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Possible
Essay Questions for Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 |
The 2 essays
work this way.
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You
write 2 essays on the exam that ends the Unit. You can prepare because you see all of the possible questions below.
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When you
actually take the exam essays, I provide a pile of narrow strips of paper with
choices for each of those essays so each of you see different tests. When you
finish your objective test, you hand it in to me and pick up the top strip from the pile. You can write
on either one of the choices.
General Tip: 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 Reading Quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook
Click here
for the link to preventions provided after you receive feedback on your History
Changes Essay.
Click here to go to the prevention specifically to help you read for a question
for the Unit 2 essays, plan the answer, and write accurately. It now
includes additional tips for those who plagiarized or who were factually
inaccurate.
The narrow strip will include 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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The narrow strip will include 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.
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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. |
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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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