Week 5 Assignment
Please type complete sentences to answer the following questions. Please include the number of the question you are answering and dont forget to put your name on the paper. Remember the answers are based on the reading but must be in your own words.
Note: All the question are from the text book.
Read the text book Chapter 37 Over Here: The Home Front 1917- 1920 in The American Past: A Survey of American History, Volume II: Since 1865
1) What happened to the US government during World War I? How did it change?
2) What led to the epidemic of race riots during this period?
3) What is the nineteenth amendment? Why did Wilson support it?
4) What happened to Wilsons Fourteen Points? Why?
Read the text book Chapter 38 Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919- 1923 in The American Past: A Survey of American History, Volume II: Since 1865
5) Why is this era called the Roaring Twenties? Why is this name somewhat misleading?
6) Describe the Red Scare.
7) In what ways was Prohibition really more than about just alcohol? Why didnt Prohibition work?
Read the text book Chapter 39 The New Era When America Was a Business 1923- 1929 in The American Past: A Survey of American History, Volume II: Since 1865
8) Why did Al Smith lose the 1928 election?
9) What does buying on margin mean?
10) Describe the Stock Market crash.
Read the text book Chapter 40 Hard Times in The American Past: A Survey of American History, Volume II: Since 1865
11) Describe the difficult conditions of many Americans. How does this period compare to today?
12) What was the Dust Bowl?
13) How did Hoover view the social responsibilities of the Federal government?
