APUSH TEST PAPER 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔"Lost Generation" - ✔✔Group of American intellectuals who viewed America in the
1920s as bigoted, intellectually shallow, and consumed by the quest for the dollar; many
became extremely disillusioned with American life and went to Paris. Earnest
Hemingway wrote of this group in The Sun Also Rises.
✔✔Jazz Age - ✔✔Term used to describe the image of the liberated, urbanized 1920s,
with a flapper as a dominant symbol of that era. Many rural, fundamentalist Americans
deeply resented the changes in American culture that occurred in the "Roaring 20s."
✔✔Prohibition (18th amendment) - ✔✔Often referred to as "the Noble Experiment", this
piece of legislation banned the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic
beverages. Its roots can be found in the temperance movement of the late 1800s
Progressive Era. It became increasingly unpopular and was eventually repealed.
However, it did lower the amount of drinking within the United States.
✔✔National Origins Act - ✔✔Very restrictive immigration legislation passed in 1924,
which lowered immigration to 2 percent of each nationality as found in the 1890 census.
This lowered immigration dramatically and, quite intentionally, almost eliminated
immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.
✔✔Scopes Trial - ✔✔1925 Tennesse trial where teacher John Scopes was charged
with teaching evolution; Darrow = defense; Bryan = prosecutor; demonstrated religous
fundamentalism vs. modernism
✔✔Harlem Renaissance - ✔✔Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem
that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black
life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of
this movement.
✔✔Election of 1928 - ✔✔Herbert Hoover/republican ("A Chicken in Every Pot") vs. Al
Smith/democrat (first catholic to run for president) -> Hoover Wins
✔✔Stock Market Crash - ✔✔Event in which the value of stock fell so low which caused
people to be left with huge debts; banks ran out of money and closed, people lost jobs;
beginning of Great Depression
✔✔Bonus March - ✔✔Event when nearly 17,000 veterans marched on Washington in
1932, to demand the military bonuses that they had been promised; this group was
eventually driven from their camp city by the U.S army; increased the public perception
that the Hoover administration cared little about the poor.
, ✔✔New Deal - ✔✔Series of policies instituted by Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors
from 1933to 1941 that attempted to offset the effects of the Great Depression on
American society. Many policies were clearly experimental; in the end it was the onset
of WWII, and not these policies, that pulled the U.S out of the Great Depression
✔✔President Franklin D. Roosevelt - ✔✔President that had a "new deal" philosophy;
developed Democratic coalition; made government large and activist; made presidency
the most powerful branch; established welfare state; used Keynesian economics;
increased reputation of business; revitalized American spirit
✔✔"Hundred Days" - ✔✔Period that Congress received and enacted 15 major
proposals from FDR; established CCC, TVA, AAA, emergency banking act, NRA, and
other organizations that had the purpose of combating socioeconomic problems
✔✔National Recovery Administration (NRA) - ✔✔This organization provided for a
system of Industrial Self-regulation under federal supervision
✔✔Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) - ✔✔This organization put limits on crop
production in order to raise prices on agricultural goods to "parity" farm prices; farmers
paid to limit production
✔✔Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - ✔✔This corporation insured
individual bank deposits
✔✔"Second" New Deal - ✔✔The period of FDR legislation that focused on "trickle-up" /
"soak the rich" economics, Keynesian economics, increased regulation of business, and
contained anti-business rhetoric
✔✔Social Security Act - ✔✔The act passed by FDR that provided for immediate relief
for poor elderly; national Old-Age and survivors insurance, a shared federal-state plan
of unemployment insurance, and public assistance programs (AFDC)
✔✔Wagner National Labor Relations Act - ✔✔The act that guaranteed the right of labor
to bargain through unions of their own choice, prohibited employers from interfering with
union activities, and set up a National Labor Relations Board.
✔✔Works Progress Administration (WPA) - ✔✔The federal jobs program established by
FDR
✔✔Rural Electrification Administration (REA) - ✔✔The administration that provided
electricity for rural America; utility co-ops
✔✔Huey Long - ✔✔Immensely popular governor and senator of Louisiana; provided tax
favors, roads, schools, free textbooks, charity hospitals, and improved public services
GRADED A+
✔✔"Lost Generation" - ✔✔Group of American intellectuals who viewed America in the
1920s as bigoted, intellectually shallow, and consumed by the quest for the dollar; many
became extremely disillusioned with American life and went to Paris. Earnest
Hemingway wrote of this group in The Sun Also Rises.
