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Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 Possible
Essay Questions for This Unit 3 Parts of
the Unit, Resources, and Check Your Knowledge Quizzes D, E, and F |
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possible essay questions on the Unit exam. They show you what combinations of
facts to examine so you can notice how history changed during the Unit.
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that ends Unit 2.
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Parts in the Unit and Chapter #s |
Links to the Check Your Knowledge Quiz (1st
for tips and links; 2nd for recording), Resources to See Facts As
Part of the Whole, and Optional References |
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Progressivism:
Roosevelt to Wilson Chapters
20-21 |
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Quiz D Check
Your Knowledge – Quiz D for Recording - Tip You want to record such things as what you missed and
why, textbook page numbers where you found the answer, and what quiz
questions are also part of essays questions. ·
Study Tool: Chronological
Events of the 1901-1914 Era
(administrations of Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Taft and of Democrat
Wilson) -
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 |
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World
War I Chapters
21-23 |
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Quiz E Check
Your Knowledge – Quiz E for Recording - Tip You want to record such things as what you missed and
why, textbook page numbers where you found the answer, and what quiz
questions are also part of essays questions. ·
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1914-1921 Era (administration of Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat,
during World War I and the peace) -
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) -
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). Purpose: -
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) -
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. |
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Great
Depression, Seeds of the New Deal, and The New Deal and New Challenges Chapters
24-25 |
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Quiz F Check
Your Knowledge – Quiz F for Recording - Tip You want to record such things as what you missed and why,
textbook page numbers where you found the answer, and what quiz questions are
also part of essays questions. ·
Study
Tool: Chronological Events of the 1929-1933 Era
(Republican administration of Hoover and the Great Crash and the first years
of the depression. These
problems started before Hoover’s administration.) -
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. -
Notice foreign policy changes. ·
Tools to help you confirm you read the textbook
fully and understand the crisis of the Great Depression. These tools are
handwritten but they show sets of related facts about: -
What does the textbook show you about the reasons for the failure of
the stock market? -
AND about the crisis of liquidity of the banks and the failure of the banks and how that
interconnects with the stock market - AND about the country’s fundamentals for the rich, farmers, and business--including GNP and market saturation, including the GNP and market saturation? - AND about the workers and about the responses in the first three years of this depression? ·
Tools to help you see the crisis on a single page
and to see the connection between each problem in the crisis and each policy
in the New Deal: -
The table of problems without the New Deal
Solutions – Try to complete
the right side of the chart on your own before you look at the answers. -
The table of problems with the New Deal
Solutions Reference
If You Have a Question ·
About events
and programs from 1933 to 1939, Study Tool: Chronological Events
of the 1933-1939 Era |
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