Study Guide
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US History
1920s, Great Depression/New Deal Unit Assessment Study Guide
Format of the Exam:
- Multiple Choice
- Document Analysis
- Defining Terms
- Political Cartoon Analysis
Content:
1920’s
- Harlem Renaissance
- Description of the 1920’s as consumerist, materialistic
- President’s philosophies for the economy: laissez-faire & pro-business
- Vocab: Corporation & Stock
- Tradition vs. Modernity
- Flappers/New Woman
- 18th and 19th Amendments
Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)
- Beginning of the Great Depression/Causes of the Great Depression
- Black Tuesday
- Characteristics of a Depression
- Hoover vs. Roosevelt Philosophies for combating the Great Depression
- New Deal legislation (100 Day Congress: FDIC, SSA, CCC, WPA, etc.
- Effects of the New Deal on American History
- Criticisms of the New Deal from Conservatives
- African Americans and Women in the New Deal