CH 11-12 Study Guide. This should in NO way substitute for your readings. As always, expect to see primary
sources, photos, graphs, speeches, readings, etc.
Know how one would make a profit by buying stock on margin. In other words, how did buying stock on margin remain
profitable.
Jazz was an American hybrid of African American and European music forms.
Know about urban unemployment at the onset of the Great Depression
Why was formal education more important for urban Americans than rural Americans?
What was the main rhetoric in the election of 1932 in terms of new leadership? How did Americans feel about the current
President at the time and what did they feel America now needed?
Know about farmers during the 1920s.
Why did so many African Americans migrate north throughout the 1920s?
Know about volunteerism
During the 1920s, the United States economy moved through expansion, business cycle phase.
What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great Depression?
Know about the Dust Bowl
How did the Red Scare add to nativist opposition to immigration?
Know about the Teapot Dome Scandal during Harding’s administration; it involved transferring oil reserves from the
Navy Department to the Interior Department and then forgot about the Navy’s needs
Know about the Bonus Army’s march to Washington DC
What did some Americans blamed the Great Depression on?
Know about the demand for automobiles in the 1920s and how it affected society and business.
Know about the flappers.
Marcus Garvey’s movement fall apart because there was no effective leadership after Garvey was deported to Jamaica.
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What factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?
Know about the Harlem Renaissance
Be able to connect how the uneven distribution of nation’s wealth played a role on the road to the Great Depression.
In the 1920s, most national leaders hope to go about avoiding war by avoiding close interaction with other nations
Know how the concerns of the Mexican Americans and African Americans were treated Under President Coolidge
Know about the changing attitudes of people living in developing suburbs
What was the condition of America’s economy following World War I?
Know about Louis Armstrong and his role during the “Jazz Age”.
Know what were some factors that contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas
Know how the Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl
Know about Black Tuesday
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance explored the pains and joys of being black in America.
Know about the American farmers as a group during 1920s
European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by passing high protective tariffs.
How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?
Know about the differences between Urban and Rural lifestyles during the 1920s
Know about Hoover’s response to the Great Depression
Falling prices for crops and livestock contributed to the plight of rural farmers
The unemployment rate among African Americans was nearly double the national rate.
What did President Coolidge believe about the creation of wealth?
What was the significance of Harlem?
Which two officials did the Teapot Dome oil scandal involve?
Know about the Scopes Trial
Why did the stock market crash in 1929?
African Americans in the 1920s faced discrimination, especially in the South, where the Jim Crow laws were in effect.
Congress instituted the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to loan money to banks so that they could lend money
to businesses to stimulate economic activity