1. In what year was the first radio commercial broadcast?
2. Claude McKay realistically portrayed the struggles of African American intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance in what popular novel?
3. In 1930 Congress passed the _______ Tariff, which raised tariff rates, even though many economists objected to it.
4. Between 1930 and 1932, the amount of Americans out of work increased from 4 million to _______.
5. In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution changed the date for presidential inaugurations to January 20. Before that, it was _______.
6. The "_______," which began in 1931, involved two young white women in Alabama accusing nine black young men of rape.
7. What industry was the third largest in the United States in 1938, behind only steel and automobile production?
8. What country did Italy invade in May 1935, causing the U.S. Congress to pass the Neutrality Act?
9. The most destructive bombing raid of World War II occurred on the night of February 13-14, 1945, in what city?
10. Of the 110,000 Japanese Americans evacuated by the U.S. government into internment camps, about how many were U.S. citizens?
1. U.S. society of the 1920s produced a number of cultural clashes. Identify three distinct particular cultural clashes that occurred in the United States during the 1920s and describe the details of each clash. For each example, be clear in identifying the clash, in describing each side that existed within the clash, and in explaining how the various sides clashed with one another.
2. Explain the causes and consequences of the Great Depression. Identify three distinct specific factors that contributed to the emergence of the Great Depression and explain how each factor helped produce the Great Depression. Then, identify three distinct ways in which individuals suffered during the Great Depression. For each, identify who in particular tended to suffer and explain how they suffered in this way during the Great Depression.
3. The course textbook suggests that "the first New Deal, from 1933 to early 1935, focused mainly on recovery and relief for the poor and unemployed" and that "no single ideological position united all the programs, for Roosevelt ... was a pragmatist who was willing to try different programs" (714). Identify four distinct specific programs established during the first New Deal and clearly explain how each focused on recovery and relief for the poor and/or the unemployed. Then, explain how the four examples you have chosen embodied different views on how to provide relief and recovery. Show how these four examples, when examined together, demonstrate the implementation of programs that varied on the role of government in addressing the situation, on the specific kinds of activities upon which they concentrated, and on the methods used to provide recovery and relief.
4. While World War II has gained a reputation for high levels of support, U.S. involvement in the war was not without dispute. Initially, the United States took a position of neutrality, much as it had with World War I. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the position of neutrality with which the U.S. began World War II by indicating two distinct reasons in favor of the United States joining World War II in its early years and two distinct reasons against the United States joining World War II in its early years. Then, identify two distinct specific developments that occurred before the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor that made a course of neutrality increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain. Clearly explain why and how each development made neutrality so difficult.
5. The course textbook states that "no American cities were bombed and the United States was never invaded, but World War II still influenced almost every aspect of American life" (742). Identify four distinct specific aspects of U.S. life that changed during World War II as a result of U.S. involvement in the war. Clearly explain how each aspect of U.S. life changed during the war.