HUS Review Questions: (Without Notes)

HUS Great Depression and New Deal Review Questions:

1. How did the prosperity of the 1920s give way to the Great Depression? 2. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of urban and rural Americans? 3. Why did Hoover’s policies fail to solve the country’s economic crisis? 4. What weaknesses existed in the US economy before the stock market crash? 5. How did the Dust Bowl cause a shift in migration to California? 6. Why did some men find their role in the family diminished after the Great Depression? What were some of the different ways men reacted to this? 7. Do you think the depression changed peoples’ goals and expectations? Why/why not? 8. What demands did the Bonus Army make, what was the reaction? 9. What was the CCC? How did it help individuals as well as the country? 10. Define collective bargaining and sit –down strikes. How effective did workers find these methods? 11. How effective were the first 100 days in relieving the GD -give specific examples 12. What major issues did the second new deal address? 13. How did men and women during the GD find relief through popular culture? 14. Choose any program during the New Deal and explain how it was an example of relief, recovery, or reform 15. Why did both the right and left protest the new deal? 16. Why did the New Deal programs place a greater emphasis on employing men than women? 17. How did the creation of a welfare state change America? 18. Assess FDR as a president – pros and cons 19. Defend or argue this position - The New Deal was really more of a conservative movement than a political shift to the left

Format Reminder:

1. 35 MC questions 2. written response – pick 3 problems and assess the effectiveness of their remedies (aka the new deal agency (ies) most directly associated with it) 3. written summary of Commanger and Flynn OR question about role of movies during the age 4. New Deal agencies will be spelled out and abbreviated 5. you will not be asked a question like :

“Was the CCC a means of: a. reform b. recovery c. relief d. all of the above”