AP U.S. History
Unit 9 Review Guide
Unit Assessments:
Chapter 23-24 Quiz
Unit 9 Test
Comes from:
Textbook only
Textbook and notes
Format:
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Allowed aids:
One loose-leaf sheet of your own handwritten
notes
2-3 hours
Recommended
prep time:
25-30 multiple choice questions
50 multiple choice questions
1 short-answer question
1 long-essay question
None
4-6 hours
DIRECTIONS:
- Define the following. Also, when appropriate, explain what caused it, what resulted from it, and why it matters.
Carryover terms:
(can be found in the textbook chapters for Unit 8)
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The New Immigrants
Pendleton Act
Roosevelt Corollary
Chapter 22 (and accompanying notes)
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“Welfare capitalism”
Labor issues:
o The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
o “Open shops”
o The “American Plan”
o The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Immigration to the West and Southwest
Farming problems in the 1920s
The Man Nobody Knows (Bruce Barton)
Birth control in the 1920s
Margaret Sanger
“Flappers”
Journalism in the 1920s, including H.L. Mencken
Literature in the 1920s, including:
o The Great Gatsby
o The Harlem Renaissance
The Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)
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“Wets” and “drys”
Immigration legislation:
o Emergency Quota Act of 1921
o The National Origins Act of 1924
The (second) Ku Klux Klan
The Scopes Trial
Al Smith
Warren Harding and his administration
The Teapot Dome scandal
Calvin Coolidge and his administration
The federal government in the 1920s
Herbert Hoover’s “Associationalism”
Products new to the 1920s
Economics, advertising, and fads
The “celebrity culture” of the 1920s
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The Federal Reserve’s response to the Depression
Farmers and the Depression
The “Dust Bowl”
\Chapter 23 (and accompanying notes)
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The stock market crash: “Black Tuesday”
The causes of the Great Depression
America and the worsening global economic crisis
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The “Scottsboro Nine” (Scottsboro case)
African-Americans and the Depression
Mexican-Americans and the Depression
Women and the Depression
Dale Carnegie
Frank Capra
Walt Disney
John Dos Passos
Society during the Depression
Social values during the Depression
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Radio during the Depression
Movies during the Depression
John Steinbeck
Hoover’s Associationalism and the Depression
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
The Bonus Army
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s background
The Election of 1932 and its aftermath
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The Second New Deal: policies and programs
(handout and book), including
o Wagner Act
o Resettlement Administration
o Social Security Act
o Fair Labor Standards Act
o … and others
The “Court-packing plan” of 1937
The “Roosevelt recession” of 1937
The end of the New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in the FDR administration
The “Black Cabinet”
African-Americans and the New Deal
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Frances Perkins
Women and the New Deal
The West and the New Deal
Short-term consequences of the New Deal
Long-term consequences of the New Deal
Chapter 24 (and accompanying notes)
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The “3 R’s”
The First Hundred Days (First New Deal): policies
and programs (handout and book), including…
o Bank Holiday
o Emergency Banking Act
o Glass-Steagall Act
o Security and Exchange Commission
o Agricultural Adjustment Act
o Farm Security Administration
o National Recovery Administration
o Tennessee Valley Authority
o Civilian Conservation Corps
o Civil Works Administration
o … and others
Dr. Francis Townsend
Father Charles Coughlin
Huey P. Long
Unions, organized labor, and the New Deal
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Chapter 25 (and accompanying notes)
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
The Dawes Plan of 1924
Axis ideology and tactics:
o Fascism
o Totalitarianism
o Appeasement
Japan and Manchuria
FDR and foreign policy
o The “Good Neighbor Policy”
o American isolationism during the
Depression
The Neutrality Act of 1935
The Neutrality Act of 1937
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FDR’s “quarantine” speech
The Panay incident
The Munich Conference of 1938
The causes of World War II
American foreign policy at the outset of World War
II
The Election of 1940
The America First Committee
The “lend-lease” plan
The Atlantic Charter of 1941
Pearl Harbor
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The Holocaust and America’s response
The Smith-Connally Act of 1943
Inflation during World War II
Chapter 26 (and accompanying notes)
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U.S. wartime mobilization, including the production
“miracle”
The federal budget during World War II
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German war technology during World War II
The braceros program
The “zoot-suit riots”
Chinese Americans during the War
Japanese Americans during the War
Korematsu v. United States
Wartime consumer and entertainment trends
The Election of 1944
Allied strategy:
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the Allied order of attack
The Allied invasion of France in 1944 (also
called “Operation Overlord” or “D-Day”)
o American strategy in the Pacific
Axis strategy, including key Axis mistakes
The wartime conferences: Casablanca, Teheran,
Yalta, Potsdam
The Manhattan Project
Possible Long-Essay Questions:
(one will be chosen at random the day of the test)
1. (Periodization) Some historians argue that the New Deal represents the beginning of the modern welfare state.
Support, modify, or refute this contention using specific evidence.
2. (Causation) "To avert a vast, indefinite butchery, to bring the war to an end, to give peace to the world…
the cost of a few explosions [the atomic bomb] seemed, after all our toils and perils, a miracle of
deliverance." Support, modify, or refute this contention using specific evidence.