Review Sheet for Exam 2

Key Terms:

Race Relations:  Marcus Garvey, Separatism, UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association, pan-Africanism, Tulsa Race Riot, Rosewood, The Birth of a Nation.
Philosophies:  Laissez-faire, Progressivism,
Progressivism:  Muchrackers, Sanitary Meat and Inspection, The Jungle, at-large elections, Social Gospel, 16th-19th Amendments.
World War I :  Central Powers, Allied Powers, Battle of the Somme, Zimmerman Telegram, Lusitania, Espionage and Sedition Acts, 14 Points, League of Nations, Red Scare, Schlieffen Plan, trench warfare, unrestricted submarine warfare, Verdun, war of attrition.
1920s: Red Scare, Prohibition, Scopes Trial, Sacco and Vanzetti case, Immigration Act of 1924, KKK, Palmer Raids.
Great Depression : "Horatio Alger" myth, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Florida Land Boom, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequence of the Peace, Herbert Hoover, Reconstruction Finance Corp., Federal Home Loan Bank System, fascism, totalitarian communism, welfare capitalism, the New Deal, NRA/NIRA, AAA, WPA, CCC, PWA, CWA, "First 100 Days," Bonus March, SEC, FDIC, Home Loan Corp., Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Francis Townsend, Wagner Act, NLRB, Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), Social Security Act.
Isolationism and Neutrality :  Washington Naval Conference, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Nye Commission, Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937.

Study Questions:
1.  How can you account for the Progressive movement? What solutions did the Progressives offer to the ills of modern society.
2.  Why did the US declare war on Germany? In what ways did World War I endanger civil liberties? Identify the Red Scare.
3. Account for the stock market/economy's boom and then crash in 1929? Desribe how the prosperity of the 1920s was largely an illusion.
4.  Discuss Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression.
5.  Why did Americans favor neutrality and isolation in the 1920s and 1930s? In what ways did policy makers decisions reflect this popular appeal, and how was this largely an illusion? What legislation did congress pass that reflected the neutrality mood?

Potential Essays:
1.  How was American foreign policy in the 1920s and most of the 1930s a reaction to the first world war? Be sure to include discussions of the Washington Naval Conference and the Kellog-Briand Pact as part of your answer. What were th Neutrality Acts and what prompted their passage (be specific on each count)?

 

2.  Discuss the coming of the Great Depression. What brought on the Great Depression? Your answer MUST include an identification of all of the following: The stock market crash, the Florida land boom, interlocking banking and corporate structures, as well as agricultural issues. What were the world-wide responses to the Great Depression? What was the US's response both before and after Franklin Roosevelt took office? Discuss the New Deal. What were the major programs and what were they designed to accomplish? Identify each of the major critics of FDR and the New Deal. What were their ideas? Finally what was the legacy of the New Deal?