✔✔Jazz Age - ✔✔Term used to describe the image of the liberated, urbanized 1920s,
with a flapper as a dominant symbol of that era. Many rural, fundamentalist Americans
deeply resented the changes in American culture that occurred in the "Roaring 20s."
✔✔Prohibition (18th amendment) - ✔✔Often referred to as "the Noble Experiment", this
piece of legislation banned the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic
beverages. Its roots can be found in the temperance movement of the late 1800s
Progressive Era. It became increasingly unpopular and was eventually repealed.
However, it did lower the amount of drinking within the United States.
✔✔National Origins Act - ✔✔Very restrictive immigration legislation passed in 1924,
which lowered immigration to 2 percent of each nationality as found in the 1890 census.
This lowered immigration dramatically and, quite intentionally, almost eliminated
immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.
✔✔Scopes Trial - ✔✔1925 Tennesse trial where teacher John Scopes was charged
with teaching evolution; Darrow = defense; Bryan = prosecutor; demonstrated religous
fundamentalism vs. modernism
✔✔Harlem Renaissance - ✔✔Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem
that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black
life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of
this movement.
✔✔Election of 1928 - ✔✔Herbert Hoover/republican ("A Chicken in Every Pot") vs. Al
Smith/democrat (first catholic to run for president) -> Hoover Wins
✔✔Stock Market Crash - ✔✔Event in which the value of stock fell so low which caused
people to be left with huge debts; banks ran out of money and closed, people lost jobs;
beginning of Great Depression
✔✔Bonus March - ✔✔Event when nearly 17,000 veterans marched on Washington in
1932, to demand the military bonuses that they had been promised; this group was
eventually driven from their camp city by the U.S army; increased the public perception
that the Hoover administration cared little about the poor.
, ✔✔New Deal - ✔✔Series of policies instituted by Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors
from 1933to 1941 that attempted to offset the effects of the Great Depression on
American society. Many policies were clearly experimental; in the end it was the onset
of WWII, and not these policies, that pulled the U.S out of the Great Depression
✔✔President Franklin D. Roosevelt - ✔✔President that had a "new deal" philosophy;
developed Democratic coalition; made government large and activist; made presidency
the most powerful branch; established welfare state; used Keynesian economics;
increased reputation of business; revitalized American spirit
✔✔"Hundred Days" - ✔✔Period that Congress received and enacted 15 major
proposals from FDR; established CCC, TVA, AAA, emergency banking act, NRA, and
other organizations that had the purpose of combating socioeconomic problems
✔✔National Recovery Administration (NRA) - ✔✔This organization provided for a
system of Industrial Self-regulation under federal supervision
✔✔Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) - ✔✔This organization put limits on crop
production in order to raise prices on agricultural goods to "parity" farm prices; farmers
paid to limit production
✔✔Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - ✔✔This corporation insured
individual bank deposits
✔✔"Second" New Deal - ✔✔The period of FDR legislation that focused on "trickle-up" /
"soak the rich" economics, Keynesian economics, increased regulation of business, and
contained anti-business rhetoric
✔✔Social Security Act - ✔✔The act passed by FDR that provided for immediate relief
for poor elderly; national Old-Age and survivors insurance, a shared federal-state plan
of unemployment insurance, and public assistance programs (AFDC)
✔✔Wagner National Labor Relations Act - ✔✔The act that guaranteed the right of labor
to bargain through unions of their own choice, prohibited employers from interfering with
union activities, and set up a National Labor Relations Board.
✔✔Works Progress Administration (WPA) - ✔✔The federal jobs program established by
FDR
✔✔Rural Electrification Administration (REA) - ✔✔The administration that provided
electricity for rural America; utility co-ops
✔✔Huey Long - ✔✔Immensely popular governor and senator of Louisiana; provided tax
favors, roads, schools, free textbooks, charity hospitals, and improved public services
