HIST 102: Chapter 20 Reading Guide

Give Me Liberty! An American History Vol 2 Brief Edition

Instructions

This reading guide is designed to help you understand and answer the Review Questions found on Page 642. This assessment also verifies your active reading of Chapter 20. For each question below, please follow these steps:

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Review Question 1

On Page 614, (Under the "A New Society" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "During the 1920s..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did consumerism and the idea of the "American way of life" affect people's understanding of American values, including the meaning of freedom, in the 1920s?

Review Question 2

On Page 616, (Under the "The Farmers' Plight" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Nor did farmers..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Which groups did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s and why?

Review Question 3

On Page 617, (Under the "The Decline of Labor" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "With the defeat..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did business practices and policies lead to a decline in union membership in the 1920s?

Review Question 10

On Page 619, (Under the "Women's Freedom" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "If political..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

In what ways did the ideas about (and the reality of) proper roles for women change in these years?

Review Question 4

On Page 620, (Under the "The Republican Era" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Government policies..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

President Calvin Coolidge said, "The chief business of the American people is business." How did the federal government's policies and practices in the 1920s reflect this understanding of the importance of business interests?

Review Question 9

On Page 627, (Under the "The Fundamentalist Revolt" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Many evangelical..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What issues were of particular concern to fundamentalists in these years and why?

Review Question 5

On Page 629, (Under the "Closing the Golden Door" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The Klan's..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Who supported restricting immigration in the 1920s and why? Why were they more successful in gaining federal legislation to limit immigration in these years?

Review Question 6

On Page 631, (Under the "Mobilizing for Tolerance" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "In the face..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Did U.S. society in the 1920s reflect the concept of cultural pluralism as explained by Horace Kallen? Why or why not?

Review Question 7

On Page 637, , find the sentence beginning with the words: "California and..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Identify the causes of the Great Depression.

Review Question 8

On Page 640, , find the sentence beginning with the words: "Strongly opposed..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What principles guided President Hoover's response to the Great Depression, and how did this restrict his ability to help the American people?