Possible Essay Questions for Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to 1940

General Explanation of Required Preparation

Instructions for THIS Version of the Essays for Unit 2

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1 One of Your Two Choices

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2 the Other of Your Two Choices

 

General Explanation of Required Preparation

When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook.

You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:

§  Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question

§  Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook

§  If those two things are not enough, I will provide Required Preparation to resources or to specific locations in the textbook

 

 

Instructions for THIS Version of the Essays for Unit 2

1.     All of the Good Habits for Evidence requirements remain.

2.     Your goal remains to understand the history well enough to teach it to someone (like your smart cousin).

3.     You must use only the textbook or my links as a source. (NOTE WELL: Don’t assume or trust what you remember: verify everything with the textbook or my links in the course. Be sure anything you say is verifiably true, or don’t say it.)

4.     You write on ONLY 1 question from the 2 remaining (also marked in pink). You only need to read for and prepare for 1 essay.
The 1 answer that you write is worth 40 points and it will also determine the 10 points for the Good Habits for Evidence grade.

When you click on the Unit 2 Essay Exam, Blackboard displays this single question
Using content from our textbook or links in the course, explain either ONE of these:
EITHER a)
Consumerism from 1900 and the causes of the Great Depression (How was a consumer society vulnerable?)
OR b) German War Guilt clause, Rise of Fascism, and the Munich Agreement (How did these events interconnect?)

5.     You must cite a specific page number for each fact you state from the textbook, but do that by writing (p. the number).
Example: if you have a fact from page 500 OR if you have 3 facts from page 500 in a row, you’d write:
Fact (or facts) from page 500 in your own words (p. 500)

NOTE WELL: you do:
- Not write any ranges of pages – No p. 500-503
- Not write any sets of pages – No p. 500, 505

6.     You must write no more than 1 page maximum. How can you guess what is 1 page when you paste it into Blackboard essay tool? Write in 12 point font, 1.25’ margin left and right, 1” margin top and bottom

7.     You must write at the top a) whether your Ayers textbook is paperback or hardback and b) whether the edition is the 2nd or 3rd or 4th.If you do not see an edition on the textbook or if you see the word Volume on its cover, ask me what to do.

 

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1 One of Your Two Choices

You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one. Notice that some of the questions let you use the same information (such as on consumerism or the Great Depression) for two questions.

Possible Questions

Chapter

Details or Required Preparations

 

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Anthracite coal strike (example of the Square Deal) and the GM sit-down strike (What do they show you about government and labor?)

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Required Preparation: Look in chapter 20 for the Square Deal in the Coal Strike

 

 

 

 

 

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Required Preparation: Look in the index for sit-down strikes

Consumerism from 1900 (What is it?)

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Required Preparation: Read with care how workers’ pay was essential to make consumerism work. See Chapter 21 under the heading “Social and Cultural Change in the Wilson Years.” Notice the chart on the “Model T Ford” and the  subheading ”Automobiles for a Mass Market.”

 

Also, look in the index for consumerism.

For the period covered by this question:

1900+  Beginnings of Consumerism P517 (Also reading method example)

1900+ Beginnings of Consumerism P518 (Also reading method example)pdf

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Required Preparation: Use the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz E to see consumer patterns, including an increase in leisure.

Consumerism from 1900 and the causes of the Great Depression (How was a consumer society vulnerable?)

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Required Preparation: Use the resources above for consumerism

Also use this link to complete the time period for this question:

1920_Great_Depression_Consumerism_P629.pdf

 

 

 

 

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Required Preparation: Use the Resources for Reading Quiz F as a quick way to see all the information on causes of the Great Depression. This  applies to 2 other questions below.

Big business and government (including tax policy) and the causes of the Great Depression

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Required Preparation: Use the SAME required preparation about the Great Depression and consumerism with this possible question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required Preparation: You may focus on a business such as the stock market.

Big business and government and the attempted New Deal for the Great Depression

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Required Preparation: Use the reading quiz questions to identify how business and government changed from the Progressive Era through the 1920s

 

 

 

 

 

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Required Preparation: Use the SAME required preparation about the Great Depression and consumerism with this possible question.

W.E.B. Du Bois to Mary McLeod Bethune (What do they show you about the actions of blacks and government?)

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Required Preparation: Look up their names in the index

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required Preparation: Use the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz E to see what happens to blacks from the Progressive Era through the 1920s.

Required Preparation: Use the chronology link for the New Deal to see what happens to blacks, especially in the period about 1936. Notice the racial events beyond the United States at this time.

 

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2 the Other of Your Two Choices

You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.  Notice that one of the questions lets you use the same information for two questions.

 

Possible Questions

Chapter

Details or Required Preparation

 

20

21

22

23

24

25

 

Roosevelt (TR) Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s (FDR) Good Neighbor Policy

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Required Preparation: Calling something a corollary (something that naturally follows from something else—such as a rule in math) does not make it a corollary.

 

 

 

 

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Required Preparation: Notice the shift with Hoover (Republican) and FDR (Democrat) where they reject Theodore Roosevelt’s interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine:

  • For Hoover’s rejection of it, Chapter 24, “A Darkening World”
  • For Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s continuation of Hoover’s policy, Chapter 25, “The Good Neighbor”

German War Guilt clause, Rise of Fascism, and the Munich Agreement (How did these events interconnect?)

 

 

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Required Preparation: For German War Guilt clause, look in Chapter 22, heading “The Terms of the Peace” and “Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles.” It also is on p. 665: look for the words "to avenge the 'humiliation of Versailles."

Required Preparation: For Fascism, look in Chapter 25, heading The Fascist Challenge.

Required Preparation: for the rest, use the index.

1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP665.pdf

1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP666.pdf

1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP667.pdf

Required Preparation: This shows placing #s (1, 2, 3…) or letters (A, B, C…) beside lists where the author is revealing a set of things leading to something. You are not doing that to memorize but to make yourself observe and to make you recognize what is in that set.

League of Nations, Rise of Fascism, and Munich Agreement (How did these events interconnect?)

 

 

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Required Preparation: Use the SAME required preparation about Fascism above. Required Preparation: for the rest, use the index.

 

 

 

 

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History – Dr. Bibus

 

Contact Information:

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Last Updated:

2014

 

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