Unit 7— BOOM & BUST THE ROARING 20S AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION (1920s-1930s)

Stuff to Know

Unit Lessons

• • • • 1-Reversion: Business & Political Climate of Roaring 20s (Ch 20) 2-A Little Party… Social & Cultural Climate of Roaring 20s (Ch 21) 3-How Low Can You Go—The Great Depression (Ch 22) 4-Happy Days are Here Again—FDR & New Deal (Ch 23)

Possible Written Response Qs

• • • Explain how the decade of the 20s was a reversion to past business practices and a reactionary period.

Assess the New Deal… its effectiveness at dealing with the Great Depression and how it permanently altered America.

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Ch 20—Business & Politics of 20s

Docs: Nativism (domestic actions) Isolationism (foreign policy) Communism & Red Scare IWW (Wobblies) & radicals Palmer Raids (targets? Why?) • • • • • Presidency of Calvin Coolidge Coolidge Quotes about Business Pro-Business policies of Reps.

Emergent Industries of 20s Importance of Auto/ Transform America (kids, development patterns, culture, etc.) Sacco a & Vanzetti Emergency Quota Act (1921) and Quota System – intent Rise of KKK (beliefs) • • Sprawl Consumer products, Advertising, Credit, Standards of Living, Trouble (unsustainable!) Reason for decline of Labor Mvt Presidency of Warren Harding • Explain how 20s were a period of “reversion” (business pract) Ohio Gang, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal

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Ch 21—A Little Party… Social & Cultural

Docs: Zeitz Essay,“Roaring 20s” Migration to cities Emergent cities; new ideas City culture/society (Gatsby) Aaron Douglas (Aspects of Negro Life) • Artists: Gershwins, Ella Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Fitzgerald (Lost Gen), Z. N. Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay (poem), Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, etc.

• Prohibition, Speakeasies, G men, Bathtub gin, bootleggers Rise of organized crime Flapper (& liberated woman) Age of radio (3 significants) • • • NAACP Marcus Garvey Gatsby Stereotype… but not for all (most Americans not leading this existence).

Emergence of Pop Culture Harlem Renaissance

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Ch 22—How Lo Can U Go… Gr8t Dep

Docs: DBQ Pack (Hoover, Ford, Editors of The Nation, FDR) Plight of Farmers (even before Great Depression). Why?

• • International Effects of GD Causes of Great Depression (and which one did John Green say was most significant?) McNary-Haugen BILL • Herbert Hoover and his Depression Era policies Downward Econ Spiral (explain) Capitalism & Stock Market Bull & Bear Markets • Impact of GD on American people—Shantytowns/ Hoovervilles, Hobos, Soup Lines Speculation & Buying on Margin Oct. 29, 2929… Black Tuesday Run on Banks Great Depression (employment, • • • productivity-GDP, Prices, • Confidence) • • Dust Bowl Okies (attitudes toward) Dorothea Lange Hoover’s RFC & Hoover Dam Trickle Down Econ Theory Bonus Army

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Ch 23—Happy Days… FDR & New Deal

Docs: FDR & Election of 1932 (new…) • Specific Relief Programs—AAA, TVA, CCC, FHA, WPA (NYA), FERA, OASDI (aka SS) Campaign Song New Deal pledge/ program Brain Trust 100 Days Fireside Chats 3 Goals of New Deal Financial Reform – – – – Bank Holiday Emergency Banking Relief Act FDIC SEC Help for People (explain how it worked) • • • • • • • • Opposition to New Deal & Conservative Backlash. WHY?

Deficit spending Supreme Court Policies Against FDR (FDR’s reaction) Wagner Act (NLRB) Art and Music under New Deal – – American Gothic This Land is Your Land Importance of New Deal (p725) Assess New Deal Ultimate GD remedy