Unit 8 EQ

  1. How did new technologies change the U.S. in the 1920s?

  • invention of the radio and automobile advancements

  • growth of automobile industry led to lack of diversified economy that dominated the market

  1. How was life in urban and rural American different in the 1920s?


  1. How did nativism influence the U.S. in the 1920s?

  • caused racial tensions and led to the acts passed to restrict immigration into the US

  1. What caused the Great Migration and what were its consequences?

  • labor demand during WWII, as the US focused more of weapons production

  • caused increased racial tensions but also cultural promotion: Harlem Renaissance

  1. What characterized the presidential administrations of the 1920s?

  2. What factors caused the Great Depression?

  • risky trades

  • big corps were incentivizing people to buy stocks with loans

  • lack of diversity in the economy

  1. How did Hoover respond to the Depression? To what extent was he successful?

  • Hoover believed that the gov should have minimal interference in the economy, wants the people to sort it out themselves

  • does try to establish some trust in economy with Volunteerism- asked companies to keep wages high and less firings

  • also established an organization that would loan money to agri workers and corps but did not use all of its allotted money

  1. How did FDR respond to the Depression?  To what extent was he successful?

  • increases gov interference in economy: funds money to stimulate economy, fund gov projects completed by jobless ppl

  • AAA: gives farmers money to grow less crops, crop prices go up

  • starts regulating banks: reviewing them and weeding out the weak, inefficient banks

  • Glass Steagall Act: ensures people in the economy


  1. What were the voices criticizing FDR’s response to the Depression? How did that criticism affect FDR?

  2. What is the legacy of the New Deal?

  • established safety nets for the people with insurance + social security

  • increased federal participation in the economy

  1. Why did the U.S. shift from isolationism in the 1920s and 30s to eventual involvement in World War II?

  2. How did the U.S. use “Total War” strategies during World War II?

  3. What were the social effects of World War II on the U.S.?