice Practice
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested or
completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then circle the correct answer from the choices
given.
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested or completions. Select the one that is
best in each case and then circle the correct answer from the choices given.
1.
All of the following are true of Hoover’s response to the Great Depression except:
a. He at first stressed the desirability of localism and private initiative rather that government intervention.
b. He saw the Depression as akin to an act of nature, about which nothing could be done except ride it out.
c. He urged the nation’s business leaders to maintain wages and full employment.
d. His strategy for ending the Depression was a failure.
e. He was not able to avoid increasing unpopularity.
2.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in moving the United States toward participation in the First World War?
a. The German use of the tank, machine gun, and poison gas.
b. Germany’s declaration of its intent to wage unrestricted submarine warfare.
c. A German offer to reward Mexico with U.S. territory should it join Germany in a war against the United States.
d. The beginning of the Russian Revolution.
e. The rapidly deteriorating situation for the Allies.
3.
By “normalcy” President Warren G. Harding meant not only peace after the recent war but also
a. A renewal of the Progressive reform movement.
b. A return to an emphasis on domestic reform in place of Wilson’s foreign adventures.
c. An end to idealistic crusades and efforts at large-scale reform.
d. The establishment of new norms of international behavior.
e. U.S. membership in the newly formed League of Nations.
4.
Warren G. Harding may best be characterized as
a. A personally corrupt and dishonest.
b. Unsuccessfully in foreign policy but highly successful in domestic affairs.
c. Having made a number of misjudgments in the men he appointed and with whom he associated.
d. Probably more dedicated to Progressive reform that either Wilson or Roosevelt had been.
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e.
Quiet and taciturn.
5.
All of the following characterized the writing of the “Lost Generation” EXCEPT?
a. disillusionment with materialism and consumerism.
b. heroes as flawed as the villains they struggle against.
c. an acceptance of decadence as the best way to survive in post-World War I society.
d. a sense of lost values and purpose.
e. repugnance at the loss of spirituality in society.
6.
All of the following contributed to the Great Depression except:
a. excessive stocks and securities speculation
b. protectionist trade measures
c. huge farm debt resulting from collapsed crop prices
d. lack of credit to help consumers sustain economic growth
e. an imbalance of distribution of wealth in which the rich controlled far too much of the available income.
7.
The objective of the Bonus Expeditionary Force that marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 was to obtain
a. higher commodity prices for farmers
b. better education for children
c. civil rights for African Americans
d. payment of money to veterans of the First World War
e. legal rights for members of the Communist party.
8.
Which of the following was NOT a reason given by President Franklin Roosevelt in his attempt to “pack” the Supreme
Court?
a. he believed he had a mandate after the 1936 election.
b. most Supreme Court justices were interpreting the Constitution too broadly.
c. he wanted to ease the work load of the Court’s older members.
d. most of the Supreme Court justices were conservative.
e. the Court was declaring too many New Deal programs unconstitutional.
9.
All of the following showed increases that reflected the varying degrees of prosperity of the 1920s except:
a. the stock market
b. consumer goods
c. real estate
d. wages of skilled workers
e. farm income
10. The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was mostly influenced by?
a. massive steel strikes in western Pennsylvania.
b. the shock of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and an epidemic of strikes which rocked the nation.
c. the demobilization of the American Army.
d. the tremendous growth of the Socialist party during World War I.
e. the growth of consumers buying goods on credit.