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

General Tips

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

 

General Tips

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

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

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 Tips

 

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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

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.

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:

1920_Great_Depression_Consumerism_P629.pdf

 

 

 

 

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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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip: 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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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.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

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 Tips

 

20

21

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23

24

25

 

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 (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

 

 

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Tip: 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."

 

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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