1. What changes in American society prompted the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and religious fundamentalists? How did these groups express their outrage?
2. What were the domestic and foreign causes of the Great Depression? How did President Hoover respond to the economic emergency?
3. What were the main programs of the New Deal's "Hundred Days"? What were their goals? Evaluate the success of the various programs.
4. In what ways did World War II contribute to the growth of the federal government? How did it foster what historians now call the military-industrial complex?