Content for Unit 2

Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to 1940

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What is self-testing and how can it help you?

Possible Essay Questions

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3 Parts of the Unit and Resources and Reading Quizzes D, E, and F

Topic and Chapter #s

Links to the Reading Quiz for the Topic, Resources to Help You See the Facts As Part of the Whole, and Optional References

Progressivism: Roosevelt to Wilson

Chapters 20-21

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Resources and Reading Quiz

· Quiz D - printable for back-to-back use with the version with answers – Form to use to record your answers or handwritten if looks exactly like this

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1901-1914 Era (administrations of Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Taft and of Democrat Wilson)
What are you looking for?

- Notice the new trends in American life.

- Notice how the political parties are working and what is leading to reform.

- Notice the former categories of labor (usually factory workers) and farmers.

- Notice the new groups that are trying to alter their position in American politics and life.

· Sketching the differences in the 3 presidents – the sketch as a PDF
Tip: Looking at my sketch may help some of you. Making your own sketch as you read can help all of you. The only difference in a sketch I was doing for my use only iis that I would add page numbers to the sketch—not because I plan to cite, but because sooner or later I will have to retrace where I found a piece of evidence.

World War I
and Its Transformations Including Mass Culture

Chapters 21-23

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Resources and Reading Quiz

· Quiz E - printable for back-to-back use with the version with answers

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1914-1921 Era (administration of Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, during World War I and the peace)
What are you looking for?

- Notice what is happening in Europe in the years leading to war and how we get in the war.

- Notice the new agencies in the national government created in response to World War I.

· Snapshot from the 1870s to 1920s (PDF) (a comparison between 1870s-1890s, 1895 to about 1920, and the Jazz Age (the 1920s)

How to use this resource to see how people, events, and trends fit together and change:

- Use the PDF find feature to search for a name.

- Look at rows on a specific issue to see change over time. Example: By looking at the rows on leisure, for example, you can see how things changed during the periods from the 1870s-1890s, from about 1895 to about 1920, and in the 1920s (also called the Jazz Age).

What are you looking for?

- Notice what is going on in different areas (regions) and eras (time periods) of American life, including what is disappearing.

- Notice the former categories of labor (usually factory workers), farmers, and the new number of white collar workers.

- Notice how leisure changed over these three eras and in particular how it is in the Jazz Age.

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1921-1929 Era (administrations of Harding and Coolidge and the election of Hoover, all Republicans)
What are you looking for?

- Notice what is changing in this period in foreign policy (including disarmament in the early years) and notice the reparations-debt cycle.

- Notice big business and government.

- Notice the former category of farmers and the new interest group of veterans.

Great Depression, Seeds of the New Deal, and The New Deal and New Challenges

Chapters 24-25

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Resources and Reading Quiz

· Quiz F - printable for back-to-back use with the version with answers

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1929-1933 Era (Republican administration of Hoover and the Great Crash and the first years of the depression
What are you looking for?

- Notice the categories of laborers, farmers, and veterans and the new category of the unemployed.

- Notice government efforts to help business and later to provide relief (aid to people with food and shelter)

- Notice foreign policy changes.

· Thinking Tools to Help You with the Great Depression and the New Deal (tools to help you understand the crisis of the Great Depression and what the New Deal did in response to the elements of that crisis).
What are you looking for?

- What does the textbook show you about the reasons for the failure of the stock market? the crisis of liquidity of the banks? the country’s fundamentals for banks, business, and farmers? the workers?

- What is the connection between each problem in the crisis and each policy in the New Deal?

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1933-1939 Era (Footnotes provide descriptions to help you keep this era straight.)
What are you looking for?

- Notice the problems and the policies.

- Notice the new institutions created in this period.

>>> TEMPORARY link of questions with answers for three quizzes for this Unit (I will remove all but Quiz F’s Monday): 1302_quiz_D_withanswers_Printable.pdf, 1302_Quiz_E_with_answers_Printable.pdf 1302_Quiz_F_Printable_OC_WITH_Answers.pdf – Test yourself with the quiz without answers at the top. Grade yourself with these answers. Read what you do not know.

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