Possible
Essay Questions for Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 Possible Choices You Will
Have for Question 1 Possible Choices You Will
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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 tips to resources or to specific locations in the textbook
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.
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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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Tip: Look
in chapter 20 for the Square Deal in the Coal Strike |
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Tip: Look
in the index for sit-down strikes |
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Consumerism from 1900 (What
is it?) |
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Tip: 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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Tip: Use
the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz E to see consumer patterns,
including an increase in leisure. |
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Consumerism from 1900 and the
causes of the Great Depression (How was a consumer society vulnerable?) |
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Tip: Use
the resources above for consumerism Also use this link to
complete the time period for this question: |
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Tip: Use
the Resources for Reading Quiz F as a quick way to see all the information on
causes of the Great Depression. This
tip applies to 2 other questions below. |
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Big business and government
(including tax policy) and the causes of the Great Depression |
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Tip: Use
the SAME tip about the Great Depression and consumerism with this possible
question. |
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Tip: You may
focus on a business such as the stock market. |
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Big business and government
and the attempted New Deal for the Great Depression |
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Tip: Use
the reading quiz questions to identify how business and government changed
from the Progressive Era through the 1920s |
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Tip: Use
the SAME tip about the Great Depression and consumerism with this possible
question. |
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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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Tip: Look
up their names in the index |
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Tip: Use
the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz E to see what happens to blacks
from the Progressive Era through the 1920s. Tip: 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. |
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 |
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Roosevelt (TR) Corollary to
the Monroe Doctrine and Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s (FDR) Good Neighbor Policy |
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Tip:
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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Tip:
Notice the shift with Hoover and FDR. |
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German War Guilt clause,
Rise of Fascism, and the Munich Agreement |
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Tip: For Fascism, look in Chapter 25, heading The Fascist Challenge. Tip: for
the rest, use the index. 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP665.pdf 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP666.pdf 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP667.pdf Tip: 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 |
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Tip: Use the SAME tip about Fascism above.Tip: for the rest, use the index. |
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